Selling Sunset star Heather Rae Young, 34, is having the time of her life.
Not solely is the California native starring in certainly one of Netflix’s prime reveals, which paperwork the lives of realtors as they steadiness work-life dramas whereas promoting million-dollar properties to the who’s who in Hollywood, however she’s additionally having fun with her new marriage to HGTV’s Flipping 101 star Tarek El Moussa.
However, as she advised The Sun, none of this will have occurred if it weren’t for her previous stint as a Playboy Playmate.
“It catapulted my career, it changed my life, it was the most defining moment in my life,” the fact star mentioned about her expertise posing nude for Playboy. “I don’t regret anything I’ve ever done. I’m proud of my life. Everything I’ve done has got me to where I am today.”
Though it has been over a decade since she’s posed for Playboy, Young, who’s since taken the final title El Moussa in her private life, admits that working for such a famend publication gave her the arrogance to alter her profession and focus solely on actual property.
“Modeling and acting transitioned me into real estate. I’ve met a lot of contacts through my modeling, acting career — a lot of wealthy people, celebrities,” she mentioned. “I channeled that into real estate and using my contacts.”
Turns out, it was definitely worth the effort. The star mentioned she “sold over nine million dollars worth of real estate” within the first 4 months of getting into the trade.
Heather and Tarek’s lavish October wedding ceremony will probably be showcased in all its glory when Discovery+ airs Tarek & Heather: The Big I Do on Dec. 16, which will even give viewers a glimpse into her life that they seldom see on Selling Sunset, together with their household dynamic at dwelling together with her two step-kids: daughter Taylor, 11, and son Brayden, 6.
“I never even questioned taking Tarek’s last name. It solidifies our love and our relationship, plus it helps that my husband has a famous last name too. I’m proud to be an El Moussa,” she mentioned, later including, “I’m still trying to figure out how I’m going to tell the kids I did Playboy.”
The couple is already making preparations to increase their household. While Young advised E! News Daily Pop that their “life is already crazy,” she’s selecting to stay “open” about having extra children.
“We’re going to freeze embryos first, go from there and then see what happens,” she mentioned. “We’re raising two kids. I’m already a mommy. So I’m like, well, why not have just one more?”
“It would be a big decision,” she mentioned. “It’s not just something that I want to say, ‘Let’s just see if it happens,'” however relatively, “to create something with him, that’s ours, together … I feel I would regret it if I didn’t.”
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