The child star, dubbed ‘Honey Boo Boo’ by reality TV viewers, is now 19 years old and living a new life.
Alana Thompson rocketed to prominence at the age of five after participating in TLC’s Toddlers & Tiaras, a reality show about children in beauty pageants.
“A dollar makes me holler, Honey Boo Boo child,” was her popular tagline, which inspired the spin-off TV show Here Comes Honey Boo Boo in 2012.
Thompson, like many other child stars, struggled to adjust to life in the spotlight.
In 2014, her spin-off series was canceled due to controversy involving her mother, June ‘Mama June’ Shannon. Such difficulties are expected to be addressed in Lifetime’s forthcoming biopic, I Was Honey Boo Boo.
Shannon struggled with substance usage, and in 2022, Thompson’s sister, Lauryn “Pumpkin” Efird, was given legal custody over her.
The summary of I Was Honey Boo Boo focuses on Thompson and her family’s ‘forced grins, silent sobs, and lingering feeling of unease’ ‘behind closed doors.’
Thompson is now concentrating on her new life as a college student studying nursing at Regis University in Colorado, as she tells People: “Looking back, it’s like, ‘Dang, I really went through all that s**t?'” “That is crazy.”
She claimed about her mother, who was addicted to crack cocaine, “I realized something was different about her. She began closing her doors, which made me wonder, ‘Oh, what is she doing’?”
In 2019, Shannon and her then-boyfriend, Eugene ‘Geno’ Doak, were arrested and charged with felony narcotics possession.
“People were like, ‘I saw your mama on the news with a busted tooth, strung out,'” she told me. “I’m like, ‘Great, like I didn’t see that too.'”
When it came to the biopic addressing her and her sisters’ experiences on and off the camera, Thompson stated that the film’s objective was not to make her mother look like ‘the terrible guy,’ adding:
“But I didn’t hold back, and if she gets mad, at the end of the day it’s the truth.”
Thompson was able to refocus on school and graduate one year later when her elder sister won full custody of her in 2022.
“I just always told myself, you know, that you want to do something better with your life and bigger with your life than just being on TV,” the celebrity claimed.
“Get up and go; graduate so you can go to college and be a nurse.”
She said, “When I graduate, I’ll be the only one in my family with a degree. I appreciate that I’ve persevered above what others believed I was.” Honey Boo Boo, a former child celebrity, is now 19 years old and living a new life.
The child star, dubbed ‘Honey Boo Boo’ by reality TV viewers, is now 19 years old and living a new life.
Alana Thompson rocketed to prominence at the age of five after participating in TLC’s Toddlers & Tiaras, a reality show about children in beauty pageants.
“A dollar makes me holler, Honey Boo Boo child,” was her popular tagline, which inspired the spin-off TV show Here Comes Honey Boo Boo in 2012.
Thompson, like many other child stars, struggled to adjust to life in the spotlight.
In 2014, her spin-off series was canceled due to controversy involving her mother, June ‘Mama June’ Shannon. Such difficulties are expected to be addressed in Lifetime’s forthcoming biopic, I Was Honey Boo Boo.
Shannon struggled with substance usage, and in 2022, Thompson’s sister, Lauryn “Pumpkin” Efird, was given legal custody over her.
The summary of I Was Honey Boo Boo focuses on Thompson and her family’s ‘forced grins, silent sobs, and lingering feeling of unease’ ‘behind closed doors.’
Thompson is now concentrating on her new life as a college student studying nursing at Regis University in Colorado, as she tells People: “Looking back, it’s like, ‘Dang, I really went through all that s**t?'” “That is crazy.”
She claimed about her mother, who was addicted to crack cocaine, “I realized something was different about her. She began closing her doors, which made me wonder, ‘Oh, what is she doing’?”
In 2019, Shannon and her then-boyfriend, Eugene ‘Geno’ Doak, were arrested and charged with felony narcotics possession.
“People were like, ‘I saw your mama on the news with a busted tooth, strung out,'” she told me. “I’m like, ‘Great, like I didn’t see that too.'”
When it came to the biopic addressing her and her sisters’ experiences on and off the camera, Thompson stated that the film’s objective was not to make her mother look like ‘the terrible guy,’ adding:
“But I didn’t hold back, and if she gets mad, at the end of the day, it’s the truth.”
Thompson was able to refocus on school and graduate one year later when her elder sister won full custody of her in 2022.
“I just always told myself, you know, that you want to do something better with your life and bigger with your life than just being on TV,” the celebrity claimed.
“So you’ve got to get up and go; you’ve got to graduate so you can make it to college and be the nurse that you want to be.”
She said, “When I graduate, I’ll be the only one in my family with a degree. I appreciate that I’ve persevered above what others believed I was.”