Heather Rae El Moussa reveals the one thing stopping her from having more kids
Heather Rae El Moussa wants more kids — but her husband isn’t quite on board yet.
The 37-year-old former “Selling Sunset” star was recently asked on the “Scrubbing In with Becca Tilley and Tanya Rad” podcast if she would be interested in having another child with her husband, Tarek El Moussa
“That’s a sensitive topic for me,” Heather Rae El Moussa exclaimed on the episode, released March 27.
“Obviously I have my stepkids and I’m so in love with them, but having your own baby — oh my gosh,” she continued, per People. “It’s so hard to explain it until you go through it.”
The luxury real estate agent is already a mother to her 2-year-old son Tristan, whom she welcomed with Tarek El Moussa in 2023.
She’s also a stepmother to her husband’s 14-year-old daughter Taylor and 9-year-old son Brayden James, both of whom he shares with his ex-wife Christina Haack.
“I never wanted to leave (my son). I want to be with him all the time. I still do,” Heather Rae El Moussa said of Tristan. “He is the light of my life. It makes me so happy. I’m like, ‘How could I not want more?’”
“But my husband is very much done,” she added.
The couple met through mutual friends in July 2019 and dated for a year before Tarek El Moussa proposed during a boat trip to Catalina Island in 2020, according to People.
They tied the knot in October 2021 before welcoming Tristan in January 2023.
“It’s interesting because when we first met, we talked about not having kids of our own,” Heather Rae El Moussa admitted on the “Scrubbing In” podcast, per E! News.
“I wanted to get married, but I had never met anyone that I would want to have children with,” she added.
Things changed once the couple got married — and Heather Rae El Moussa started forming a connection with her husband’s kids.
“We fell in love and you have this deep connection with someone, and then I loved being a stepmom so much,” she explains. “I just wanted to experience it on my own and have my own.”
Now that she has gotten a taste of what motherhood is like, she says she wants more before it’s too late.
“I’m turning 38 this year. So, for me, it’s kind of like now or never in a way,” she said on the podcast. “Not because you can’t have babies older, but I don’t want to be 40 having babies still ‘cause it’s a lot.”
“It takes up a lot of your time, a lot of your life, and the kids are my priority over myself,” she continued. “So I want to do it, get my body back. And it took a long time. It’s hard.”
Despite the disagreement with her husband, which Heather Rae El Moussa described as “hard,” the couple have been “talking through things” with a therapist at least twice per month.
“We never went to therapy together,” she explains on the podcast, “which I wish we would have started it sooner because I think it’s such an amazing thing and it helps communication.”
This isn’t the first time Heather Rae El Moussa has been asked about having a second child — though not much has changed since.
“You know my answer, come on,” she responded in an exclusive interview with E! News in September. “We’d have to talk daddy into it.”
Tarek El Moussa was a little more optimistic back then, but still noncommittal.
“Who knows? You just never know what’s gonna happen,” he told E! News at the time. “I finally feel ready to be a father in my 40s. It just took a while.”
