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The Shannon family is an American family whose members are best known for their involvement in reality television. The family first appeared on reality television in 2011, when June "Mama June" Shannon and her then-six-year-old daughter, Alana "Honey Boo Boo" Thompson, appeared on the TLC series, Toddlers & Tiaras. The family then got its own spin-off show in 2012 on TLC, Here Comes Honey Boo Boo. After its cancellation, a spin-off series Mama June: From Not to Hot premiered in 2017 on We TV. It has since been rebranded Mama June: Road to Redemption and Mama June: Family Crisis.
In 2011, after discovering Alana's victories within the children's beauty pageant circuit coupled with her outgoing personality and humor, she and her mother, June, became regulars on Toddlers & Tiaras, their success led to a spin-off reality series, Here Comes Honey Boo Boo, which premiered in 2012, and initially ran for six weeks. It featured Alana's older half-sisters, Anna, Jessica, and Lauryn ("Pumpkin") as well as her father Mike, known as Sugar Bear, and other extended family members at home in rural McIntyre, Georgia.
The show was criticized and was called by some critics as "hicksploitation" for making fun of white, rural Southern culture. Nevertheless, the success of the show led to holiday specials on Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas of 2012 and a new 12-week season in 2013. In October 2014, TLC cancelled the show just months before a fifth season was due to air. The cancellation came a day after TMZ reported that June was dating her former boyfriend, who had spent time in prison for sexually molesting a young girl, who turned out to be one of her daughters.
In 2017, the family received another television series on We TV with Mama June: From Not to Hot, which chronicled June's weight loss following bariatric surgery and extensive plastic surgeries on her face and body. The show was later rebranded as Mama June: Road to Redemption and Mama June: Family Crisis after June's drug addiction, arrest, rehab, sobriety, marriage and reconciliation with her daughters. The sixth season covers Alana's high-school graduation and her oldest sister Anna's death at 29.
June Elizabeth "Mama June" Stroud (née Shannon; born August 10, 1979) is the matriarch of the Shannon family, the mother of Anna, Jessica, Lauryn, and Alana. She was born in McIntyre, Georgia to Sandra Hundley and Marvin Shannon, who divorced when she was two. She has three siblings: Joanne "Doe Doe" Shannon, Joanie Shannon (now McDonald) and James Edward Shannon; and two half-sisters, Michelle Shannon and Nicole Shannon. Due to childhood cataracts that went untreated, June is legally blind. At only 14, June became pregnant by her ex-boyfriend David Dunn; she gave birth to daughter Anna just days after her 15th birthday. She quit school when she became pregnant, but she later earned her GED. June pursued relationships with men who would later become convicted sex offenders; her daughters Jessica and Lauryn were fathered by Michael Anthony Ford (b. 1977), who was found guilty of trying to obtain oral sex from a minor female online; and she briefly dated Mark McDaniel, who was convicted of abusing Anna and whom Lauryn believed to be her biological father for some time. Her youngest daughter, Alana, was born in 2005, fathered by Mike Thompson, from whom June split in 2014.
Alongside Lauryn, June came out as bisexual in 2015. She stated she had been intimate with women but had never been in a relationship with one.
June then entered a relationship with Eugene "Geno" Doak. Doak has a criminal record, having served jail time for burglary, theft, and criminal damage to property. In March 2019, June and Doak were both arrested for felony drug possession in Alabama. The two later attended rehab before eventually splitting in 2021. June cited his abuse and relapse as reasons.
In 2021, she began dating former drug addict and convicted felon Justin Stroud. The two married in a Georgia civil ceremony in March 2022 after dating for six months. After continued sobriety, they had a beach wedding in Florida with their families present in February 2023. It is her first marriage.
Shannon family
The Shannon family is an American family whose members are best known for their involvement in reality television. The family first appeared on reality television in 2011, when June "Mama June" Shannon and her then-six-year-old daughter, Alana "Honey Boo Boo" Thompson, appeared on the TLC series, Toddlers & Tiaras. The family then got its own spin-off show in 2012 on TLC, Here Comes Honey Boo Boo. After its cancellation, a spin-off series Mama June: From Not to Hot premiered in 2017 on We TV. It has since been rebranded Mama June: Road to Redemption and Mama June: Family Crisis.
In 2011, after discovering Alana's victories within the children's beauty pageant circuit coupled with her outgoing personality and humor, she and her mother, June, became regulars on Toddlers & Tiaras, their success led to a spin-off reality series, Here Comes Honey Boo Boo, which premiered in 2012, and initially ran for six weeks. It featured Alana's older half-sisters, Anna, Jessica, and Lauryn ("Pumpkin") as well as her father Mike, known as Sugar Bear, and other extended family members at home in rural McIntyre, Georgia.
The show was criticized and was called by some critics as "hicksploitation" for making fun of white, rural Southern culture. Nevertheless, the success of the show led to holiday specials on Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas of 2012 and a new 12-week season in 2013. In October 2014, TLC cancelled the show just months before a fifth season was due to air. The cancellation came a day after TMZ reported that June was dating her former boyfriend, who had spent time in prison for sexually molesting a young girl, who turned out to be one of her daughters.
In 2017, the family received another television series on We TV with Mama June: From Not to Hot, which chronicled June's weight loss following bariatric surgery and extensive plastic surgeries on her face and body. The show was later rebranded as Mama June: Road to Redemption and Mama June: Family Crisis after June's drug addiction, arrest, rehab, sobriety, marriage and reconciliation with her daughters. The sixth season covers Alana's high-school graduation and her oldest sister Anna's death at 29.
June Elizabeth "Mama June" Stroud (née Shannon; born August 10, 1979) is the matriarch of the Shannon family, the mother of Anna, Jessica, Lauryn, and Alana. She was born in McIntyre, Georgia to Sandra Hundley and Marvin Shannon, who divorced when she was two. She has three siblings: Joanne "Doe Doe" Shannon, Joanie Shannon (now McDonald) and James Edward Shannon; and two half-sisters, Michelle Shannon and Nicole Shannon. Due to childhood cataracts that went untreated, June is legally blind. At only 14, June became pregnant by her ex-boyfriend David Dunn; she gave birth to daughter Anna just days after her 15th birthday. She quit school when she became pregnant, but she later earned her GED. June pursued relationships with men who would later become convicted sex offenders; her daughters Jessica and Lauryn were fathered by Michael Anthony Ford (b. 1977), who was found guilty of trying to obtain oral sex from a minor female online; and she briefly dated Mark McDaniel, who was convicted of abusing Anna and whom Lauryn believed to be her biological father for some time. Her youngest daughter, Alana, was born in 2005, fathered by Mike Thompson, from whom June split in 2014.
Alongside Lauryn, June came out as bisexual in 2015. She stated she had been intimate with women but had never been in a relationship with one.
June then entered a relationship with Eugene "Geno" Doak. Doak has a criminal record, having served jail time for burglary, theft, and criminal damage to property. In March 2019, June and Doak were both arrested for felony drug possession in Alabama. The two later attended rehab before eventually splitting in 2021. June cited his abuse and relapse as reasons.
In 2021, she began dating former drug addict and convicted felon Justin Stroud. The two married in a Georgia civil ceremony in March 2022 after dating for six months. After continued sobriety, they had a beach wedding in Florida with their families present in February 2023. It is her first marriage.