Full houses! Tarek El Moussa, Erin Napier and more HGTV personalities balance parenthood with their reality TV careers.
The Flip or Flop star, for his part, became a father in 2010 when his and then wife Christina Hack‘s daughter, Taylor, arrived. Five years later, the duo welcomed son Brayden. The reality stars have been co-parenting their little ones since splitting in 2016.
“It’s important… to make sure you’re on the same page,” the Kristina on the coast star told exclusively Us weekly in June 2018, months after the duo finalized their divorce. “We have a schedule where we make sure that if one of us has to travel, the other picks up before the other. And we just make sure that what’s best for the kids is what we’re going to do.
El Moussa joked in December 2020 that co-parenting was a “walk in the park” compared to breaking up in the public eye. “It doesn’t matter how bad it is,” says de 101 Flipping with Tarek El Moussa star told Us at the time. “It’s better than it was.”
As the California resident continued sell sunset‘s Heather Rae YoungHack married Ant Anstead in December 2018 and nine months later gave birth to their first child, son Hudson. The former couple called it quits in September 2020 and Haack became engaged Joshua room next year.
Since El Moussa married Young in California in October 2021, he and the Netflix personality have been open about their plans to have children of their own.
“We’re going to freeze embryos first, then move on and then see what happens,” said the former Playboy the model told E!’s Daily doll a month after their marriage. “Our life is already crazy. We are raising two children. I’m already mom. So I’m like, ‘Well, why not one more?’”
As for Napier, the Hometown star welcomed daughters Helen and Mae with husband Ben Napier in January 2018 and May 2021 respectively.
The couple, who married in November 2008, keep their girls hidden on social media but have been unafraid to clap back at the parenting police over the years.
“It’s getting harder and harder to accept every opinion from every direction about everything at all times when everyone is in a constant panic,” Erin captioned an Instagram selfie from July 2020. “There’s too much noise. Here’s the thing: we each make a bed and can’t see how far the sheet hangs on the other side. We cannot see what we cannot see. So the best we can do is show compassion for our differences and understand that we will never be able to see all things exactly the same way because our experiences are not the same. It’s nothing to get worked up about. You don’t have to scroll. Have mercy. Show grace.”
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