“Honey Boo Boo” is now a high school graduate.
Alana Thompson, who rose to fame as the 6-year-old star of “Here Comes Honey Boo Boo,” graduated from Wilkinson County High School in McIntyre, Georgia, on Saturday.
“Proved the haters wrong,” the 17-year-old wrote on a TikTok video of the ceremony. “Next stop graduating college.”
Thompson’s mother, Mama June Shannon, and older sister, Lauryn, were in attendance to celebrate the accomplishment.
“To say I’m proud would be an understatement,” the sibling wrote on Instagram. “To be there a witness this next chapter I’m amazed. Amazed at how much you’ve grown, how beautiful your soul is, & most importantly how far you’ve come against all odds.”
Lauryn, who is only six years older than Alana, became her legal guardian in April 2022 after their mother’s battle with drug and alcohol addiction.
“It’s been very difficult because ... she is younger and she needs her mom,” Lauryn told Entertainment Tonight in 2020. “So it’s been very hard for both me and her to adjust to me being her ‘sister mom.’”
Shannon, 43, was still invited to the graduation ceremony on Saturday.
“I’m so proud of her she is our 2023 graduate and yes we was hollering the whole time,” she wrote on Instagram.
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