Christina Haack and Ant Anstead prove their years-long feud is behind them as they celebrate their son’s seventh birthday.
The duo, who were married from 2018 to 2021, both shared Instagram posts dedicated to the little boy, while Haack, 43, shared a carousel of sweet photos.
‘Happy 7️⃣ birthday Hudson!! My sweet boy, I adore you and your kind soul!!” she began in her caption.
‘Smart, adventurous, helpful, crazy and a real Virgo when it comes to organizing. I am so lucky to be your mom!! We love you.’
Anstead, 47, proved the couple is back on good terms when he complimented the HGTV reality star in the comments.
The television host, who is currently dating Renee Zellweger, posted on Sunday: ‘We’re doing great! X’
Christina Haack and her ex Ant Anstead appeared to put their years-long feud behind them as they posted birthday messages for their son Hudson. “My sweet boy, I adore you and your kind soul,” Christina wrote
Anstead responded to ex-wife Haack’s Instagram post on Sunday: “We’re doing great! X’
Ant Anstead shared his own tribute to his seven-year-old son with partner Renee Zellweger
Heather El Moussa, who is married to Haack’s other ex-husband Tarek El Moussa, also said: “Happy birthday dear Hudson… We love you.”
On his own profile, Anstead shared a video of moments with Hudson from infancy until now.
‘Hudzo, you were born with a light! An unmistakable GLOW around you! You radiate with a beautiful mix of fun, sass, love and so much kindness!’ he wrote in the caption.
‘You are an extremely brilliant boy and it is a privilege to watch you grow and blossom. I love being your dad! Congratulations on your 7th birthday Hudzo. Keep GLOWING! X’
Anstead’s current partner of five years, Renee Zellweger, is featured in the footage from his video review.
In July, Anstead praised his actress girlfriend Bridget Jones in a rare interview about Jeremy Vine on 5.
The couple is typically private, but in love Anstead, in an unguarded moment, called her “the best person I’ve ever met.”
He told Vine that she is “absolutely brilliant” and a “genius.”
Haack wrote: ‘Smart, adventurous, helpful, stupid and full of Virgo when it comes to organization. I am so lucky to be your mom!! We love you’
The pair met when they worked together on Celebrity IOU: Joyride.
Anstead rarely comments on his relationship with Zellweger, previously telling People: “It’s something I don’t really want to talk about too much.
“It’s still very early in our relationship and I don’t want to put any pressure on that.”
Still, the couple has gone from strength to strength and in 2024, Anstead admitted that he sometimes forgets his girlfriend is famous.
“I mean, at the end of the day it’s going to be examined microscopically, I’m sure, but I don’t really think about that,” he explained on the Jeremy Vine On 5 show.
“She’s so incredibly normal, and I often forget she’s famous.”
Last year, Renee gave a rare insight into their romance in a joint interview with Hugh Grant for British Vogue.
‘I live in Southern California, near San Diego. Because that’s where my colleague lives and his son,” she said.
Anstead, who is also father to two older children Amelie, 21, and Archie, 18, from a previous marriage to ex Louise, gushed about Hudson in the caption of the video post
Anstead is also father to two older children – Amelie, 21, and Archie, 18 – from a previous marriage to ex Louise.
His divorce from Haack played out in the public eye, with Anstead later confessing that their behavior at the time was “shameful.”
They waged a contentious custody battle for years, with Anstead at one point even trying unsuccessfully to gain full custody of their child.
Now the pair are on opposite sides, with Anstead admitting on an episode of The Flip Off that it was ’embarrassing’ that it took years for them to finally become amicable.
‘The relationship we have now is really very important. And it has been a transformation,” he explained.
‘As parents it has taken us four and a half years to get to that point, which is really shameful.
“You and I will be forever connected because we have a child. So at the end of the day, I have to stand by the mother of my child.”
Anstead and Haack’s divorce was finalized in June 2021; in April 2022, Anstead filed for full custody of Hudson, accusing his ex of spending only a few days a month with their son, using him for social media influence and endangering his medical safety.
That same day, a judge denied his bid, noting that Anstead failed to give Haack timely notice and failed to demonstrate that Hudson was a critical risk in the current shared custody agreement.
Through her legal team, Haack called the claims that she endangered Hudson and was completely absent from his life “false allegations” that “shocked” her.
They settled their custody battle in December 2022, agreeing to continue to have joint legal and physical custody of their son.
