Baby star Honey Boo Boo is now all grown up and residing a brand new life at 19
Identified to actuality TV followers as ‘Honey Boo Boo’, the kid star is now all grown up and residing her new life at 19.
Alana Thompson rose to fame on the tender age of 5 after showing on TLC’s Toddlers & Tiaras, which was a actuality sequence centred round little one magnificence pageant contestants.
“A dolla makes me holla, Honey Boo Boo little one,” was her iconic catchphrase which led to spin-off TV sequence Right here Comes Honey Boo Boo in 2012.
As is the case with many little one stars, nonetheless, Thompson suffered difficulties rising up within the public eye.
In 2014, her spin off sequence was cancelled amid controversies surrounding her mum June ‘Mama June’ Shannon. And such troubles are set to be documented in Lifetime’s new biopic, I Was Honey Boo Boo.
You possibly can check out the trailer beneath:
Shannon confronted struggles with substance abuse, and in 2022, Thompson’s sister Lauryn ‘Pumpkin’ Efird was granted authorized custody of her.
The synopsis of I Was Honey Boo Boo focuses the ‘pressured smiles, silent tears and the lingering sense of uncertainty’ confronted by Thompson and her household ‘behind closed doorways’.
Now, Thompson is specializing in her new life as a university pupil learning nursing at Regis College in Colorado, US, as she displays to Individuals: “Wanting again it’s like, ‘Dang, I actually went via all that s**t? That’s loopy’.”
Of her mum, who suffered from a crack cocaine habit, she stated: “I observed one thing was off about her. She began locking her doorways which actually made me suppose, ‘Oh, what’s she doing?’”
Again in 2019, Shannon and her then-boyfriend Eugene ‘Geno’ Doak had been arrested and charged with felony possession of medicine.
“Individuals had been like, ‘I noticed your mama on the information with a busted tooth, strung out,’” she added. “I’m like, ‘Nice, like I didn’t see that too’.”
When it got here to the biopic addressing her and her sisters’ experiences on and off the digicam, Thompson stated the intention of the movie was to not make her mum appear as if ‘the dangerous man’, including: “However I didn’t maintain again and if she will get mad, on the finish of the day it’s the reality.”
After her elder sister gained full custody of her in 2022, Thompson was in a position to refocus on college and graduate a yr later.
“I simply all the time informed myself you understand that you just need to do one thing higher together with your life and larger together with your life than simply being on TV,” the star stated.
“So you have to rise up and go, you have to graduate so you can also make it to varsity and be the nurse that you just need to be.”
She added: “Once I graduate I’ll be the one one in my household with a level. I really like that I’ve persevered previous who folks thought I used to be.”
I Was Honey Boo Boo, which shall be narrated by Thompson, is ready to premiere on Lifetime on Might 17.
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