Tarek El Moussa normally focuses on revamping
houses, but recently he’s been pouring his energy into a more personal
renovation: himself. After last year’s messy, public split from wife (and HGTV
cohost) Christina, the Flip or Flop star realized he needed to slow down.
“It was tough at the beginning,” he admits in the new issue of Us Weekly, but the experience taught him to communicate and made him a “better person and better dad” to daughter Taylor, 6, and son Brayden, 18 months. The 35-year-old California resident tells Us what buoys him — and where he goes from here.
Check Out Hollywood’s Friendliest Exes Looking back, El Moussa has realized that as life events were occurring one after the next, he and his ex, 33, didn’t take the time to step back and discuss everything that was happening. “It was a lot at once. Doing a TV show, building companies. I had cancer, and then I hurt my back, then she had fertility problems,” he explains. “I think it was just too much, going too fast and a lack of communication.”
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