Alana “Honey Boo Boo” Thompson could be a widely known actuality star — however that doesn’t imply she’s been paid like one.
“I by no means had gotten all the cash. I’ve by no means, ever acquired the Right here Comes Honey Boo Boo cash. I’ve by no means seen it,” Thompson, 19, claimed in an interview with Folks revealed on Saturday, Could 24, alleging that she has acquired zero funds from her time starring on each actuality TV exhibits Right here Comes Honey Boo Boo and Toddlers & Tiaras.
“By no means ever even heard of it, if I’m being fully sincere,” she added. “I don’t know what occurred to it.”
This isn’t the primary time cash has been a contentious subject for Thompson, who rose to fame when she starred on Right here Comes Honey Boo Boo, which aired on TLC from 2012 to 2017. The sequence adopted the kid magnificence pageant contestant and her household, together with mother June “Mama June” Shannon — who stars within the WeTV spinoff sequence, Mama June: From To not Sizzling. The present started airing in 2017, with season 7 set to premiere on Could 30.
An April 2025 trailer for the upcoming season revealed Thompson and Shannon are nonetheless sparring over money. The clip begins with June telling the group, “Although we could be a dysfunctional household, the dysfunctionality works for our household.” Within the subsequent clip, Thompson is seen asking Shannon for the cash she owes, as June arms her what seems to be a dry-erase board within the form of a large test.
“This isn’t a recreation,” Thompson tells the digital camera.
Rising up as a actuality TV star hasn’t simply impacted Thompson’s checking account. The previous magnificence pageant star mentioned her time in entrance of the cameras has additionally impacted her personal physique picture — for higher and for worse.
“For essentially the most half, I’m very assured in myself and what I put on. I’m sort of similar to, ‘Who provides a rattling?’” Thompson, 19, solely informed Us Weekly whereas selling Lifetime’s new sequence I Was Honey Boo Boo. “Lots of people take a look at greater ladies and so they’re like, ‘Oh, they’re not wholesome.’ However I really feel like wholesome our bodies are available in all totally different styles and sizes. I’m fully wholesome. I could also be a little bit bit greater, however I’m fully wholesome.”
Thompson — whose mother underwent a full physique transformation, together with a 2015 gastric sleeve — famous that the present contributed to her personal points surrounding physique picture and a way of self..
“That was simply primarily as a result of my mother was going from to not scorching,” Thompson defined to Us. “She was an even bigger lady and I’ve at all times been an even bigger lady myself too. And simply to see my mother go from 300 kilos to 100 kilos was a shock to me simply because it’s like, ‘Am I going to have to try this in the future as a result of I’m an even bigger lady? [Are] folks not going to like me till I get surgical procedure or I’m this skinny fairly little lady?’”
Former youngster star Alana “Honey Boo Boo” Thompson is proud that she graduated from highschool amid her household’s custody drama. “[Age 14 to] 16 was in all probability a few of the hardest years of my life [sic],” the Toddlers & Tiaras alum, 17, captioned a Wednesday, Could 24, TikTok video from her commencement ceremony. “I had doubts that I […]
She continued, “So it was very laborious on me, however after some time I seen that both approach my mother was nonetheless getting proven love, so I used to be like, I imply she’s nonetheless getting proven love.”