Heather Rae Young Bio
Heather Rae Young is an American actress, TV personality, glamour and nude model. She was born on September 16, 1987, in Anaheim, California, and has also been credited as Heather Young, Heather El Moussa, and Heather Rae El Moussa. Playboy named her its February 2010 Playmate at 22. Her appearance came during Playboy's contemporary era of international and digital publishing.
Young has enhanced breasts, brown eyes and blond hair. Her measurements are 32-24-33.
Heather Rae Young reached Playboy while building a career from a small Southern California mountain town into the Los Angeles modeling world. Before that transition, she worked ordinary local jobs and later became a licensed esthetician. Modeling remained the ambition that pulled her toward Los Angeles, and a Playboy casting call in 2008 provided the opening she had been looking for.
Her first Playboy work came through test shoots and Cyberclub material, including the Lounge Acts pictorial in 2009. Those assignments led to a Playmate test and ultimately to Hugh Hefner approving her centerfold. Young’s selection placed her in Playboy’s first double issue, capping a relatively rapid progression from casting call to one of the magazine’s most visible monthly features.
Commercial modeling developed quickly alongside Playboy. Young worked across swimwear, lingerie, automotive and fashion campaigns, with clients and brands including Affliction, Calao Swimwear, DSO Eyewear, Carrie Amber, Superstar Swimwear and 7 Til Midnight. Television and film followed, with credits including ’Til Death, Chillerama, The Internship and Love in the Time of Monsters.
A major professional shift came in 2014, when Young obtained her real-estate license. That decision eventually led to the role for which she became widely known outside modeling: appearing on Netflix’s Selling Sunset, the reality series centered on luxury Los Angeles real estate and The Oppenheim Group. She appeared across multiple seasons before reducing her involvement to focus on family life.
Young later expanded her television work into home renovation and property development alongside her husband, real-estate investor and television personality Tarek El Moussa, whom she married in 2021. Their projects included The Flipping El Moussas, The Flip Off and appearances on Flipping 101. In 2023 they welcomed a son, adding family life to a career that had progressed from beauty work and Playboy modeling into real estate and mainstream reality television.
