‘Good Bones’ Star Mina Starsiak Hawk Reveals Why She Quit the HGTV Show

HGTV star Mina Starsiak Hawk is opening up about her decision to walk away from Good Bones. Her home renovation show came to an end in October 2023 after eight seasons. In a recent episode of her podcast, she said she’d reached a point where it just wasn’t possible for her to continue filming the show and maintain her mental health. 

Mina Starsiak Hawk says the last seasons of ‘Good Bones’ was ‘really, really hard’  

Good Bones followed Hawk and her mother Karen Laine as they renovated homes in Indianapolis. The show – and Hawk – had a massive following. And at first, Hawk was thrilled with the experience of making her HGTV series. 

“I have loved, for the most part, making TV,” Hawk said on Mina AF. 

Yet there were challenges. 

“The last two seasons were really, really hard, emotionally and mentally, financially and physically as well,” she said. 

“The weight was all on me at that point … it was really wearing on me,” she added. 

The ‘stakes were so high’ in the later seasons of ‘Good Bones’ 

Hawk realized that something had to change. 

“I was trying to come up with a way to move forward that was more sustainable for me,” she said. 

One issue was Hawk’s financial commitment to the increasingly costly and ambitious renovation projects. 

“The stakes were so high,” she said. “It was all my money. It was my family’s money. It was my business’s success … It was all real, and it was getting to the point where I couldn’t handle the stakes, and I couldn’t handle the projects, and I couldn’t handle the risk.”

 “I don’t think I’ll ever be able to fully explain or have people understand the situation and what it was doing to me,” she said. 

Would she do another HGTV show?

Though making Good Bones was tough at the end, Hawk said she had no regrets about doing the show. She even says she’d be up for another series, but only if the fit was right. (Last year, she announced that a two-part special focusing on her renovation of her lake house would to air on HGTV later in 2024.)

“I would love to [make another show] if I could find a way to do it with a balance that was healthier,” she said.  

“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,” Hawk added. 

“There’s not enough money in the world to put me in the place I was a year ago, it was that bad,” she said. “I think that’s very hard for people to understand.”

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