Heather Rae El Moussa is setting the record straight on her social media behavior — and why she’s chosen to stop posting photos of her 14-year-old stepdaughter, Taylor. “We have to respect her wishes,” Heather, 37, exclusively told Us Weekly on Monday, September 23, when discussing her partnership with Visit Anaheim alongside husband Tarek El Moussa . “I get shunned because it’s like, ‘You never put Taylor on anything.
You only post the boys.’ Well, she’s a teenager. She has her own voice and she’s at school all the time and the boys are easy.
They don’t mind being in photos.” Heather married Tarek, 43, in 2021 and the couple expanded their family with the birth of their son, Tristan, in January 2023. (Tarek also shares two kids — Taylor and son Brayden, 9 — with ex-wife Christina Hall , whom he divorced in 2018.
) “I get all this hate because I don’t post [Taylor],” Heather continued. “I’m like, ‘Well, I’m respecting my stepdaughter’s wishes.’” Tarek added, “She won’t let us.
That’s the answer.” There are some special occasions, however, when Taylor does make an appearance on social media. While celebrating her 14th birthday on Sunday, September 22, Taylor received heartfelt messages from Christina, 41, Tarek and Heather online.
“Me and Taylor, we just have this special bond and I think it comes from the years that we really, really spent together as close as possible: 2016, 17,18, 19,” Tarek explained to Us . “She.