Bunny Hedaya, 35, says the decision to let her husband’s ex-wife move into their Tampa, Florida home wasn’t nearly as complicated as it sounds. Hedaya, who has documented the arrangement on TikTok as @bunnyhedaya, is married to Harry Hedaya, 58, whose ex-wife Carrie Charles, also 58, needed a place to stay this year while her own home underwent renovations. Instead of finding Carrie a short-term rental, the Hedayas simply opened their door — and the story has drawn plenty of online attention, and some assumptions, ever since.
Harry and Carrie divorced roughly a decade before he and Bunny met, and Harry and Bunny have now been married for 12 years, so the history between the two women predates their relationship entirely. Harry and Carrie share two adult children together, and Bunny and Harry have a 9-year-old son whom they homeschool. When Carrie’s renovation — originally estimated to take around four months — stretched toward a year or more, moving in with the Hedayas became, as the family put it, the practical option, given how frequently everyone’s schedules already overlapped. “It just made sense because we are all over the place,” Bunny says.
The logistics matter here, according to Bunny: the home is large enough that each adult has a separate bedroom and bathroom, and Carrie, who also spends time in Texas and Puerto Rico for work and other commitments, isn’t under the same roof constantly. Even so, Bunny says she anticipated the reaction the arrangement would get once people found out. Online commenters, she says, quickly jumped to assumptions about what three adults sharing a home might really mean — assumptions Bunny has directly and repeatedly pushed back on.
“We’re not sleeping together and you can have a very good relationship with previous partners,” she says, addressing the speculation head-on. Bunny has been clear that the arrangement is not romantic or sexual among the three of them, and she rejects any framing of the household as a throuple. Instead, she describes her relationship with Carrie in far more familial terms: “[Carrie] really feels like an older sister to me,” she says — a bond built, in part, on the two women co-parenting Harry and Carrie’s adult children alongside Bunny and Harry’s younger son.
Adding another layer to the story’s timing, Carrie married someone new about a month before the arrangement drew wider attention — she wed in Italy while still, at least for now, sharing a roof with her ex-husband and his wife back in Florida. Far from complicating things, the family frames it as further proof that the household runs on practicality and genuine goodwill rather than any blurred romantic lines. For the Hedayas, letting Carrie move in wasn’t a leap; it was simply what made sense for people who were already, by Bunny’s account, functioning like an extended family.
Blended and post-divorce households that share space rather than just holidays remain unusual enough to generate this kind of scrutiny, and Bunny says she understood the assumptions were coming before she ever posted about it. But she’s stood by the decision as a straightforward, even obvious, response to a temporary problem — one that happened to involve people who already got along.
The Takeaway
Blended families come in more shapes than the traditional model accounts for, and co-parents who’ve stayed on good terms sometimes find that pooling resources — even a home — solves a real problem without requiring anyone to redefine their relationship. If you’re considering something similar, clear boundaries matter as much as goodwill: separate spaces, honest conversations about how long the arrangement will last, and agreement on how you’ll describe it to kids, extended family and, these days, social media followers. It’s also worth preparing for outside assumptions; unconventional living arrangements tend to invite speculation, and having a clear, consistent answer ready can spare everyone involved a lot of unnecessary explanation. Ultimately, arrangements like this work best when they’re built on practicality and mutual respect rather than pressure to look a certain way to outsiders.
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