Image Source: Getty / Jeff Kravitz
Tarek and Heather Rae El Moussa’s son’s identify honors all of the generations which have come earlier than him. On Feb. 2, the “Flip or Flop” and “Selling Sunset” stars introduced that Heather gave start to a child boy on Jan. 31. Alongside an Instagram picture of the brand new mother and father holding their son, the couple wrote, “Our child boy is right here 🤍 1.31.23 Mama & child are pleased, wholesome, drained however doing properly. Our hearts are so pleased ❤️.”
Now, simply two weeks later, they’ve confirmed their baby’s identify to Us Weekly: Tristan Jay El Moussa. Explaining the background of the moniker, Heather mentioned, “Tarek was imagined to be named Tristan, and his mother and father ended up naming him Tarek. And then my dad’s center identify is Jay. So it is 4 generations of the center identify Jay.”
The couple’s large information got here after People introduced on July 13, 2022, that the 2 have been anticipating. “It was an enormous shock,” Heather beforehand advised the outlet. “We simply weren’t anticipating this. We had simply gone via IVF. We had embryos on ice. We had a plan. I believe if you least anticipate it and there isn’t any stress in your life, the world simply introduced us what was meant to be. I’m so excited that it occurred like this.”
Heather and Tarek shared quite a few updates about their son all through the previous’s being pregnant, together with Instagram posts that shared their child’s intercourse and a primary glimpse of him in ultrasound pictures. Heather additionally posted a lot of snaps on Instagram displaying off her child bump.
Tarek and Heather first acquired collectively in July 2019, and they acquired engaged after a yr of relationship. The pair tied the knot on Oct. 23, 2021, in an Old Hollywood-style ceremony in Montecito, CA, surrounded by their closest associates — together with Heather’s “Selling Sunset” costars Chrishell Stause, Mary Fitzgerald, Davina Potratz, Emma Hernan, Romain Bonnet, Vanessa Villela, and Jason and Brett Oppenheim — and household.
Prior to their relationship, Tarek was married to his “Flip or Flop” costar Christina Anstead for seven years. The reality-TV star filed for divorce in January 2017. He and Anstead share two children collectively, Taylor and Brayden El Moussa, each of whom now be a part of Tarek and Heather’s rising household collectively.