Youtube daily bit Jan 30 2017

Alana "Honey Boo Boo" Thompson made her first claim to fame by hyping her "go go juice"

on Toddlers and Tiaras.

She took her sassy Mountain Dew and Red Bull-fueled antics all the way to a starring role in her

own hot mess reality show hit, Here Comes Honey Boo Boo.

"This is not my first rodeo here people."

Her three older sisters, Anna, Jessica, and Lauryn — affectionately dubbed "Chickadee",

"Chubbs", and "Pumpkin" by their Mama June — were also along for a wild family ride.

"Mama!"

At the time, whole gang seemed destined for a future in the "Redneck Olympics," but four

years after their sensational television debut — and their scandalous series cancellation

in 2014 — you won't believe what these sisters are up to now.

Here come the sisters

When fans first met Anna in 2012, she was 17 years old and pregnant with her first child,

Kaitlyn.

She was the dirty blonde, raunchy oldest sister, impetuously popping pimples on national TV.

Anna had lived with her grandmother before the cameras starting rolling at Honey Boo

Boo's house, but Mama June bribed her to move in with the family for sake of the show.

"Mama promised me and him a house.

And mama said you have to do this for about a year.

And..."

"And that was the show."

"Yeah, and I was like 'okay, that's fine,' and it ended up being two and a half

years."

Not only did she not receive her new home, but Anna also had a strained relationship

with her sisters, even as she baited her television audience with cloyingly redneck adventures,

like getting a couples tattoo with her fiancé, with baby Kaitlyn in tow.

Meanwhile, Jessica, then 15, stormed into our households popping cheese balls into her

mouth, and regularly cutting the cheese.

"Farting can be healthy and fun!"

And Lauryn made her 2012 national television debut at 12 years old, quickly becoming known

as "the one who got struck by lightning" when she was younger.

"I love my sister but she's been crazy ever since she got whopped by lightning."

Showstopper

Jessica and Lauryn's father is currently serving time for multiple parole violations regarding

charges that he sexually exploited a minor.

But even more troubling was the fact that the show was actually cancelled in 2014 amidst

rumors that Mama June had struck up a relationship with former ex and convicted sex offender

Mark McDaniel.

He'd previously abused June's own daughter Anna for six months when she was just eight

years old.

"I feel very hurt.

That's the main thing I am.

I feel very hurt that mama let him come around."

Mama June told Dr. Phil that she was not in a relationship with McDaniel, insisting that

she only took daughters Lauryn and Alana to visit him when he was released from prison

in order to prove that he was not Lauryn's biological father.

But Anna remained skeptical about her mother's true motives.

Breaking away

Anna didn't marry the young man that first made her a mom in the beginning of the show,

but instead she said yes to her later boyfriend Michael Cardwell, who proposed with a pizza.

The two married in a televised wedding ceremony, and Cardwell, a mechanic that had dated Anna

for a year before popping the question, is now father to her second child Kylee, who

was born in 2015.

Anna really made headlines, however, when she accused Mama June of stealing money out

of her bank and trust accounts.

"She sent me a picture of it.

She said, 'This is all that's left in your accounts, $15,400.'

She was supposed to send it the next day.

Well she says she sent it, no letter came."

"Never gotten anything."

"Never got anything."

To make matters worse, Anna also believed Mama June used the lifted money to buy a car

for Mark McDaniel, her former abuser.

Anna ultimately sued her mom for $300,000, claiming her mother had kept Anna's $200,000

of Here Comes Honey Boo Boo show earnings, as well as another $100,000 that was supposed

to go to Anna's daughter Kaitlyn, who also appeared on the show.

In the meantime, she set up — and then deleted — a GoFundMe account in an effort to drum

up some money from fans.

Surgical solution

Honey Boo Boo watchers were as shocked as the family when little Kaitlyn arrived with

something extra in tow — well, make that finger.

The baby was born with a third thumb, which of course made for another memorable zinger

from Aunt Alana.

"I wish I had an extra finger, then I could grab more cheese balls."

While no plans were made on air to remove Kaitlyn's extra thumb, Kaitlyn finally had

the extra digit removed when she was four years old.

Anna explained to Us Weekly, "We kept telling [Kaitlyn] that it was magic, that the doctor

would do magic … they would put her to sleep, and then that [the thumb] was going to be

magically gone, and she got all excited about it.

And she now thinks somehow, now that it's healing [at] home, she thinks she's gonna

have Frozen powers."

Open outing

Sporting a pink faux-hawk, purple nails, and pearl stud earrings, Lauryn announced in an

in April 2015 that she was bisexual …

"I'm attracted to females, and I'm attracted to males."

But then there was much more to the story than that.

Pumpkin then switched the focus of the moment to her mother, who was fresh out of a public

split from Sugar Bear.

"She's gay too, June is gay too.

Yall that's what yall..."

"Bisexual."

"Exactly."

Talk about hitting two birds with one stone.

Early engagement

The heart wants what the heart wants, and 16-year-old Lauryn proved just that when she

said yes to her 19-year-old mechanic-boyfriend Josh's marriage proposal in early 2016.

But the teen fiancée isn't headed to the altar just yet.

The two plan to wait to wed until Lauryn turns 18.

Graduation day

Meanwhile, Jessica has since chosen a different path for her post-show life.

The first in her family to finish her senior year, she was the proud recipient of a high

school diploma when she graduated from Wilkinson County High School in McIntyre, Georgia, in

May 2015.

Dressed in a golden yellow gown and beaming ear to ear, the grad was supported by her

biggest fans: sisters Anna, Lauryn, and Alana, as well as Mama June and Sugar Bear.

Keeping up the momentum, Jessica is currently making the most of that undergrad life in

nursing school.

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