Despite their divorce, Christina Hall and Tarek El Moussa are continuing to enjoy time together.
In the realm of Hollywood exes, it's not often you see such camaraderie as exhibited by Christina Hall and Tarek El Moussa, former spouses and Flip or Flop co-hosts.
But their recent Instagram video with their respective partners, Josh Hall and Heather Rae El Moussa, has taken their amicable relationship to new heights, while also serving as a witty response to online chatter.
Since their divorces, Christina, 40, has tied the knot with realtor Josh, 43, while Tarek, 42, found love with the former Selling Sunset star. The video, shared on Instagram, features Heather and Christina side by side, playfully introducing themselves using each other's names, clad in matching black tops and ripped blue jeans, poking fun at the notion of Tarek's "type."
The lighthearted banter continues as Christina quips, "Must be all that bleach," to which Tarek chimes in, "Well, I guess it is confusing," addressing the ongoing speculation surrounding his romantic preferences.
Christina and Tarek share two children, daughter Taylor, 13, and son Brayden, 8. Christina is also mom to her son, Hudson, 4, from her marriage to Ant Anstead. As for Heather and Tarek, they celebrated their son Tristan's first birthday, adding another joyful milestone to their blended family.
From a very public divorce and harrowing health struggles to a new marriage and welcoming his third child, Tarek has experienced a rollercoaster of life events in less than a decade. The reality star says these experiences make him the perfect author for a self-help book.
"I've needed a lot of self-help, you know? Throughout my life, there's been a lot of struggles. People don't know what I've been through, and that's why this book is important," he told ET in February, running down the list of complications that cropped up in his life, including being diagnosed with ADHD, a misdiagnosis of bipolar disorder, anxiety issues, sleep issues, substance abuse, thyroid cancer and testicular cancer.
He continued, "I was hooked on opioids for a year because of a back surgery. So those are a lot of problems that I faced in my life, and you know, today, I'm thriving, right? I'm happier, I'm healthier, I'm doing better than I ever have, so I was able to get here by just putting in the work and just taking it one step at a time. And there are so many people out there in a tough spot, and they can get out of it. They just need hope, right? Hope is the keyword, so I really feel like Flip Your Life gives people hope to start building a better future."
Tarek says that he wrote Flip Your Life to provide the book he needed when he was 20 years old. "When I was writing this book, I was thinking about 20-year-old Tarek like, what was the book I needed when I was at rock bottom? So I wrote the book that I would have needed."
Reflecting on that period of his life, Tarek recalled how he was "just drowning all day, every day, with stress, anxiety, worry, [wondering] what [will] the future look like? What am I gonna do? Where am I gonna go? Why am I gaining so much weight? Why can't I stop drinking? Why can't I sleep? Just all these anxieties that threw my life completely out of control."
"The day I graduated high school, I was thriving. I was in great shape. I was an athlete, and less than a year later, I completely destroyed my life," he shared. "I gained 60 pounds, my clothing wouldn't fit [and] I became a depressed alcoholic. I stopped hanging out with my friends. And I was really lucky to get out of it."
After residing in what Tarek calls a "halfway house" for several months after his split from Christina, he says he intended to work on his marriage. But in 2017, Christina moved on with Ant, whom she was married to from 2018 to 2021.
"[In] 2017, I was on my own, I was going through a divorce, I didn't have my family with me and that was not the life I dreamed of," Tarek told ET. "That is not the life I wanted. So, by accepting the fact that I had that life and I was not happy with that life, it gave me the drive to start rebuilding my life. And today, I'm married to Heather. [I] love her so much, right? I have Tristan, he's turning one already, I can't believe it. Today, I'm living the life that I wanted years ago, right? It didn't just happen. It took work."
Tarek married Heather Rae in October 2021, and the couple welcomed son Tristan Jay in January 2023.
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