Mina Starsiak Hawk Says She Misses “Good Bones”: 'Most of My Adult Life Was Spent Making the Show'

"I miss the real work. The fun. The pranks. The amazing relationships," the HGTV star wrote on Instagram

Mina Starsiak Hawk is reflecting on how her long-running HGTV series changed her life.

In a series of Instagram Stories posted Sunday, Oct. 13, she shared her responses to fans' questions, including one that asked whether she misses filming Good Bones.

"I grew up making Good Bones," she wrote. "I started in my 20s. I turn 40 this year. Most of my adult life was spent making the show."

"I miss the real work," she continued. "The fun. The pranks. The amazing relationships. The experiences I got to have that I never would have had if not for the show. 100% I miss it."

The original run of the series, in which Starsiak Hawk and her mom, Karen E. Laine, renovated Indianapolis homes, wrapped in October 2023. A three-episode spinoff premiered in August and focused on "new beginnings" for the mother and daughter as they embarked on separate projects in different states.

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In the first episode of the limited series, Mina, who shares two children — son Jack, 6, and daughter Charlie, 4 — with husband Steve Hawk — transforms an Indiana lake house into a retreat for her young family.

In the second and third episodes, Laine renovates a fixer-upper in Wilmington, N.C., to create her dream beach house. While she talked about retiring there on the show, she put the property on the market two weeks ago.

Mina previously revealed on her podcast, Mina AF, that tensions existed between her and her family during the original show's final season, which aired in 2023. She said she wasn't "in a great place" with either Laine or her brother Tad.

In October 2023, she said of her mom, "We do not talk. We haven't in a long time."

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In June, Mina shared on her podcast that she had started to feel like the "weight" of the show was falling on her during the final two seasons of its initial run.

"The stakes were so high," she said. "It was all my money. It was my family's money. It was my business's success."

The home renovation star launched her company, Two Chicks and a Hammer, with Laine in 2007. Her mother stepped back from the company in 2019 but continued to appear on Good Bones alongside Mina and their team.

Mina added that the show's episodes typically featured a "huge before and after with these huge stakes."

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"That is what this amazing show was built on and it was all very real," she said. "And the reality was that it was getting to a point where I couldn't handle the stakes and I couldn't handle the projects, and I couldn't handle the risk."

Mina said that agreeing to do another show would require a "healthier" balance.

She said someone suggested a show idea that "leans back into the older Good Bones model, maybe working with some of those people again."

"I just think it would be a really bad decision for me, like, mentally and emotionally, let alone financially, to kinda get back in that place," she said.

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