Mina Starsiak Hawk May Arrive and Leave Early to Family’s Holiday Gatherings to Avoid Flare-Ups Amid Rifts

Mina Starsiak Hawk is still figuring out her holiday plans amid the rift in her family – but revealed she’s come up with a possible solution.

In a new episode of her podcast Mina AF, the HGTV star reveals a candid conversation she had with her father about how her feud with brother Tad Starsiak will affect their reunions during the season.

Mina says she should have “set a boundary” with Tad after he wrote her “some pretty nasty stuff”.

“I gave him so many opportunities in life because of the hard work I put in,” Mina says of Tad, who appeared with her and her mom, Karen E. Laine, on their home renovation series Good bones. “I shared those opportunities, but I never owed them to him. But he really acted like that and treated me like that, and then he said some s— things that ended with ‘shit for shit’.”

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“Usually in my family, we all pull it in and just get down to business and everyone plays nice and then talks … about each other behind their backs,” she adds. “So I thought, ‘I’m going to disrupt the system.'”

But when Mina recently picked up the children from her father’s house, he confronted her about the situation. (She and husband Steve Hawk are parents to son Jack, 5, and daughter Charlie, 3.)

“You need to talk to him,” her dad told her. “The holidays are approaching. Aren’t you just going to come to Thanksgiving? Aren’t you coming for Christmas?”

In her answer, Mina said that “the first time she left him on her father’s doorstep”.

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“I said, ‘Nobody’s telling him, ‘Do the s— right,'” she says. “And therefore I simply will not put myself in such situations. And I would ask you as the head of our family, if it is very important to us that we can all be here together, to jump in. I would be glad if you have some help in this situation, to evaluate it, solve it, make it [Tad] to understand perhaps where he went wrong and how we can return to the place of good.” Mina says she doesn’t think her dad “really knew how to handle” her request.

“But I think that’s the answer,” she continues. What I’m going to tell him is: ‘It’s important to me – my dad is 75 – it’s important to me to spend the holidays with you. They’re limited, so what’s the way my family can be with you and my stepmom and my siblings in a way that I don’t have to sit at the table and pretend I’m okay talking to this person who treated me so badly?”

Although at the time of the podcast, Mina had no clear plans for Thanksgiving or Christmas, she said one strategy would be to get to events early.

“Our Thanksgiving starts at 2 o’clock, I’ll come in at noon and help you get ready, and the kids can hang out,” she says. “And I can help decorate the cookies, or whatever it is. And maybe I’m comfortable staying a little in time [Tad’s] there. And maybe there’s a time when I’m not.”

Tad Starsiak proposed to his girlfriend Anna in the finale of the “Good Bones” series.

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Mina has been open about the tensions between her family members during previous conversations on her podcast, saying she wasn’t “in a good place” with either Tad or her mom.

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In front of something Good bones‘ series finale in October, she reflected on what she wishes she had known before she rose to fame in the long-running renovation series.

“I think I knew … that this was going to be difficult and that it was going to be a challenge to relationships, because when you put something in the spotlight, in a pressure cooker, there’s a chance it could explode,” she said. “And I’m not stable enough myself not to explode sometimes.”

Mina noted that hers was “a whole complicated family organization”, many of whose members were involved in her work and creation good bones, it involves a lot of different personalities and “people with so many different problems, weaknesses, things to learn.”

She added: “I just wish I knew how bad it could get.”

Mine AF is now available for streaming.

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