Heather Rae Young Opens Up About IVF Journey With Tarek El Moussa: He and His Kids Would ‘Sing With Me and Hold My Hand’

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Getting real. Heather Rae Young and Tarek El Moussa opened up about the Selling Sunset star’s IVF journey, including how the Flip or Flop alum and his children have helped her through it with a touching gesture.“I must say, having Tarek and Taylor and Brayden there for moral support was everything,” the reality star, 34, exclusively tells Us Weekly, explaining that she wants to “involve [the kids] throughout the whole process.” She adds: “They’d sing with me and hold my hand and stand in the bathroom with me.”El Moussa, 40, — who shares daughter Taylor, 11, and son Brayden, 6, with ex-wife Christina Hall (née Haack) — “would just hug me and say, ‘It’ll be over soon,’” Young recalls to Us.

She notes that her husband would comfort her on the days she “didn’t even wanna get out of bed” by saying, “It’s not you. It’s just the hormones.”“If I didn’t have him, I don’t know how I would have gotten through it,” the Netflix star shares.She elaborates: “Because if I was on my own — there’s a lot of ups and downs and it’s emotional and the hormones and pricking yourself every single day with shots and going in for blood work,” noting she’s “already scared to get my blood taken” to begin with.Young calls herself “lucky” to receive the “moral support” from El Moussa and Taylor and Brayden, who she lovingly refers to as “my kids.”The couple have been candid about their back-and-forth decisions on trying for a third child.

The realtor, who tells Us she has “low fertility,” opened up about wanting to freeze embryos in November 2021, one month after she and the Tarek’s Flip Side alum tied the knot.

She has proceeded to document her IVF journey via Instagram and revealed last month that she was “pausing” the treatments for now.“We were