Ever since the in 2023 after eight seasons, viewers have wondered if would return to TV. Now, she's weighing in. and her mom, Karen E.
Laine, co-hosted the HGTV show, which followed their business, Two Chicks and a Hammer, Inc. Laine retired from the company in 2019 but continued to appear on the show. Starsiak Hawk answered several fan questions in the June 3 episode of her podcast, including the one on every fan's mind: Would she take part in another TV show if the opportunity presented itself? “I would love to," she said.
"I would love to if I could find a way to do it with a balance that was healthier." Starsiak Hawke said that she "loved for the most part making TV when it was fun, when it was good," but that the two seasons of "Good Bones" were "really, really hard emotionally and mentally, financially and physically." "I was starting to feel the weight was all on me at that point — the financial weight, the weight to hit the deadlines.
It was all really wearing on me. I was trying to come up with a way to move forward that was going to be more sustainable for me," she said. She said the "stakes" of the show were unbearably high: “It was all my money.
It was my family’s money. It was my business’s success.” This might make for TV that "rates well," but it got to the point where she "couldn't handle" it.
"The reality was that I was getting to the point where I couldn't handle the stakes, I couldn't handle the projects, I couldn't handle the risk," she said. ".
