Heather Rae Young Reveals How She Really Feels About Tarek El Moussa's Past With Christina Haack

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From House Beautiful

Since 2016, HGTV's Tarek El Moussa and Christina Haack have proven that it is possible to have a healthy relationship with your ex. Not only do they co-parent their two children Taylor (10) and Brayden (5) together, but they continue to work together on their hit show Flip or Flop. For fans who have followed El Moussa and Haack's story from the beginning, it's inspiring to see two individuals who faced a very difficult and public divorce still get along and even joke around with one another on set. However, I'm sure we can all agree that having a good relationship with your ex can make current and future partners feel a little uncomfortable.

Take Selling Sunset star Heather Rae Young for example. Young, who is currently engaged to El Moussa, took to Instagram on Thursday to respond to fans' questions about what it's like to be engaged to a formerly married dad-of-two. She explained that she was hesitant at first to get involved with El Moussa. "In all honesty, I wanted to cancel the first date I had set with Tarek," she wrote. Her reasoning wasn't because of his past marriage with Haack, though. She explained: "Not because of anything I had heard but just because I was at a point in my life where I was so over the guys in L.A. and was just expecting the worst."

⁣However, Young decided to give El Moussa a chance because something about their first encounter felt different—and promising. "His past wasn’t even an issue in my mind. I actually loved that he and his ex were able to have a healthy relationship for the kids and that mattered more to me than his past," she noted.

For background, Young and El Moussa met in July 2019—three years after El Moussa and Haack publicly announced they were splitting. When Young and El Moussa went on their first date that summer, Haack was married to now ex-husband Ant Anstead and pregnant with their first child.

Young assured fans that when she's with El Moussa all she cares about is him and her soon-to-be stepchildren. She invited her followers to ask her more questions in the comments in the post.

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