Mama June

I saw an episode tonight and was going to start a thread. Even though most of it is as fake as shit, how can WE continue to put this sorrowful woman on TV? Remember she reunited with a man who her daughter claimed molested her (and doesn't appear on this show). WE gave her a body makeover and a new show. Now you have an entire season of the family trying to get this cow into rehab. Alana looks to be auditioning for My 600 pound life but remains a very sympathetic part of the show. Sugar Bear's wife is the worst actress on Reality TV.

[quote]How absolutely fucking brain dead do you have to be to watch these trashy pieces of shit?

You could ask the same question about all the Kuntdashian shows that have been on the air for the last 12 years.

Alana was such a sweet kid. Also June's second daughter seemed nice. She was always in the background, helping clean the house.

Curious how Alana grows up. Mama June seemed so together before the meth spiral. As does Alana - for now.

See the recent Cops cancellation thread for the pros and cons of exploiting people's pain and watching human tragedy for entertainment. We are the greatest country in the world y'all!

Can we bring back Joe Exotic, please? Now that show had some quality content! Meth, check. Tigers, check. Guns, check. Gays, check. And a murderous arch enemy that already has an alleged body count and quite possibly fed one of her ill-fated deceased husbands to the animals on her property (allegedly), big check right there, good buddy. I still have so many questions about all of the people and their dealings and the shitshow they call a “zoo” or an “organization.”

Let’s have more of that.

I was about to say she looks like hell, but that would hardly be a revelation, would it?

Where did they come from? How did they find them?

I have never watched an episode of this dumpster fire show

R9, there have now been several series devoted to the family. This current one is absolutely the most objectionable.

I did like the original Honey Boo-Boo series on TLC. White trash? Yes. But it was not sad or exploitative IMO. It was kind of fun and the fam seemed to be in on the joke. I remember being fascinated when they got a "hot call" about fresh road kill for supper makings, sketti recipe of noodles with copious ketchups as the sauce, and rabid couponing and resulting booty storage. But that is before Mama June's sad descent into addiction and claims of the eldest daughter of sexual abuse by one of June's boyfriends came to light. The golden ticket of reality show + money seems to have done more harm than good to June, for sure. Remains to be seen the rest of the fallout on poor Alana who has been in custody of her sister for several yrs now (best place for her I am sure). To answer an early question, the origins of this show were Alana (Honey Boo-Boo) being a child pageant star and they developed a "reality" show around her and her fam.

[quote] How absolutely fucking brain dead do you have to be to watch these trashy pieces of shit?

Let alone write about them.

I saw the episode where they staged an intervention because Alana pretended to snort coke on a FB live show. This was a few months after June's arrest for cocaine use. Why the fuck did they allow this on the air? It seemed legit and it was the sort of conversation that belonged behind closed doors, not in front of a television camera.

Wow r13 - I didn't know about that. Crazy!

They're trying to make the aunt the new lead and she brings a camera crew with her each time she tries to "save" June. And poor, dear Jennifer is cast as the villain but can't act for shit. Alana and Pumpkin are just going through the motions at this point.

Pumpkin's baby Ella Efird is adorable and has her own mental life with captions and confessionals. I actually like Jennifer Lamb. I love the entire family as well as their geographic location in the country. They are also doing a great job showing Black business owners. Whenever they need assistance or a service the person is always black, the sheriff, their doctors, dressmakers, etc. I love this show and the family.

How else would these poor people earn a living? Someone needs to put that fat little girl in a fat farm....otherwise by 21, she will weigh 600 pounds. Help her, Dr. Now!

June's reaction to seeing Pumpkin after such a long time seemed genuine. And her entire behavior did totally smack of someone addicted and in denial. I think June definitely has serious problems and for the network to exploit it the way they are is terrible.

Although it's only been alluded to, Sugar Bear is Alana's biological father and he should have primary custody with June out of the picture.

June struck me as the type of woman who would slay anyone who harmed her children, then, she hooked up with her daughter's molester. Then again, that whole child pageant mess is as creepy as hell.

I thought June would be the least vulnerable to the pulls of fame and fortune but that was way off the mark. It's like she gave in to every temptation and it destroyed her.

She would talk about the joys of couponing and even going to the dump to find stuff that someone threw out. Now she's talking about a $3k a day drug habit.

June is a shockingly bad mother. I still remember her telling Dr Phil that when eight-year-old Anna disclosed sexual abuse by June's boyfriend, she told her not to talk about it because it was hard for HER to hear.

As an aside, isn't it surprising she gave her children fairly normal names: Anna, Jessica, Lauryn, Alana? They all have daft nicknames, but the names on their birth certificates are nice enough (except for the misspelling of Lauren). You'd expect them to be called Destiny and Shayla and suchlike.

Tested positive for cocaine again?

I learned how to make spaghetti sauce from her. Mix equal parts ketchup and mayonnaise.

R22, she was crying because she claimed she hadn't used cocaine for weeks. She was using cold medications, which they said could create a false positive. She insisted on getting a blood test and it came back negative for cocaine but her levels of cold medication were dangerously high.

"Alana will get a ton of exposure" *snicker*

She will when she grows into her couch in a few years.

[quote]I actually like Jennifer Lamb.

R16, HOW could you possibly like that sneaky, stupid, selfish cunt? She is ugly inside and out. She couldn't care less about getting custody of Alana—she just wants to further piss off June and her family. The permanent sneer on her whacked-out face does her no favors either.

R26, well, I love her accent, like the epic time she confronted June at her front door - I wish I could impersonate her in that scene for you, and I always thought she was kind of beautiful - I don't know, I just loved her. I see the hateful comments towards her online but I don't feel that way.

Once a country hick, always a country hick.

[quote]Someone needs to put that fat little girl in a fat farm....otherwise by 21, she will weigh 600 pounds. Help her, Dr. Now!

People have tried to help but they blow them off. Dr. Travis Stork on 'The Doctors' tried to teach June healthy recipes and she was given cookware and they gave Alana a bike and talked to them about having Alana lose weight. They checked back with them and June never even took the cookware out of the box and Alana didn't ride the bike.

June just wants to do drugs and be with Geno and see her family when it's convenient and have no responsibility. The one I feel sorry for is Alana, if she turns into a normal adult it will be a miracle.

All that stretched-out skin...

If the producers need a replacement...

Sketti is ketchup and margarine, R11, not just ketchup. And not ketchup and mayo as R23 said. Remember, June is deathly afraid of mayo! June said it was butter, but that's just what they call margarine. They actually heat the ketchup and margarine in old plastic margarine tubs.

Alana and June often appeared in Toddlers and Tiaras and were given a reality show because of that.

It's not just been alluded to R18, It's been confirmed that Sugar Bear is Alana's biological dad.

What’s wrong with sugar bears wife?

[quote]It's not just been alluded to [R18], It's been confirmed that Sugar Bear is Alana's biological dad.

I thought his test(s) came back inconclusive?

[quote]What’s wrong with sugar bears wife?

She's got TCF (Terminal Cunt Face.) Probably because she's a cunt. Also, she has a hitch in her gitalong when she walks, and it looks like she's tying to shake out or dislodge a recalcitrant turd.

Yes, on the show, inconclusive, but later on one of their FB pages, I read that it was determined he was her father.

I meant what was alluded to was that Sugar Bear should have custody. Pumpkin said it on the last episode and it was made very clear that he was Alana's biological father.

And what happened to Poodle, the gay uncle? A while back, he said that he was willing to adopt Alana so she wouldn't be part of the foster system, which he said was a disgrace.

Sugarbear seemed like a good dad. But if Alana gets to choose who to stay with, she's going to pick her sister over her stepmother.

As a Georgian who lived in the county adjacent to Mama June and clan, I can confirm that this area (Wilkinson County) is a nest of incest and ignorance. Where dumb white people go to feel smart. And I've watched a grand total of two episodes of any of these shows since they started. On another note, I got hit up by her brother, Uncle Poodle, on Grindr years ago. He was a swishy queen then, with meth mouth, and when he told me his sister was famous, I laughed out loud at him. Pathetic bunch of white trash losers. Who watches this shit?

[quote] I learned how to make spaghetti sauce from her. Mix equal parts ketchup and mayonnaise.

That's not spaghetti sauce. That's the base for Thousand Island Dressing.

[quote] On another note, I got hit up by her brother, Uncle Poodle, on Grindr years ago.

Actually, Uncle Poodle is Sugar Bear's brother, not Mama June's.

Yes, I hate the fact that I actually know this...

R41, and he claimed that he had a three way with his brother and June. No words.....

Mama June and co. seemed to have stated support for Obama at the time of his election, which if true is a plus in my book. If more southern white trash realized they Could actually be voting in their own self interests... the country would improve as a whole with a true blue wave,

Many of Alana's friends are black although the inner circle of this family is all white. I don't think I've ever seen an Asian on this show.

This is [R39]. You are correct, [R41]. Can you tell how much I know about them?! He certainly noted the connection, I just misremembered. They're all a hot mess.

I should have added, "how much I care"...As to her being a Democrat or Obama supporter [R43], I seriously doubt she's ever voted. But good for her for supporting Obama. I can get behind that. As to that county, Wilkinson, it's the center of the kaolin industry, which is a base element for things like makeup and toothpaste, among hundreds of others. Three or four companies own all the mining rights in the area after stealing all the land from poor black AND white landowners after WWII. The only jobs there are working in that industry and it's a hard labor industry. The "chalk trucks", as the vessels that carry this material out of the mines are known, will run over you on any highway if you're going too slow. I imagine life is bleak for nearly all the people there. The restaurant in the county seat is known as Mae Bob's Diner.

It doesn't matter whether she's a democrat or a republican. People like that don't vote. They're not going to take time away from boozing, drugging, or fucking to go to the polling station to cast a vote. And they're not intelligent enough to even know how to request an absentee ballot.

I'm more than sure she doesn't have one dime left of the monetary fund she built up, since that Geno creature came onto the scene. I don't know what they're paying her for this current show but as soon as that show is cancelled and she's gotten her last check Geno will flee like the wind and leave the old drug addicted thing to her family to deal with.

Mama June became a grandmother at 33. Enough said.

The second daughter is the lucky one. She got away, went to college, seems to be building a life.

She also voiced her support for Hilary Clinton in 2016. Not surprising since she's always been very gay positive.

It's always been known Sugar Bear is Alana's biological father. It was Pumpkin's father who was question. June later claimed Jessica and Pumpkin have the same father. Not so surprisingly he's a sex offender. She apparently got around a lot as a teen (with older men), so who knows.

[quote]It's always been known Sugar Bear is Alana's biological father.

Actually not. Two or three years ago, there was a whole subplot as to whether Sugar Bear was Alana's dad. His cunty new wife, Jennifer, demanded that he get a paternity test, which came back inconclusive. That was how that season ended. But someone upthread says it was later determined that S. Bear WAS the father, although I don't remember ever hearing about that on the TV show.

At least she lost the weight.

Anna, the one who was molested, is attractive and when she cleans up, she can be striking. There may be hope for Alana if she drops 200 pounds.

I didn't know anything about paternity tests. All I know is that on the recent episode, Pumpkin stated that Sugar Bear is Alana's biological dad and that worried her because if he petitioned for custody, he'd almost certainly get it.

I think Alana would still be funny looking if she lost weight. She has the same weird face that mama June has

Wtf are you talking bout? Alana looks 100% like Sugar Bear

R50 I don't watch their newer show on WE, so I wasn't aware of that. My provider doesn't carry WE and it came across as really staged, even for reality TV standards from the little bit I did see of it. So I didn't feel compelled to continue to stream it anywhere. Anyway, I wouldn't be surprised if it was something they just did to pad out the show. June would've probably brought it up when she and Sugar Bear first split up if she'd been with other men around the time Alana was conceived.

We don't have this show but I've seen the kid Alana online - letting your child get like that should be legally recognised as child abuse.

It was a gimmick/plot created for the show, R50. Alana's father was never in question.

The story lines for Sugar Bear and his wife are all fake and they are bad actors

Getting back to the original idea, while everything else is faked, the Mama June drug addiction storyline is real and that's why it's so disturbing. Alana is still a minor and she should not be exploited in this manner.

Will she be a mother by 18 like 2 of her older sisters? The sister who got away and went to college seems to have limited contact with the family...understandably.

Sugar Bear wouldn't know what to do with Alana, he does not want custody, it's just a story line for the show.

Sugar Bear is a crappy dad and he doesn’t want her. They frequently talk about how disappointing and absent he is as a father.

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In some good news, June finally put the meth pipe long enough to get her broken tooth fixed.

And she's wearing a mask and practicing social distancing.

The problem with getting her teeth fixed for free and rewarding her for bad behavior is that she has no incentive to get better. I wish all her kids could extract themselves from her, but Alana is only 14.

How do you know her teeth were fixed for free, R66? When I click on the tooth link, I only see a photo, but no story saying the fixing was free.

r67 I assumed because she is recommending him on Instagram and he is in articles smiling that they made some kind of a deal because June said she is broke.

Happy Juneteenth, everybody!

Fuck Mama June. She left Alana high and dry for Pumpkin to raise when Pumpkin is still a teenager. Let her and Geno go destroy themselves and her kids get away from her.

In a couple of years Alan can get a job and a husband and bring home a baby, you know she will. Wish that tradition could be broken.

Alana will probably get knocked up by the first guy who pays attention to her.

It worked for Anna and Pumpkin!

Unfortunately I have a feeling Alana will get knocked up by a worse man than her sisters did and she will still have to work and not be a stay at home like her sisters. Also I think she figures why try to lose weight, she will get somebody to pay for her weight loss surgery like Mama.

I love Mama June's sister Doe Doe, her daughter and son, and family friend Big Mike. Doe Doe also had extensive dental work done. Great update pics with June, thanks. I always wondered why June couldn't just be with Big Mike...

Doe Doe had to raise June the way Pumpkin now has to raise Alana...

R11 the only episode of Honey Boo Boo I ever saw was the one where they made "ketchusketti". I still have nightmares about it.

But they seemed like nice folks.

Whenever we ponder who watches all this shitty TV - mostly on WE but not exclusively - remember that at least 40% of this country voted for Donald Trump.

Whenever I see Mama June I notice her dark roots and wonder how she would look with a new styled darker cut/color.... I know her brand is blonde but would she look good as a brunette ?