Gina Bruno Knopov

Being your mom is the greatest joy life could ever bring. It’s also the reason I haven’t finished a hot cup of coffee in 2 years, and I wouldn’t have it any other way! Motherhood did something to me I didn’t see coming. Made the table bigger, the food more intentional, the love genuinely impossible to contain To every mama happy Mother’s Day🍅

The most joyful weekend for mamas 🥂🍼 More Latching On coming soon…

Join us May 29th for an evening floral workshop in the backyard of PORTA Brooklyn — create your arrangement, stay for bites and drinks, and leave with a new pair of @dolcevita . Tickets in bio. x

Latching On Round 2 🦢 The mama energy in that room on Saturday was something I will not stop thinking about. This series exists because the community felt missing in this season of life. If you’ve been on the other side of early motherhood, you know that feeling in your body. I wanted to build the thing I was looking for. We doubled our number. We sold out. I am in awe. Thank you to every single person who walked through that door and made it what it was. Open, honest, and real. Whether you came curious or overwhelmed, excited or just trying to make it through the morning, you were exactly who this was for. There were familiar faces and brand new ones. Newborns and toddlers. So many tight hugs. Moms helping moms. We had two incredible panels. The first was for us, the moms, and the enormous shift we go through. Sex after baby. Romance after baby. Finding your new normal. My biggest takeaway: have sex before the date night, then go out and actually enjoy each other. Thank you Rachel Baker (@mylbdo ) and Julia Huff (@repropsychnp ) for holding that conversation with so much honesty and warmth. The second panel was all about feeding the baby. From first bites to toddler negotiations. Thank you, Nicole Silber (@nsilbereats ) for helping every person in that room let their shoulders down a little. I closed things out with a cooking demo covering the three stages. Purees, BLW, and the toddler meal Mars actually eats. We tasted, we talked, it felt like the best kind of mess. The most unbelievable bites were made by @mandelacocores , owner of @getwelcomehome . And a huge, full heart thank you to @littlespoon and @eatsimpli for believing in this from the beginning and helping bring it to life. Truly beyond grateful. Thank you to all the brands who filled our suitcase of a gift bag with so much love: @fridababy @bobbie @littlespoon @eatsimpli @robpeetoomnyc @holapikora @nyssacare @beautyforofficial @miraclemama @drinkdona This was never meant to be perfect or polished. Just real. A room to feel a little less alone in all of it <3 Photo by @minhanhnguyenn & @iana_guzhyk Thank you @sydneyportigal @giuliaricciotti @mayaojalvo @isabellafalero @alexaportigal

There are many dinners for mothers. This one was for the woman underneath. Last Friday, @littlespoon and I hosted ‘We Do A Lot’ at Frank’s House — five courses, cocktails made with Little Spoon purees, and a table of women who were loud, kind, and unfiltered. There were tears. There was laughter. There was absolutely no talking about nap schedules. It was a night off. A real one🍸 Thank you to @flowersbyford for making our dining room feel like a magical touchgrass moment Photography by @kelseycherry

Nobody warned you about the sex after baby. Nobody warned you about the feeding guilt. Nobody warned you about the version of yourself you’d have to get reacquainted with. Latching On: Full Plate is a morning built around all of it. Two honest panels bringing together reproductive psychiatry, pediatric nutrition, and the questions you have but haven’t said out loud yet. We cover you first. Your body, your identity, your relationships, your physical self. Then we cover your baby. Solids, BLW, allergen introduction, and the noise around all of it. Then we’ll have a live food demo with Gina in the kitchen covering easy recipes to make for your toddler. Saturday, May 2nd · @bonstudionyc · Doors 10:30am Babies welcome 🍼 🪿Early bird tickets $30 for 48 hours. Regular $50. Link in bio!!! P.S. The goodie bags alone are worth showing up for.

Unpopular opinion: January 1st is not the beginning of anything. Not for me. By December 31st I am completely wrung out and the last thing I need is a vision board. I bought into the champagne and the intentions for years and then one day I just didn’t anymore. My new year starts in April, when the light comes back and New York finally commits to being alive again. I stopped performing a reset that was never mine to begin with. Full post is up on Substack, link in bio 🤟🏼 When does your year actually begin?

currently ascending from this royal moment. @marthastewart48

March 🥞🌞🍸🌷🥩🍼🧈

Introducing Well Worn, our new series for Boyville, highlighting women entrepreneurs in our community who are building something meaningful and living fully in their work.⁠ ⁠ In our first feature, we spend time with Gina Bruno Knopov, a chef, the founder of Frank’s House, and podcast Campers. Gina’s journey has been one of constant evolution, balancing the roles of a chef, entrepreneur and a mother to her daughter, Mars. This intersection of career and motherhood has led to her newest project, Latching On—a panel series dedicated to the journey of feeding mama and baby. Her next panels, focusing on the "first bite" and baby-led weaning, are coming up on May 2nd. ⁠ For the modern working woman, life is a beautiful, busy blend of roles, requiring a wardrobe that can keep up. Boyville is femininity reimagined through function—derived from the enduring strength of classic workwear to provide utility details and modern proportions. Whether Gina is hosting an intimate chef dinner or preparing for her next community panel, Boyville offers pieces with the effortless strength and durability needed to live fully in every pursuit.⁠ ⁠ "Motherhood has quietly opened up a new path for me... Food and motherhood started blending together in my work the same way they blend together in my actual life. Out of that came Latching On. This is a new medium and a new space for me. I am so glad it did!"⁠ ⁠ Shop Gina’s Boyville edit and read the full conversation at the link in our bio.⁠

Eggs & Legs🌞 Today’s plate🥑 - Coconut maple & hemp chia pudding - roasted golden beets - Feta scramble eggs - Leftover cabbage, corn, cucumber, and mint salad - avocado with EVOO & zaatar Today’s Layers👖 Pants: @jcrew Tank: @boden Top Shirt: My Nannys <3 A passed-down favorite Headband: $4 on @amazon Bag: oldy but goodie Shoes: @bobochoseswoman Robe: @brooklinen Veggie sash: gifted by @maris_bonura

Hi, I’m Gina. I have a deeply strange, completely unmanageable love for donkeys, so you can imagine the state I was in on this particular day🫏