Background and career
Christina Meursinge Haack (born July 9, 1983) is an American real estate investor and TV personality. She co-starred on HGTV's show Flip or Flop (2013–2022) alongside Tarek El Moussa and her own shows Christina on the Coast (2019–2025), Christina: Stronger by Design (2021) and Christina in the Country (2022).
Christina Meursinge Haack was born in Anaheim, California. She has a sister, Carly, who is ten years younger. She went to school in southern California and graduated from Canyon High School in Anaheim, California in 2001 and began working in the real estate industry after graduating from San Diego State University.
In 2005, she first met future husband and business partner Tarek El Moussa while the two were working as real estate agents at Prudential, where they worked until 2008. The couple ran the real-estate agency Tarek and Christina: The El Moussa Group in Orange County, California. The husband-and-wife team sold real estate in the southern California area. When the housing market plummeted after the October 2008 stock market crash, their real estate business suffered. The El Moussas went from living in a $6,000-per-month house to a $700-per-month apartment in just a few years. In 2010, the El Moussas, along with their business partner Pete De Best, bought their first investment property in Santa Ana, California for $115,000, selling the property for a profit of $34,000. The trio continued to flip houses, expanding their real-estate investing business into Arizona and Nevada. The El Moussa Group was dissolved in 2018. The business is now owned by Tarek and Associates, a sole venture of Tarek El Moussa.
In 2011, Tarek El Moussa asked a friend to help him make an audition tape for HGTV. Pie Town Productions expressed interest in the tape. HGTV producers had also noticed the couple's Instagram profile, which featured before and after profiles of several renovation projects. In 2012, HGTV signed the couple to produce a show for the network. In April 2013, Flip or Flop debuted on the network. In a 2014 interview, Haack said, "Each episode shows things that can go wrong, and do go wrong". Flip or Flop ran for ten seasons and the last episode aired on December 1, 2022. In 2017, Haack presented at the Daytime Emmy Awards. In June 2018, it was announced that she would be featured in her own spin-off show, Christina on the Coast. The first episode of season 1 focused on Haack renovating her new post-divorce home, with the remaining seven episodes focusing on her renovating other people's homes. Filming began in the fall 2018, for a spring 2019 premiere. The show's second season premiered on January 2, 2020, on HGTV. On May 15, 2024, it was announced that Haack is set to star in a new competition reality series, The Flip Off for HGTV. Haack appears in the series with ex-husband Josh Hall, former husband Tarek El Moussa and his second wife Heather Rae El Moussa. The show was supposed to follow the two couples in a competition to find, buy, renovate and flip a house for the biggest financial gain. However, upon the first episode release (January 2025), it has been shared online that Josh Hall will not be in future episodes, leaving the competition to be only between the El Moussa couple, and Haack as a solo competitor. In October 2024, Haack and Kylie Wing founded Christina & Kylie, an interior design and home furnishing company.
On April 14, 2020, Haack released a nutrition book, The Wellness Remodel: A Guide to Rebooting How You Eat, Move, and Feed Your Soul, with certified nutritionist Cara Clark. The book includes 60 healthy recipes. In the book, Haack also discusses her health journey, including struggles with infertility, and stress of going through a divorce while raising kids. On July 14, 2020, Haack announced she will be partnering with Spectra Furniture to create a furniture line for the brand. The new line, Christina HOME, debuted in October 2020. In November 2021, Hall created a luxury vinyl flooring line, The Christina Collection, that features 21 different colors and styles.
During her career, Haack has been featured in numerous publications including Good Housekeeping, Elle Decor, Runner's World and the Orange County Register. She has also appeared on the cover of HGTV magazine and People.
