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Trashy Reality TV, Book Proposal & Cockpit Parenting: Catching Up with Bushwick’s Viral Mom for Hire

Remember the Bushwick mom who went viral with her idea of providing "mom services" to young people? She was offered to franchise, have a reality show, and even made her life into a TV sitcom.

Trashy Reality TV, Book Proposal & Cockpit Parenting: Catching Up with Bushwick’s Viral Mom for Hire

Trashy Reality TV, Book Proposal & Cockpit Parenting: Catching Up with Bushwick’s Viral Mom for Hire

Remember the Bushwick mom who went viral with her idea of providing "mom services" to young people? She was offered to franchise, have a reality show, and even made her life into a TV sitcom.

Trashy Reality TV, Book Proposal & Cockpit Parenting: Catching Up with Bushwick’s Viral Mom for Hire

It was 2015 when a Bushwick-based entrepreneurial mom of two adult sons decided to start a business. She would offer “mom services” to the residents of Bushwick and beyond, dubbing her business “Need a Mom.” An enormous media frenzy as well as many (mostly misguided) opportunities followed, and a lot has changed in Nina Keneally’s life during those two years.

Nina first contacted Bushwick Daily in October 2015 , because like she said, “if it didn’t work in Bushwick, then it wouldn’t work anywhere” as Bushwick was…

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