June Shannon 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.
Weight journey As an adult, June struggled with being
morbidly obese, weighing at her heaviest. She subsequently underwent
bariatric surgery, having part of her stomach removed as part of a
sleeve gastrectomy, in 2016 and reportedly lost more than thanks to the surgery as well as the help of
dieting and
personal trainer, Kenya Crooks. In addition to her significant weight loss, she underwent
cosmetic surgery, spending a reported $75,000 to further alter her appearance.
Anna Toney Anna Marie "
Chickadee"
Toney (née
Shannon; August 28, 1994 – December 9, 2023) was the eldest of June's four children; her father is David Dunn. Because June was so young when Anna was born, having just turned 15 before she gave birth, she initially considered placing Anna for
adoption by her aunt and uncle, Janice and James Shannon, but the paperwork was never finalized and Anna ultimately ended up being raised by her maternal grandmother, Sandra. While in June's custody, Anna was sexually abused by June's then-boyfriend, Mark McDaniel, who was later convicted for his crimes. Like her mother, Anna became pregnant as a teenager and gave birth to her first child, daughter Kaitlyn Elizabeth, in 2012. Kaitlyn has the surname Clark after Anna's longtime boyfriend Caleb Clark, but Anna never publicly named Kaitlyn's father; she only said that they had not spoken since Kaitlyn was two months old and that he was
engaged with two children. She and Clark eventually split and Anna went on to marry Michael Cardwell (b. 1992). The two married on May 25, 2014, and moved to Alabama, where their daughter Kylee Madison was born in 2015. Anna and Michael separated in 2017 and Anna returned to Georgia with her two children. Anna had a strained relationship with June, as June defended McDaniel in regards to accusations that he sexually assaulted her and reportedly began dating McDaniel again in 2014. Additionally, Anna alleged that June had stolen thousands out of her trust fund, leaving her with less than $18 in her savings account. During the time Anna involved lawyers in an effort to gain access to her accounts, which were managed by June, she took to social media in an effort to make money selling products that claimed to prevent
Ebola, in the midst of the
Ebola epidemic in the United States, which subjected her to backlash. In January 2023, she was diagnosed with
stage 4 adrenal cancer, which later became terminal. In March 2023, she married her long-time boyfriend, Eldridge Toney. After four rounds of chemotherapy, she died on December 9, 2023, at her mother's home.
Jessica Shannon Jessica Louise "
Chubbs"
Shannon (born October 12, 1996) is June's second daughter; her father is Michael Anthony Ford. When the family moved from
McIntyre, Georgia to
Hampton, Georgia, 17-year-old Jessica did not accompany them, as she had less than three months until her
high school graduation. She was the first member of the family to graduate high school and attend college. Jessica is a lesbian and is in a relationship with Shyann McCant. Shyann, who first appeared on a May 2023 episode of
Mama June: Family Crisis, is six years younger than Jessica.
Lauryn Shannon Lauryn Mychelle "
Pumpkin"
Shannon (born January 7, 2000) is June's third daughter. Lauryn was raised believing her father was Mark McDaniel, a former partner of June's who sexually abused Anna, who was never convicted for this but was convicted of molesting another child. June has admitted that she is not sure who Lauryn's biological father is. At the age of six, Lauryn was struck by lightning. Lauryn came out as bisexual alongside June in 2015. In 2018, she stated that she wished she would have waited until she was older to have children and that it had not been her intention to become a teen mother. Lauryn and Joshua married in April 2018 in
Las Vegas,
Nevada. She later gave birth to son Bentley Jameson in June 2021. In May 2022, she gave birth to twins, a boy named Sylus Ray and a girl named Stella Renae. On August 1, 2024, Lauryn and Joshua filed for divorce. After June's arrest in 2019, Lauryn took in Alana and obtained temporary custody. She was granted full custody in June 2022.
Alana Thompson Alana Frances "Honey Boo Boo" Thompson (born August 28, 2005) is the fourth and youngest of June's daughters; her father is June's former longtime partner Mike "Sugar Bear" Thompson. Alana began to compete in beauty pageants at a young age, in which she appeared on several episodes on the
TLC television show
Toddlers & Tiaras, which gave viewers a behind-the-scenes look at the world of children's pageantry. A popular member of the cast, she and her family were given their own show,
Here Comes Honey Boo Boo, which was ultimately cancelled due to her mother's association with sex offender Mark McDaniel. Alana also appeared in
Mama June: From Not to Hot. In 2018, she performed in the lone season of
ABC's
Dancing with the Stars: Juniors, paired with Tristan Ianiero and mentored by
Artem Chigvintsev.
TMZ reported that Alana was paid $50,000 to appear on the show and would earn an additional $80,000 if she remained on the show for the entirety of the season and competed in the finale episode. She was eliminated in the fourth week. In 2021, she appeared with June on
The Masked Singer. Disguised as a beach ball, she was eliminated in the first round after singing
Miley Cyrus' "
Party in the U.S.A." After June's March 2019 arrest, Alana lived with half-sister Lauryn. Lauryn was given legal guardianship of Alana until she turned 18. she moved to Denver, Colorado with her boyfriend, Dralin Carswell. She currently attends
Regis University for a degree in nursing. In May 2025, Thompson appeared on the
Lifetime documentary film
I Was Honey Boo Boo.
Kaitlyn Shannon Kaitlyn Elizabeth Shannon (born July 26, 2012) is the elder of Anna's two daughters, born to Anna when she was 17 years old. Her birth was featured on season one of
Here Comes Honey Boo Boo. Though Anna's high-school sweetheart, Caleb Clark, whom she dated for two years, has said he believes himself to be Kaitlyn's father, Anna and her family expressed doubts, as she had been intimately involved with a second man around the time she became pregnant. Neither Caleb nor the other man appear to publicly have a relationship with Kaitlyn and, after Anna married Michael Cardwell, Kaitlyn reportedly began calling her stepfather "Daddy." Her half-sister Kylee was born when she was 3 years old. Kaitlyn was born with
polydactyly, sporting a second thumb on her right hand; she later underwent surgery to remove her extra thumb, amidst Anna's concerns that her daughter would be
bullied for her condition. After her mother and stepfather separated in 2017, Kaitlyn moved with her mother and half-sister from Alabama, where she had been living since the age of 2, to Georgia. (born December 8, 2017) is Lauryn's eldest child; Lauryn was 17 when she gave birth to Ella. Her family currently maintains an
Instagram account for her, which had 92,600 followers as of May 2020. Her parents married in 2018, when she was 4 months old.
Bentley Jameson Efird Bentley Jameson Efird (born July 21, 2021) is the second addition to the Efird family.
Sylus and Stella Efird Sylus Ray Efird and
Stella Renae Efird (born May 19, 2022) are the twin children of Lauryn and Joshua as well as the third and fourth additions to the Efird family. They were born just eleven months after brother Bentley. ==Associates of the Shannons==