Selling Sunset’s Bre Tiesi Is ‘Grateful’ for Heather Rae El Moussa

Promoting Sundown costars Bre Tiesi and Heather Rae El Moussa are BFF objectives — by thick and skinny.

“[Heather,] I don’t even know the place to start out!! You immediately grew to become one in every of my closest mates,” Tiesi, 32, wrote by way of Instagram Story on Saturday, September 16, sharing a birthday tribute to El Moussa, 36. “I’m so grateful that I had such a real, compassionate human with me within the hardest yr of my life.”

She continued: “Sending you a lot love and blessing in your birthday.”

Tiesi — who didn’t element why this previous yr has been so troublesome — met El Moussa when she joined the forged of Promoting Sundown in season 6. Tiesi’s actuality TV arrival got here shortly after she welcomed her first child, son Legendary, with Nick Cannon in July 2022. (Cannon, 42, can also be a father to 11 different kids from totally different relationships.)

Throughout Tiesi’s Oppenheim Group debut, she rapidly bonded with El Moussa over motherhood. El Moussa was pregnant along with her first child with husband Tarek El Moussa on the time. Heather and Tarek, who shares two older kids with ex-wife Christina Corridor, welcomed son Tristan in January.

“She was the closest [costar] that I bought to at first,” Tiesi solely informed Us Weekly on Tuesday, September 12. “I spent a whole lot of time with Heather in season 6, so I like her. I am keen on her, and we had been actually a pair months aside [at the] similar half in our lives. I believe it was additionally actually cool and useful to her as a result of there was a whole lot of issues I want individuals would’ve informed me. So, it could have scared her a little bit bit, however I needed to give her the actual [truth about postpartum].”

Heather, in keeping with Tiesi, was “completely” grateful for the candid postpartum recommendation. “Even after, she’s like, ‘Lady, you had been proper,” Tiesi quipped to Us. “She’ll be texting me at 3:00 within the morning as a result of I’m already up. And she or he’s like, ‘Lady, I’m crying proper now.’ I’m like, ‘Me too, it’s high-quality.’ So it [is] a extremely good help system.”

Whereas Tiesi gushed about watching her pal as a brand new mother, she admitted that it was exhausting to movie season 7 with out Heather. (The Flipping El Moussas star beforehand claimed that she wasn’t requested again for many of the season even after her maternity go away had ended.)

“Oh, yeah [I missed her.] I imply, I like Heather and we [are] so shut,” Tiesi mentioned on Tuesday. “I imply, she is part of [season] 7, however simply the dynamics are totally different as a result of I really get to hang around with all people a little bit bit extra, and I’m not at dwelling with a new child.”

Tiesi’s first season noticed her regularly defending her non-monogamous relationship with Cannon, which made the general expertise troublesome. “I believe it was simply I’m already sleep-deprived, and I’m arguing or defending myself or simply making an attempt to be in an entire new state of affairs,” she theorized. “So, I believe a whole lot of it was simply [that] I used to be too drained to cope with something.”

For season 7, Tiesi was “ additional alongside [in her] postpartum” journey and felt “a little bit bit extra human.”

“I believe I simply began to get a little bit extra snug, to be sincere,” she shared with Us. “And I actually bought to bond with the women much more in 7 than I did in 6. So, I believe that dynamic exhibits a little bit bit extra [of] my persona, which is what I actually felt wasn’t proven an excessive amount of in 6. I used to be a little bit bit extra protection mode [at the time.]”

With reporting by Christina Garibaldi