Karen E. Laine embraces her new beginning with a fresh look.
The Good bones star quietly debuted the new hairstyle in a Reels Instagram post on July 24, showing herself in her greenhouse tending to her monstera plants. Although the clip was about a trick she learned to raise her monsters (which involves tomato cages), her new pixie haircut drew the ire of followers in the comments.
Fans were quick to praise her new look. One commented, “Tomato schomato!!! That haircut! How do you like it? It looks great,” to which the HGTV star gave some honest feedback, replying, “I’m not sure I like it this short.”
Laine appeared to style her pixie with some gel as she took fans backstage at the Indiana State Fair, celebrating her “favorite time of year.”
While Laine, a natural reader, has let her gray hair take center stage over the past few years, the home decor star has remained committed to longer lengths and bangs.
The pixie cuts mark a possible symbolic moment for Laine, who is set to star in a new one Good bones spin-off with daughter Mina Starsiak Hawk, despite their feud in the original series.
The mother-daughter duo will star in a special limited season of the popular HGTV series, which ended its eight-season run in 2023.
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The show will focus on their “new beginnings” and feature the two women working on separate projects in different states “as their lives evolve in relation to their time renovating homes in Indianapolis,” according to a statement HGTV shared with PEOPLE.
PEOPLE has debuted an exclusive clip from the season 9 premiere, titled “Mina Takes the Lake,” in which Starsiak Hawk and her husband, Steve Hawk, turn an Indiana lake house into a family vacation for the couple and their two children, Jack, 5, and Charlie , 3. Their main residence is in Indianapolis.
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According to HGTV, the spinoff will see Laine “embark on a new adventure in Wilmington, North Carolina, where she will risk her retirement nest egg” by turning a dilapidated bungalow into her dream beach vacation.
The limited series comes amid a rift between the mother-daughter duo, which Starsiak Hawk discussed in her podcast, Mine AF.
Mina Starsiak Hawk says she’s ‘not in a good place’ with her mom and ‘Good Bones’ co-star Karen E. Laine
Starsiak Hawk revealed in August 2023 that behind-the-scenes tensions between her and her family were growing, saying that she wasn’t “in a good place” with either her mom or brother Tad Starsiak during the show’s final season Good bones.
“We all put on our big baby pants and make ourselves nice … and then we go back to our corners of the universe and talk … about each other,” she said on her podcast at the time, describing the surface of her relationship with her family during vacations or birthdays.
HGTV stars Mina Starsiak Hawk and Karen E. Laine.
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In October, she shared an update on the status of her relationship with her mom: “We’re not talking. We haven’t been for a long time,” she said.
Starsiak Hawk said that since she opened up about their mother-daughter relationship on the podcast, some people have accused her of “not forgiving and forgetting because it’s family, and blood is thicker than water.” She added, “Those people can think what they want, but it’s so complicated.”
Good bones‘ The Season 9 premiere, “Mina Takes the Lake,” will air Wednesday, August 14, at 9:00 PM ET/PT on HGTV.
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