SHE’S the kid pageant star who rocketed to fame after showing within the actuality sequence Toddlers & Tiaras.
Alana “Honey Boo Boo” Shannon retired from the sweetness pageant circuit at seven-years-old as she was too busy together with her different tasks to compete.
Honey Boo Boo retired from competing in magnificence pageants when she was seven-years-oldCredit score: Instagram
The well-known teen, who goals of turning into a neonatal nurse, has now graduated from facultyCredit score: Instagram
The 17-year-old has now revealed that she has completed faculty and is planning her subsequent steps into the working world.
Alana beforehand shared that she goals of turning into a neonatal nurse and her mum has cleared up that she received’t be returning to magnificence pageants.
Mama June Shannon penned on Instagram alongside a video of Alana graduating: “One final time she walked throughout the stage.”
She additionally divulged in an unique interview with The Solar final 12 months that the teenager “has been accepted into some faculties”
“Granted, we’ve made a profession out of it when it fell in our lap,” June mentioned. “However I don’t see Alana doing actuality TV on the age of 40.”
Followers had been launched to five-year-old Alana and her now-famous mom on season 5 of the TLC sequence Toddlers & Tiaras.
Her eclectic household and controversial mum meant she landed her personal spin-off sequence, Right here Comes Honey Boo Boo.
However Alana took a step again from the general public eye to give attention to faculty and her goals of turning into a neonatal nurse.
“Regardless of all of the challenges and curveballs that had been thrown my means, I nonetheless did it and I by no means gave up,” she penned in an emotional Instagram submit.
“There have been closing dates once I simply needed to surrender and simply say f**okay it, however at no level did I quit… I simply saved going.”
The teenager revealed she acquired “choked up” at her highschool commencement ceremony in Georgia, US.
“I used to be so glad yesterday for myself and my future self,” she continued.
“I can’t wait till I can inform everyone sooner or later about this present day, particularly my future children.
“I’m not gonna lie, I take a look at my diploma now and it nonetheless feels somewhat surreal for me to be graduating highschool.
“However I can lastly say, ‘I DID IT’ and if no person is pleased with me, I’m pleased with my rattling self.”
Followers thought the concluding sentence of her submit was a dig at Mama June, who has had a strained relationship together with her children in recent times.
In 2019, Mama June deserted her household for her troubled ex-boyfriend, Geno Doak.
June has 4 daughters: Anna, Jessica, Lauryn “Pumpkin” Efird, and Alana.
In an episode of Mama June: Household Disaster, her newest actuality present that Alana seems on, Pumpkin and Mama June reunited after not seeing one another for months.
The household matriarch admitted she had executed hundreds of {dollars} price of medication a day.
She offered her deep south dwelling at an enormous loss for quick money in October 2019, telling her daughter she solely did it as a result of her “behavior was $2,500 a day”.