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Flip
Flop?
or
Meet Reality TV’s Favorite
Real Estate Couple,
Tarek & Christina
El Moussa
by Stephanie B. Mojica
T
he hit reality show “Flip or Flop”
has not only changed Tarek El
Moussa’s life, it literally saved
it. “2013 was a life-changing year,” El
Moussa said.
He and his wife Christina are prolific
real estate “flippers” and host a related
reality show on HGTV. One of his view-
ers — a registered nurse — noticed a
lump on El Moussa’s neck, which turned
out to be thyroid cancer. Fortunately it
did not spread beyond his neck and he
considers himself to be well on the road
to recovery.
“The worst part was the radioactive
iodine treatment where I was confined
away from my family,” El Moussa said.
“Today I feel better, my energy is lower,
but I won’t let that slow me down. I will
keep chasing my dreams.”
At age 32, El Moussa never expected
to host a popular television show and
battle cancer. It’s a drastically different
lifestyle from seven years ago when
their brokerage business dried up as
a result of the market shakeup, forcing
them to reinvent themselves. In 2010,
they took a huge gamble and started
flipping homes. “We went from selling to
flipping,” he recalled. At first, the couple
was forced to significantly downscale
their lifestyle, trading in a $6,000 a
month mortgage for a $700 a month
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