Poor Alana Thompson says she’s given up trying to have a relationship with her father.
Alana– otherwise known as “Honey Boo Boo” and her sister Lauryn “Pumpkin” Shannon recently sat down with OK! magazine to discuss the status of the relationship that Alana has with her father, Mike “Sugar Bear” Thompson. According to the Mama June: From Not to Hot stars, ol’ Sugar Bear is basically M.I.A. from Alana’s life.
“The only time I ever see him is if weâre filming with him, which is very rarely,” Alana said of her dad. “I tell myself all the time, Iâm not going to put effort into something where thereâs no effort being put in by the other person, or the other person doesnât even care. So Iâm not going to care about something that the other person donât care about.
“He knows that I think we should have a better relationship, that we should see each other, like, once a month,” she added.
To solve that pesky “parenting” problem, Sugar Bear used his noggin and basically scheduled himself to be a dad at the same time every month…via a single text.
“He textses her, but he textses her the same text message over and over again,” Pumpkin said. (And, yes, she said “textses.”)
“Like, he copies and pastes!” Alana said. “Or, he has a set time every day— well, itâs not even every day he texts me— itâs probably once every month, and he has a set time [every month], and he sends the exact same text. He has it on a schedule.”
June Shannon, who— as The Ashley told you, is facing some serious drug charges following her recent gas station brawl/drug bust with boyfriend Geno Doak— currently has no relationship at all with The Bear.
âShe doesnât talk to him,â Alana said. âThe only time sheâll talk to him is if we have to film but she doesnât even really talk to him then.”
(‘Member when everyone was happy and doing the “Honey Boo Boo Bop” together? Sigh…those were the days!)
While Sugar Bear does send her Christmas gifts, Alana said that he would have no clue as to when her birthday is.
“Heâd be like, âItâs sometime in August, thatâs all I know.â Itâs not that hard to remember my birthday,” Alana said.
According to Alana, there’s a pretty sad reason for why Sugar Bear chooses to be absent from her life.
“I feel like [he doesnât want to be part of my life] because Iâm not a boy,” she said. “When my mom [was pregnant and] told Sugar Bear that I was going to be a girl, he didnât want me. He was just like, âI wanted a boy.â So now heâs with Jennifer and Joseph is Jenniferâs son, and he pays more attention to Joseph than he does me. And I feel like thatâs only because Iâm a girl and he wanted a boy.”
Watch Alana and Pumpkin’s full interview below!
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Perhaps Jennifer will be a good influence in his life and a good stepmother. Her values are certainly better than Junes.
Wow she’s huge.
Poor kid really lucked out with those two as parents.
She was saddled with shit parents, I will give her that. It completely and utterly sucks, and so many children, the world over, are in the same boat. By the same token, though, as heartbreaking as it seems at times (and it does I won’t downplay that), you can move past it. You can do better, s you can be be better. You now have ample evidence telling you how not to be, what not to do. So much, in fact, that you have all the tools you need to avoid putting others in the same position you’re in now.
That whole mess of folks needs so much work, it’s unreal. As hard as it can be at times to face reality, you sort of have to when it repeatedly slaps you upside the head. Holding out faith that reality is going to up and change on you one day is an exercise in futility, not strength. Move on, make something great out of your life, do something better with yourself, take CARE of yourself, and don’t let your past dictate how your future goes. You can use it as a stepping stone, a jumping off point, sure, but using it to keep yourself relevant, or rather, letting others use it to keep you relevant, is going to end in disaster. This girl needs so much help it’s not even funny. She’s not healthy in mind, body or spirit, and it will kill her someday-and yes her upbringing is the cause of that. She needs someone to slap her (not literally) upside the head with an actual reality. She needs people willing to help her do better, be better and move the hell on from her past-get away from the shit, out of the limelight. I don’t say that lightly, or to be mean, but, she’s kinda stuck in a perpetual spin and it’s taking her down the drain. I feel bad saying someone is never going to amount to anything, and I do hope she gets out of it, honestly, but at this rate, she’s going to end up worse than BOTH of her parents, assuming she even lives as long as they do. No one is helping her, not really, unless it benefits them.
Alana is huge. She’s gonna end up diabetic if someone doesn’t step in and monitor this child’s diet. I imagine her mother is cracked out a lot these days and probably neglects her kid.
If I had a Dad like Sugar Bear, not to even mention he calls himself Sugar Bear, I would want an absent Dad. A bunch of trailer trash hicks that found a way out and none of them have the sense to know what to do. Or they just plain didn’t want out.
You plant potatoes, you get potatoes ?.
Their relationship might get better when her mom is in prison and she’s living with her dad.
I have to say I’m impressed with pumpkin and her sticking together for her sister and having a level head in all this mess
The only way that Alana could know her father was disappointed when her mother was pregnant and found out the gender is if her mother told her that. So her mother is bad mouthing her father. That’s awful and sad. What a bunch of trashy idiots.
Oh my lanta, Alana is so big. Poor kid. And Lauryn looks JUST alike June. YIKES
I have the same shirt as Honey Boo Boo đ
Please…we can’t be this desperate. I guess we’ll try anything to get the spotlight off Momma June. And life goes on for the has beens .. oops, I meant the rich and famous
âI feel like [he doesnât want to be part of my life] because Iâm not a boy,â she said. âWhen my mom [was pregnant and] told Sugar Bear that I was going to be a girl, he didnât want me. He was just like, âI wanted a boy.â Said every father since the dawn of time!
Exhibit A – Tyler
That poor child. Absent father, drug addicted mom who dates criminals & pedofiles.
Eh, I think there are some men that just aren’t ready for a child period. Take Ryan Edwards, he didn’t care what the sex was, just didn’t want to grow up and be an active parent.
There are PLENTY of men who are excited to have a little girl. My dad was for example. So I call BS on your theory.