This sank their once-lucrative property business, leaving them in dire financial situations.
Impressively, their first project earned decent profits and encouraged them to audition for a spot on HGTV.
Thanks to this big break,Tarek El Moussa and Christina Hall’s marriageseemed perfect.
They had a beautiful three-year-old daughter, more money, and a new career in the television industry.
Unfortunately, their world came crashing down after a follower spotted a terrible detail just two months later.
He was diagnosed with thyroid cancer and advised to have radioactive iodine therapy to kill the remaining cancer cells.
In an interview withE!
His unbalanced hormonal system and medical issues soon began to strain their marriage.
Unfortunately, they suffered a devastating miscarriage eight weeks in.
She eventually got pregnant again, but had to follow a firm schedule to avoid another miscarriage.
“I had to do one full week in bed.
And since El Moussa was nursing a back injury, he also couldn’t do any heavy lifting.
This turned out to be a costly mistake: “It was too soon for me.
The tension between me and Tarek was high,” she recalled in a separate interview withPeople.
It also didn’t help that the couple worked together round the clock.
They shared a real estate business, children, and a reality television show.
Speaking toPeople, Hall explained the troubling dynamic: “The tension between me and Tarek was high.
We weren’t able to properly communicate anymore.
It got to the point where we weren’t even driving to set together.”
El Moussa also explained how the suddenness of their success became a stumbling block.
“I feel like if we had better communication, we would have had a better relationship.
I think as time went on, as you get busier and busier.
This began a tense search, which probably felt like a manhunt to El Moussa.
“Then a police officer leaning out of the helicopter pointed a rifle at me.
This incident waswhy Christina and Tarek El Moussa finally got divorced.
“I didn’t trust myself to be alone.
That’s how bad I was,” he explained on Jeff Fenster’s podcast (viaInstagram).
Unfortunately, he found out that she was in another relationship and wasn’t interested in getting back together.
“I would say devastating would be an understatement,” he admitted.
Eventually, the couple found love with other people.
Hall met Ant Anstead in 2017 and married him a year later.
