The following article contains references to child abuse, mental illness, and substance misuse.
“I would go wait tables and she would literally go lawyer some stuff.
We would come back and say, ‘This is how much we’ve got.
Let’s go lay some tile!'”
Mina Starsiak Hawk had a nightmarish childhood
Mina Starsiak Hawk’s childhood was far from ideal.
The reality star has described the severe neglect she allegedly suffered at the hands of her parents.
During an episode of her"Mina AF"podcast, Hawk opened up about her childhood trauma.
“As a kid, I had so many fun adventures,” she said.
Moreover, her parents put Hawk and her siblings at risk of harming themselves.
Accordingly, she said that her trauma has ultimately helped her become a better parent to her own kids.
So the addition of the Lexapro was really, really helpful for me."
However, this resulted in severe SSRI withdrawal.
After several months, the withdrawal symptoms subsided.
Her cause of death was later confirmed as ethanol poisoning.
Just about six months later, Mina welcomed her daughter, Charlie.
“Beatrice has been with me for most of my adult life,” she wrote in the caption.
“She was my girl.
Always by my side for a snuggle.
If you saw me, she was there; my shadow.
Life will be just a little less sweet without her.”
Sadly, Sophie did succumb to her illness.
“Nowhere in my brain would today end without Sophie, but it has,” she wrote.
“Much like B, she’s saved me far many more times than I saved her.
She’s with her sister and with Stefie gone one year, she’s with her.
But at one point, it appeared that the pair were in the midst of patching things up.
In 2021,Mina Hawk dished to The List about her relationship with her mom.
“When we were filming full-time, you don’t have time to go to your corners.
However, in time, the pair drifted further apart.
In a 2020 interview withPeople, Mina opened up about her fertility struggles while filming “Good Bones.”
She was highly distraught at the news.
“It feels like your body is failing you and letting you down,” she explained.
“I couldn’t even figure out how to open one of the packages.
It was terrifying.”
In time, the IVF treatments worked and Mina fell pregnant with her second child.
But the trauma of her infertility remained.
“I actually don’t have any income, unless I do something to create it …
It’s a very unsure time for me.”
The reality star explained that she was promised that the work opportunity was locked in.
“Turns out, it’s possible for you to unlock things that are locked,” she said.
“There was tons of problems.
“For me, it’s just always existed,” Mina said.
“And so it’s not this like, ‘What the heck happened to my life?’
It’s always been very, like, functional.”
“We definitely were at each other more,” Mina said.
“Just because it lowers your inhibitions.
You’re like, ‘I’m gonna say this thing and pick the fight.”
Accordingly, the couple no longer drinks alcohol.
“It was uncomfortable,” she said.
“I felt like an alien, because I had drains to collect this bloody goo.
It’s like you’re peeing and having your period all at the same time.”
She also couldn’t stand due to her tummy tuck causing pain and tension in her abdomen.
Thankfully, the number was traced to another state, so Hawk was not in immediate danger.
But there were also tensions on set between Hawk and her co-star Cory Miller.
“I am positive that there are things he feels like I did to him.”
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