Honey Boo Boo, 19, reveals if she is ready to be a TEEN BRIDE as she flashes diamond engagement ring
Alana ' Honey Boo Boo ' Thompson has talked about getting married.
The 19-year-old has thought about tying the knot with her partner of nearly four years, Dralin Carswell.
But the former beauty pageant star feels it is just too soon, she told E! News, even though she was seen flashing a diamond engagement ring on her wedding finger in New York City on Wednesday.
Honey added that she and Carswell are 'doing good,' but it's not the time for the two to walk down the aisle.
'Not until after school, probably,' she told E! News correspondent Will Marfuggi in an exclusive interview, 'just because it's so expensive and a wedding is a lot of work.' Alana teased, 'It's in the future.'
Thompson, who plans on becoming a nurse, is currently a junior at Regis University in Colorado.
The reality TV star - who has been on TV ever since she was a young girl - and Dralin started dating in September 2021.
But the former beauty pageant star feels it is just too soon, she told E! News, even though she was seen flashing a diamond engagement ring on her ring finger in New York City on Wednesday
And she wants her own family.
'I want to have kids eventually,' she continued. 'I don't want to have a lot of kids—I want maybe two, that's it—but not for a long time.'
But she is not sure she will put them in front of a camera.
'I've been in the spotlight for so long,' she noted. 'I've just seen all the hate that I got when I was younger. I don't know if I would want to put my kid through that. I might just wait until they get old enough to make that decision for themselves.'
She is 'in a really good spot' in her life, adding, 'I don't think it could get better right now.'
She came to fame on the TLC series alongside her mom Mama June Shannon as well as sisters Anna 'Chickadee' Cardwell, Jessica 'Chubbs' Shannon and Lauryn 'Pumpkin' Shannon.
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This comes after she talked her mother Mama June 's dramatic weight loss impacted her self-esteem as an impressionable young girl.
While reflecting on watching her mom, 45, shed 300 pounds very quickly, the reality star, 19, admitted to fearing she would need to undergo the same procedures to look 'perfect picture' and like a 'skinny little model.'
'Not until after school, probably,' she told E! News correspondent Will Marfuggi in an exclusive interview, 'just because it's so expensive and a wedding is a lot of work.' Alana teased, 'It's in the future.' The reality star and Dralin started dating in September 2021
'My mama was a bigger girl, and her having to get surgery and shrink down to this one size, I thought in my head like, 'Oh, am I going to have to do that one day because I'm a bigger girl?'' she told People.
The teenager, who rose to fame on TLC's Toddlers and Tiaras, detailed how the drastic change in her mom's physical appearance 'definitely did take a toll' on her own confidence.
'It didn't take as much of a toll on my life [at the time],' Thompson explained. 'But now I'm looking back and I'm like, 'That was crazy.'
'That was a dramatic change, and I didn't know how to even think of my mom. My mom went from being 300 lbs. to 100 lbs.'
Thompson went on to confess that 'it was kind of scary' seeing her mom 'lose all of that weight so fast.'
As documented on her family's reality show, Mama June: From Not to Hot, Thompson's mom underwent $75,000 worth of treatments, including the insertion of a gastric sleeve, a breast augmentation, liposuction and skin removal of her 'turkey neck' and 'bat wings.'
'She was so tiny, she almost looked sick,' Thompson continued, noting that the transformation 'took a big toll' on her body image, particularly, as a 'bigger girl.'
June successfully lost around 355 pounds after undergoing gastric sleeve surgery 10 years ago.
Last year, the mother-of-four revealed to her Instagram followers that she ' went from 550 pounds to 311' the day she had her surgery, and, six weeks later, she was down to 195 pounds.
In 2022, Thompson, who was just 16 at the time, revealed to ET she was contemplating weight-loss surgery.
'I just wanna make sure that this is actually something I wanna do before I just go and do it,' she said, at the time, about a $13,000 procedure called suture sculpt endoscopic sleeve. 'I wanna make sure that it's, like, not something that's, like, gonna kill me.'
Thompson also explained that she knows she 'could get in the gym' and 'diet' to get similar results.
'I've tried. I will say I've tried, but the one thing with me is I have no motivation. I have no motivation to just keep going to the gym every day. I have no motivation to keep eating healthy because, like, I'm gonna eat what I think is good,' she said.
Thompson continued: 'I'm not [gonna] sit there and force myself to eat no Caesar salad because I think it's healthy. No. I'm gonna eat what I think's good. So, I just think I don't have motivation, and I feel like the surgery would be, like, probably the easiest way to just, like, lose it fast.'
Thompson, who plans on becoming a nurse, is currently a rising junior at Regis University in Colorado.
'I just always told myself you know that you want to do something better with your life and bigger with your life than just being on TV, so you've got to get up and go, you've got to graduate so you can make it to college and be the nurse that you want to be,' she told People earlier this week.
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