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It’s time to weigh in on the weight loss challenge. Everyone has pretty much gone off their diets and then come back on it, only to go off them again. Twelve-year old Pumpkin has a goal to gain weight. She wants to weigh 250 pounds – I know she is 12 and therefore obnoxious, but I really can’t tell if she is joking.
She has gained 6 pounds so she is on her way to realizing that goal, June is not pleased with the goal. Pumpkin then goes on to say she also plans to have her butthole pierced. OK, I love this kid! I also love June’s reaction to the piercing announcement:
Jessica has lost 3 pounds. She doesn’t like being fat and is petulant about her lack of success. June lost 1.6 pounds overall and considers it a start. As a reward for the “hard work” they put into losing weight, June decides to take them to the water park in Statesboro.
Thoughts of June in a bathing suit swarm my head and I wonder if I can actually take it. But, I will say this for June, she is aware of her size and doesn’t subject us to any inappropriate swim wear. And she keeps her socks on even while in the water.
Alana says that her life jacket makes her look like a chunky lemon, and June immediately responds that it makes her look beautiful. I love this family! I get the health concerns with the family’s weight. I truly do. But, I love that June still encourages them to feel good about themselves no matter what size they are.
The official spokesperson for healthy body image!
The family has a great time in the water and on the water slides. Chubbs wants to go down the largest slide and June forbids it. The girls make a deal with June. If she will show them her forklift foot, they won’t go down the slide. June doesn’t want to show it – explaining again that she is embarrassed by it. But, she eventually does.
Since I’m not showing the picture, I will describe it for you. It looks like an ingrown toenail with black streaks around it. And, for some reason, gnats are buzzing around it. I’m not sure why there are suddenly gnats since there weren’t any buzzing around her sock, and I’m sure there weren’t any IN her sock when she pulled it off.
Anyway, everyone heads home relaxed and ready to focus on the Rockstar Pageant. June gives Alana a spray tan and Alana reminds her to make sure she gets under the fat roll. And, we get our first actual on air fart of the season when Alana lets one rip and is shocked at how bad it smells. Then, she announces that she has to go poo poo.
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Apologies Gasmii! I had the best photo ever selected for the home page slider and totally flaked on remembering to upload it. The only thing I can say to make up for this horrible lapse is: “You would have seriously loved my garnets and smoky topaz.”
If you have no idea what that means, check out the Watercooler thread on Michael Clark Duncan’s unfortunate passing. You still won’t know what it means, but you will understand why it’s the perfect summation of my apology.
Winning in your division is actually considered losing in the pageant world. And the division prizes are usually just cheap toys. If they win a higher title they usually have cash rewards or bonds, but it is never equal to the amount of money these parents spend. And sometimes for Ultimate Grand Supreme with a cherry on top they have a grand prize. On Toddlers and Tiaras I’ve seen them give away things like puppies and play houses. I watch way too much Toddlers and Tiaras.
Thank you so much for not showing the toe.
And this is a funny and interesting article on Cracked about the show.
http://www.cracked.com/blog/4-ways-honey-boo-boo-redeemed-reality-tv/
@sagittariuskim, are you a cracked.com addict too?
You never “win” your money back on these type of pageants. You may make a little bit back if you win a high title or special award but not enough to even cover the cost to enter the pageant nevertheless the hair, makeup, dress, accessories, coaching, travel expenses, etc.
I did natural pageants a bit when I was young and I won free entry into the State pageant for winning top personality so that saved my parents the couple hundred bucks to enter, but still had to pay for a week of travel expenses, dress, etc. The worst part about that state pageant was we lived super close to the pageant and could have just stayed at our house but to make it “Fair” they required all contestants to stay on site so that no one had an unfair advantage. Lame. Meaning they just wanted the room rent money. It was held at UTK during Summer break and we had to pay to stay in the empty dorm rooms.
That family is fun, they know how to have fun and they all stick together. Their family values are higher than a lot of people I know. Still waiting to see the episode 7 that I stupidly erased.
Kudos Plath. As per usual.
I was thinking that a swim burka would be perfect for June, covering the body modestly (for which we all would be grateful) while reducing exposure to harmful rays. Then I went back to SuperB’s picture in Friday’s Top Ten of an actual swim burka and realized 1) as with any swimwear it only flatters a good figure and 2) the cost of so much fabric would keep it well out of the Boo Boo budget.
@SKim and Moli, I’ll bet lots of Gasmii are also Cracked fans. I wait to be reminded on email of new issues and then head for the site immediately. Second only to the Gasm.
“You would have seriously loved my garnets and smoky topaz.” — KM
@S-Kim, I loved that article. I used to read Cracked religiously, and then they kind of fell off my radar. Now, I am subscribing to their site just so I can find sweet gems like that.
As for the pageants and the prizes, what a ripoff! I figured that the winning wouldn’t cover the cost of competing, but I had no idea just how cheap the prizes are. And seriously? A puppy as a prize? You know good and we that a standard pageant mom would never let that child keep a puppy. Taking care of it would take away too much time from rehearsing. Just makes me think of poor Glitzy again.
@April, what kind of prizes did that pageant give away to supreme winners?
@Bobbi, I agree that this family is a lot of fun and I absolutely adore them. Episode 7 is coming soon and I may even get it in on time!
@Snowshoecat, I have to agree, there is no way the family could afford the cost of enough fabric to get June a burka of any kind. But, I think she did a great job of keeping covered up considering. And thanks for the Kudos!
I have found that recapping is so much more fun when I actually enjoy the show. So, this and Mob Wives (New York) have been awesome recapping experiences for me.
Between here and Cracked it is so hard to get anything done. For example, I have a French test tomorrow and as you can see my attempt to study hasn’t made much progress.
@sagittariuskim, what’s French for “You would have seriously loved my garnets and smoky topaz.”? Because I am totally trying to make that happen. And now you can study French and enjoy the comments of this recap.
i just hope mom and dad are putting honey boo boo childs money away for when she gets get bigger!!! a lot of people send her money and toys..
I think the prizes usually correlate with the cost of entering. For bigger more expensive pageants they offer bigger prizes like cash, puppies, those riding Barbie jeeps, etc. But you are paying for it either way. These pageants are businesses first and foremost. They are in it to make money. They come out on top, not the contestants even the winners. Dance competitions are the same thing because you have to pay to enter but are a little less blatant about it.
I just did smaller regional local natural beauty pageants like Sunburst and Cinderella. I judged some Sunburst pageants too. The winner gets a crown, sash, trophy or plaque and sometimes they have toy prizes like Barbies, My Little Ponies, etc.
I knew some bigger deals in the pageant world when I was growing up who won vacations, large cash prizes and a car. But again, you still pay a lot to enter and a lot to be competitive and only one girls wins while the pageant pockets the rest of the money.
@Plath I think it’s Vous/Tu aurais adoré sérieusement mes grenats et topazes enfumées.
Oh I forgot to mention that yesterday was my friend’s 21st birthday and last night he had a party. And at some point during we starting talking about this show while he fed me vodka gummy bears. He said that it was bad representation of the south, but that he liked June and Sugar Bear. He hates Alana though. I was kind of surprised by what he said because he can be pretentious.
@alicecarrol13 (excellent screen name btw), I am hoping that’s the case too. I don’t think that reality show personalities have to abide by the same rules as child actors. But, I do know that Georgia is a “Right to Work” state and there are very few Union employers here. So, Alana’s parents would have make provisions for the money she earned versus it being mandated. If there are any legal experts that can help clarify that, it would be awesome.
@April, since these kids wouldn’t have a use for a car, are those high dollar prizes reserved for older pageant entrants? Or is it like the Family Feud where the whole family wins the prize?
@sagittariuskim, what’s a vodka gummy bear? Those were totally left out of my college experience. I’m not sure if Honey Boo Boo is a bad representation of The South though. I’ve been to Walmart and I suspect it’s only a highly edited representation of a specific type of southern family that TLC is trying to portray as a depiction of the entire South. And, that is why I think they are trying their best to pimp this family.
But, I also think that this family is too smart for TLC to get the last laugh. At least, I hope that is the case because I can relate to this family.
She went on to have 4 more children. Granted, she had all of her children with the same man, but still, I don’t see anything wrong with her realizing that she made a mistake in her choice of mate and moving on to the next one. Especially, when you consider that June isn’t exactly a stereotypical beauty.
But, my mom accepted our mistakes and supported us through the consequences. But, more importantly, she valued education. And, since TLC is pimping this family, we can’t be sure that June isn’t doing the same thing. But, I truly hope that she is. Because those kids are too bright to be left with no options once the show is done.
Sorry, not sure what happened, but the sentence: “My mother had me at 17 just like Anna and Kaitlyn.” It should have come just before the “She went on to have 4 more children” line.
Another Cracked addict over here!
@Plath vodka gummy bears are just gummy bears that have been soaked in vodka. You soaked the bears in vodka for a few days and they absorb it. The longer they soak the more vodka the suck up.
I totally agree about June’s outlook and treatment of her kids. Yes, they might not be healthy weight wise but they won’t have a unhealthy relationship with food. That being said, they do have a healthy relationship with unhealthy food. That is easier to change than someone who is raised with an unhealthy relationship with food (ex – denied ice cream their entire childhood because it is unhealthy and told candy is a sin). When they get a little older, it will be easy to teach them how have a better diet (diet as in what they eat not as in a diet like weight watchers).
I find it refreshing that Alana is not winning the pageants just because she is being filmed for tv. If this was an MTV show, she would win.
I sort of wish we got to know June’s reaction to Kris Kardashian’s comments. But at the same time, June might not know who the Kardashian’s are, which would be awesome.
*running to the store to pick up some gummy bears and vodka*
We just might have to start a forum for all the Gasmii Cracked addicts.
@Plath, your mother may have made a mistake, but YOU, my dear are not a mistake. Nor are your sibs. Some of the best things in life were begun by mistake.
“You would have seriously loved my garnets and smoky topaz.” — KM *But non-blood diamonds are still a girl’s best friend–SSC
@S-Kim Now that they have passed alcohol sales on Sundays in Athens, I just might go buy some vodka tonight, specifically for the purpose of soaking gummy bears in it.
@carol, you just know that Kris Kardashian is using any opportunity to put something out in the press. I’ll bet you anything that she never watched the show. She only did an interview because someone randomly asked her what she thought about this show and she worried that she would become old news if she didn’t appear to know who else was out there on the reality tv circuit. Hell, with a couple of well phrased questions, any one of us could convince her to do a photo op with June and Alana – As long as there are flashbulbs popping.
@snowshoecat, Yeah. I did turn out pretty awesome.
I also read Cracked a lot.
I am going to have to try that gummi bear thing.
I have the Vodka, just need the gummi bears…
What are the measurements–how many bears to volume of vodka?
@Plath,
Thanks for hitting another one out of the ballpark. Great article ;}
“Is it weird that I love how Macon is the Big City for them? I went to college in Macon and if you have ever been there, you know exactly why I giggle every time the family heads there for a big event.”
Both my Mom and I live in small towns. When we go to “the city”, we call it “going to Raleigh”. Neither one of us lives near Raleigh, we don’t even live in the same state. We just liked the way it sounded on the Andy Griffith Show. So, when we go shopping we always call it “going to Raleigh”
Robin
Robin – that’s a great story – made me smile. I’m a Cracked fan too, that was a very funny article.
@Shana It depends on how strong you want them. If you completely submerges them then they will have a kick to them.
I’m the one who bought the bears to the party. My roommate and I made them for labor day weekend. We started soaking them that Wed. and that Sun. they have soaked up half the vodka and had a nice kicked to them. The ones I bought to the party were leftovers we made more than we could finish by ourselves. We let them keeping soaking and by yesterday they had soaked up almost all the vodka and the burn was gone too.
We also soaked the red ones in raspberry vodka, the green, yellow, and white ones in green apple, and the orange ones in just regular vodka. The green ones were the best.
This where I got the recipe: http://mixthatdrink.com/vodka-gummi-bears/
We used plastic tupperware and they turned out fine.
@S-Kim what Shana said. I have the vodka and the gummies. What are the measurements?
@Robin, I love it! I’m totally going to call my outlet shopping expeditions, “going to Raleigh,” from now on.
@sagittariuskim, I think you may just party a little too hard for someone in my advanced stage of old age. How can you afford that many different types of vodka while in college? Wait, is this one of those things where everyone just donates their booze for the party? Because vodka gummy bears sounds much better than the old school “hunch punch” we made back in the day.
@Plath, I like Hunch Punch better than the “Purple Passion” we used to call it, although the gummy bear route sounds a tad too toxic for me– also in an advanced state of OldTimers disease. What were we sayung?
I can imagine being totes hammered within a few minutes of arrival. After tossing a few yummy bears I’m afraid I’d be tossing something else. I’ll just sip for a while thankyouverymuch.
@Plathaddict – I’m not a legal expert by ANY stretch of the imagination, however – my oldest son has done extra work (as have I) ,and while extras don’t “rake in the dough”, he’s made enough to stick in his savings account.
Not sure what question you’re asking exactly, but there’s no one standing over me telling me how to spend/save his money. I’m a thoughtful Mum – he did the work, so the check went 100% into his savings account, and he was only allowed to access it when he wanted to take out $40 for spending money for Boy Scout Camp.
OH! – Meant to say – I live in Georgia and my son and I do extra work in Georgia, that is why I answered.
Haha my friends would disagree. They think I don’t come out enough. My roommate brought the supplies because she was already out. It was just small bottles of Smirnoff. And yeah he ask everybody to try and bring something, it was his birthday so no one complained. But we usually bring stuff to parties anyway, cause if you don’t you will be stuck drinking hunch punch. Or green drink which is similar to hunch punch.
@snowshoe I’m one of those lucky people who don’t throw up or get headaches. I just get hungry, thirsty, and sleepy.
@Mummy I was asking if the Screen Guild rules apply in a non-union state like Georgia. I know that the rules get muddied when it comes to reality shows and even talk shows in pro-union states. But, I wasn’t sure how it all shook out every where else.
Since Honey Boo Boo is a reality show being filmed in a non-union state, I wasn’t sure if the child actor guild laws applied.
I am not a drinker by any stretch of the imagination. I love sweet and don’t like ‘the burn’ of regular alcohol (even rum). I had a Medori Sour last night and I had to water it down a little. That is why I got so interested in the ‘yummy bears’ (as snowshoecat called them). Add in the concentrated fruit juice the day of and I think it sounds awesome (after reading your post I did some investigating on the net). I saw a recipe for A White Russian–made out of vanilla pudding, milk, and vanilla vodka–that sounded good too. My college days ended right before jello shots came out and I have never had one. Sigh, I always miss out on all the fun stuff.
@S-Kim you lucky girl!
@Shana,think we can get a copyright on Yummy Bears for the Gasmii? And your White Russian recipe sounds phab!
We substitute Bailey’s for the cream and call them Big Girl White Russians. A leetle extra kick.
(ヘ‿ヘ) ｡ ° ｏ｡ ((( @snowshoecat is smart )))
June was called “the human thumb” on The Soup this week. Looking at the first picture of her on page 2, I see just what they meant.
*the first picture of her by herself, that is . . . the reaction shot to the butthole piercing.
@Kthxy, awwwwwwwwwww
*blushes*
(hic)
Plath, poor little Alana will NEVER take home grand supreme with anchovies at the Pageants because she is chubby- Sorry to say the judges don’t much care for Chubbas. I doubt she will ever have the grace they require, either.
You simply must watch some episodes of Toddlers and Tiaras to see what I mean.
On another note, what say we take Kris & Kim K. to dinner at Honey Boo Boo’s, now there would be an episode to watch!
I just love how Alanna is such a free little spirit. My family is very much like that with the little ones. Spontaneous dances are very much encouraged, as well as random acts of weirdness. I applaud it, wholeheartedly.
And I feel so bad for June with all that extra weight, it just must be so difficult forher on a day to day basis to get around, etc. That trip to the water park just about killed me. I love that she’s so very much at peace with her size, etc. but I know there has to be limitations to being that big. Color me conflicted.
Oh and I forgot to metion the water park shot of June’s neck crud- Thanks TLC, lost my dinner over that one.
We call vodka gummy bears “Drunk Gummies” here in Syracuse. An online podcast I went to had a contest for best drunk gummy recipe. Someone brought in a huge gummy bear (not sure how big but…pretty big haha) and they soaked it in everclear. I feel like someone ate his whole ear and wasn’t feeling too well in the morning.
I love this show and can’t get enough of June and her brood. I thought it was soooo sweet when Alana came running up and said as if there were still stars in her eyes, “Mama, I won QUEEN!” And you never know, @Pat Ladoux, she might win a smile supreme or a personality supreme or something. That’s still a supreme. Also, June and co. don’t seem to care that being a queen in your division is equal to being a loser. They loved it when she got queen and Alana is so innocent in thinking that this was a great accomplishment.
i missed it-what did kris k/j say about honey boo boo?
I don’t know….I did some natural pageants as a child and if I remember correctly, some pudgy type girls would beat me sometimes. Mostly because when they are a little pudgy they end up with those cute baby faces that look better than the skinny angular faces of slender girls.
So I am not saying she doesn’t win because of pudginess. Now her gut is a problem but again it is all about dressing them in flattering clothing and playing up the chubby baby face.
Getting Queen is not the worst thing. Getting like Princess or runner up is even lower. Queen means you beat all the girls in your age group except the ones that pulled out for higher title. Which means you still beat potentially multiple girls. Right? Correct me if I am wrong.
It really upsets me when I see other blogs with people calling this family trash and how they are disgusting etc…..people can’t choose where they are born and how they grow up…but I have to say that I would rather spend time with this family any day over any of the Kardashian’s or the Housewives. These people even held an event to help the ‘poor people’….when many up here on the East coast where I live would consider them the poor people…it just goes to show that its not what you have but how you choose to look a life that is important and I think this June person is just great…she knows the joke…she gets it and laughs along with everybody. How dare Kris Jenner even talk about exploiting her kids? She is the QUEEN of making money off of her children…only second behind Kate Gosselin….who I bet is FREAKING OUT that Honey BOO has a show and she does not. Great recaps!!
Sunshine poor people give the most to charities.
Mama Jenner is letting her teenagers drop out of high school to be “home schooled.” Wonder how that will work out when the money is gone, looks have faded and no one gives two hoots about them?
I am not calling them trash. The only problem that I really have with them is maybe letting the kids eat too much junk food and get unhealthy weights and that the daughter is so young and pregnant and keeping the baby. Judge away, but that baby might have a better life in an adoptive home with adult parents. I live in the South though so I see stuff like this every day.
OMGGGGGGGGGGGG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This has got to be the one of the best places on the planet for fun crazy!
The recaps make me laugh every time. An excellent recap of Honey Boo Boo and the other “Junies”.
And…… then like a little plastic ring in the Cracker Jack there are… TA DAAAAAAAAA
THE COMMENTS!!!!!!!!!!!
Look at the gems we got today!!!!!!!
“You would have seriously loved my garnets and smoky topaz.” (That is only the start of the fun with that guy! OMG! I wish I could tell him that I am just as proud of my mother in law for being fluent in Pig Latin as he is in his MIL for all those USELESS languages she knows! (Family pride is DEEP here in Texas, Mr. KM!!!!!!!!!!)
And, then just to cause me to have wonderful dreams about improving candy! A recipe for VODKA GUMMY BEARS!!!!!!!
Tell me one other place on earth you could get all of this information in one place????
“And…… then like a little plastic ring in the Cracker Jack there are… TA DAAAAAAAAA
THE COMMENTS!!!!!!!!!!!
Look at the gems we got today!!!!!!!
“You would have seriously loved my garnets and smoky topaz.” (That is only the start of the fun with that guy! OMG! I wish I could tell him that I am just as proud of my mother in law for being fluent in Pig Latin as he is in his MIL for all those USELESS languages she knows! (Family pride is DEEP here in Texas, Mr. KM!!!!!!!!!!)
And, then just to cause me to have wonderful dreams about improving candy! A recipe for VODKA GUMMY BEARS!!!!!!!
Tell me one other place on earth you could get all of this information in one place????”
There isn’t a place!!
TC, Robin
@Maudtherriault- The Kardashians and Jenners have always been very wealthy multimillionaires living the good life. I think they had $100 million before they were even famous or anyone even knew their names. Their money will never be gone. It will last several generations, if not more. The kids are set for life. So are the grandkids.
“The Kardashians and Jenners have always been very wealthy multimillionaires living the good life. I think they had $100 million before they were even famous or anyone even knew their names.”
Kinda not true. As a matter of fact, Robert Kardashian was the lowest paid member of the “Dream Team” that represented OJ Simpson. Kris Kardashian (at the time) did hang with wealthy folks but her bank account certainly gained more zeros when she married Jenner.
The money trail continued on with a sex tape because good Mothers help out in any way they can.
TC, Robin
I remember reading somewhere that Bruce Jenner was worth $100 million when he married Kris or a bit later on. But definitely before they were famous. And the Kardashians as well as the Jenners have grown up privileged and come from wealthy families maybe not as wealthy as they are today but still wealthy. I think even Scott’s family is very wealthy.
I didn’t know when I mention the vodka gummy bears it was going to cause so much excitement. I’m glad I brighten everyone’s day a little, and helped you find a fun new way to get drunk.
sagittariuskim,
whatttja say? Spreak Cleary!
Looks like Robin’s Gummy Bear wasted!
@April – yes, totally agree that Chickadee’s (!!) baby doesn’t have much of a shot at life where she is. In about 17 yrs, Chickadee will prob be becoming a grandma.
For those of you that think this a wonderful family and show, I’m just speechless. I see a mother willing to sell out her kids to make some money, which she spends on pageants and food. It should be spent on birth control and saved for education, but I don’t think that will be happening any time soon. The housewives and Kards are awful, and if the best you can say about this family is that they are better than them, then you’re not really saying much.
@Carol – anyone who weighs 320 lbs has an unhealthy relationship with food. Period. And any 6 yr old that goes to a bbq place and orders the triple platter with sides is on her way too.
@April and Jazzy, I respectfully disagree with with your opinion on Katilyn’s chances. And, I do it from personal experience. My mother had me at 17. She didn’t become a grandmother until my younger sister and her husband had their daughter (my sister was 26 at the time). In fact of the five children my parents had, none of us got pregnant as teenagers (my brothers never knocked anyone up as teenagers). We are all college educated and we are all pretty freaking awesome human beings.
Shit happens. Teenagers get pregnant. Are they supposed to punish her? And if so, how long? Are they supposed to punish her until the baby is born? Or, until baby is in school? What’s the statute of limitations on something like that?
Or, are they supposed to be supportive and accept that Katilyn is on the way and a part of their family? I’m not trying to get heated, but I do hate it when people write someone off as a statistic based solely on assumptions.
You don’t even know that Chickadee wasn’t using birth control – condoms are only 85% effective in preventing pregnancy after all. Every type of birth control with the exception of sterilization has a failure rate. And sometimes even sterilization procedures don’t take the first time around (and here I thought I wouldn’t have a “The more you know” moment in this recap).
Also:
“You would have seriously loved my garnets and smoky topaz.”
@plath – yes you said your mom had you when she was young, but the point is that YOU didn’t follow suit. She obviously taught you well. Kaitlyn is the daughter of a teen mom, who was also the daughter of a teen mom. And maybe further back than that, who knows? Look up the stats on that and I think you’ll find that Kaitlyn’s chances of being a teen mom are pretty high.
Yes, accidents happen, but June had one at 15 then ANOTHER ONE at 17. Was that really another accident or maybe was she cashing in at that point?? C’mon, she had 4 kids with 4 different men and started when she was 15 yrs old – you gonna tell me that they were all accidents that happened when she was responsibly using birth control??
Full disclosure: My grandmother was 15 when she had my mom. So again, daughter of a teen mom who was also a daughter of a teen mom. And as for birth control, I’m not talking about June and how many kids she had.
I am simply saying that you don’t know Chickadee’s circumstances and neither can you flat out say that Kaitlyn, a kid who is being born into a loving family and whose mother has a support system to help raise her, is going to end up exactly like her mother.
But, like I said, I respectfully disagree with your view point. So, we can totally leave it at that.
I have to wonder if Mama Kard does not understand that the way she feels about the HB2 gang is pretty much how people see her?
I have never watched the Kardashians. Just seeing them by chance on the internet makes me cringe. I am completely clueless that people LOOOOVE them and actually admire them???
At least there is a silly little kid on HB2.
The main reason people watch “Keeping Up With The Kardashians” is the main reason people watch “Here Comes Honey Boo Boo.” And that is family togetherness. If you strip away the superficial layers of each show the core and center of both tv shows is exactly the same. Which is a very close family who all love and support each other. And that is why people like and watch both shows even if they might seem like polar opposites or two extremes at first. They’re not. They’re just two sides of the same coin. I find it weird that no one really notices that, especially Mama K.
@Plath. Good for your mother raising great kids that broke the pattern! That doesn’t happen too often but it did in your family and that’s awesome.
You said, “I’m not talking about June and how many kids she had.” Why not? You’re supposed to recapping this show and that’s what it is about. You seem to like this family so much that you don’t want to hear any criticism about them. An odd attitude for a tvgasm recapper. Usually these recaps make fun of the reality stars, they don’t praise them.
Vodka for gummy bears? Oh come on folks. Hello RUMMY BEARS.
I didn’t say the baby will end up like her mother. I said she would be better off in a two parent home with adult parents. That is just the truth. Can’t argue that. I always advocate for adoption with these kind of situations. Just look at “Teen Mom” on MTV. The Teen Mom that is the most happy and drama free is the mom who gave her baby up to a loving family. It does not take Scooby Doo to figure out that mystery. You are the exception. Your siblings are exceptions. Good for you. Most don’t beat the statistics. Also as someone watches super responsible adult loving infertile families wait for years for a baby to adopt, it makes me mad to see 15 year olds having babies. Flame away.
@labowner, I never considered rum because it’s so sweet and gummy bears are sweet and I didn’t hink past the sweetness. But, we are dealing with gummy bears. Now I have to try Rummy Bears.
@April, Kaitlyn has an adult (legally) mother and two grandparents. They may not be the parents that you would choose. They may not the grandparents or even overall family that you would choose. But, she has a family that will love her and take care of her. My issues with the family’s diet are totally aside (and you guys know how I feel about their diet) in this discussion. She has a protective family unit that will take care of her and love her into adult hood.
If you will simply accept that I disagree with you without condescending to me as though I were somehow missing some HUGE IMPORTANT STATISTIC, I think we will be just fine. But, I take offense at your saying that me and my siblings are the exception. Especially, when I consider how many families I know that have the same history.
Also, since there are no 15-year-olds having babies on this show, why would you even bring it up as something flame worthy?
Unless, you really want to start a flame war, in which case, forget I said anything. Flame wars are awesome and earn me more cheeseballs!
A Melli… I don’t think “family togetherness” is the main reason people are watching HB2. I think it is because they are “bats in the belfry” crazy. (I mean come ON… where else would you see girls in bikinis diving for raw pigs feet???)
The fact that they like one another and get along is just a pleasant surprise amongst the insanity.
The Kardashians? I will take your word for it. Like I said, just seeing one of them on the net makes me nauseous.
I agree. I think initially people only tuned in to honey boo boo to see outrageous redneck behavior just as people initially tune into the Kardashians to see outrageous lifestyles of the rich and famous play out before them. But I think what makes people stick around is witnessing loving, supportive families who actually enjoy spending time with one another. Superficial fluff can only be entertaining for so long.
The Kardashians and Honey Boo Boo are two very different extremes. Neither is better than the other. They both have their flaws. They’re both disgusting in their own ways. They’re both endearing in their own ways as well.
@melli, I agree.
@Sharon
I mean come ON… where else would you see girls in bikinis diving for raw pigs feet???
Any local TV station in Georgia showing the redneck games as a “special interest” story?
Seriously, am I some sort of freak without realizing it? I have never seen so many people up in arms about what I see all the time at the supermarket or even as a part of my own family.
Am I missing something? Because my feelings are starting to get hurt simply because I don’t see this family as awful or disgusting.
Maybe Kris sees it as June doing the same thing she did. When a $ opportunity came knocking, they both sent the natural abilities they and their whole family’s got to the door.
The Kardashians started off with more than most people will ever have. Even before Kim’s sex tape. Kris took that and built their empire up to billionaire. Then she put her 13 yr girl out to bikini model.
June’s starting out with a family that needs things like teeth and another bathroom right now. Not to mention 4 girls and a grandbaby that’ll need $ even just to learn a trade. To get a chance to make more than minimum wage. When Alana said something about looking sexy, June gave her The Look and said cute in her stern Because I Said So voice.
So they’re definitely different in their goals and their thinking.
Watching both shows is where their biggest differences show up though.
You’ll laugh at both of them. But June and them are laughing along with you! They just give off a good feeling. So you go around with a smile.
For all the forklift foot, rolling in the mud waller. And eating cheese balls off the floor. When you think about both families it’s the Kardashians that make you feel disgusted.
“When you think about both families it’s the Kardashians that make you feel disgusted.”
I am pretty much disgusted with most reality show “stars”.
TC, Robin
@Robin LOL me too! So if they don’t that’s when I sit up and take notice.
I know my good opinion could come back and bite me in the butt. June’s walking a tight rope right now. I bet there’s millions of people just itching to sit her down. And give her advice.
Because all it’d take is 1 little thing. For fans to turn on a dime.
Plus it’s early days. We can’t know her heart. Or the future. She could get her head turned. And go from wanting a better life for her family to wanting $ for its own sake.
I hope not though. The other day somebody in real life said what surprised them was how they love their sweet old 9 toed Uncle Poodle.
Even though it means going against the ways of where they live. But their attitude is like he’s our Uncle Poodle and the ways can kiss our butt. Stuff like that can inspire people. Even to the point of saving lives in some places.
@PlathAddict I’m the most unpositive commenter on all the 16 & Teen Mom shows. But I think Kaitlyn’s got a better chance of a good outcome than anybody I’ve seen on there. Not to get in a tangent. But I know what you mean. It’s not just how the girl is. But if it’s a situation that’s set up for it.
@Plath …Seeing the pigs feet doesn’t bother me in the least… but seeing people chomp on raw ones… NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!
@Sharon, maybe the pigs’ feet weren’t raw, but pickled. A family treat when I was growing up was a lunch of pickled pigs’ feet. That was in Chicago, IL, not rural GA.
“The one thing I simply won’t tolerate is intolerance.”
Lest we forget:
“You would have seriously loved my garnets and smoky topaz.”
what was with all those gnats around the toe??? I didnt think the toe looked bad. OH, I still cant eat a biscuit.
I don’t understand all the hostility toward this family, either. They love each other and their values are good. I think Baby Kaitlyn is beginning her life in a better situation than many, many children born in two-parent families.
personally I can’t stand the Kardashians and all they stand for or are trying to stand for. I would rather watch a child try to have fun then to watch adults, one that is famous for her sex tape, yeap that’s something to be so proud of, behalf like they are all that and more. As for Kris Jenner, suck it up sunshine.
Watching T&T makes you laugh, scream, shake your head in disgust and yell at lot at the tv. It’s a train wreck of a show. When June first appeared, I had my nose curled up in disgust with the coupons and all that. Now I have to say I am still disgusted, but I see a strong family bond there that really don’t care what you think of them or their actions. Darlene the deer made me cringe but it’s a fact of life as well. Teen mom’s happen that’s a fact of life today, it doesn’t matter why it happend but it did. The baby is going to grow up with a strong support system in it’s life and that’s what matters.
Maybe I am misinformed. I thought the one having the baby was the 15 year old? How old is the teen mom? I guess we will have to disagree because I know way more failure stories when it comes to teen parents than success stories. Maybe you see what you want to see. Maybe I see what I want to see. Maybe I see the truth.
Plathaddict: Living in the South too, I see families like them all the time every time I go to Walmart. So you are not alone.
My husband made a joke about how teenage boys should hang out in the baby section of our local Walmart to get a date because it is always filled with all the teen moms and we KNOW they put out.
Even though I see it a lot does not mean I am okay with it.
I am also going to argue that Kailyn is better off than any other babies on “Teen Mom”. She is not better off than Carly. Carly has the “perfect” family. Two educated adult middle class employed parents who wanted a baby so much they went through all the adoption rigmarole to get her.
@April – the girl on HBB having the baby is 17. But June was 15 when she had her so that’s prob where you got confused.
oh that makes sense. Thanks for clarifying Jazzy. Seventeen is better than 15, but not by much. I know in our state you are not an adult till 18 so it could be argued whether she is actually an adult even technically or not. I thought it was 18 in Georgia too.
“Carly has the “perfect” family. Two educated adult middle class employed parents who wanted a baby so much they went through all the adoption rigmarole to get her.”
So did I. They were so “perfect”, it took years of therapy as an adult for me (and my adopted sibling) to realize how crazy they really were.
The grass is always greener until you get to the other side and realize it is only astro-turf.
@snowshoe cat
No, they really were raw. June even commented on the fact that they were raw.
My grandmother used to cook pickled pigs feet when I was a little girl. She lived in a rooming house and the whole neighborhood knew when she was cooking them. She absolutely loved them. It was one of the few things that she did just for herself.
She was such a good cook, I have often wondered what I missed out on by not sitting down at the table with her when she made them and digging in.
And, don’t try to cloud my mind with tales of garnets and smoky topaz! You know that I can resist anything but those two items. I am filled with lust for your gems.
I have my episodes 7 and 8 taping for tonight. Hopefully I don’t delete one of them LOL
I absolutely loved this recap
Thank you 
We follow a few recaps here but this is my first time posting…
I have 3 kids and while I did lose my baby weight with the first 2 I still have to lose the weight from my 3rd (she’s 9). I agree that June is in on the “joke” and having a good sense of humor is sometimes one of the best things you can teach your kids. I’ve been to Walmart but am more of a Target girl and I totally agree that the less you have the more you give. My girls and I love this family. They genuinely enjoy each other for who they are and they are happy. You don’t always need to have a lot to have fun and in our family farts are funny too!
I absolutely loved by 2 episodes last night except when they went shopping in the dumpster. They didn’t put the stuff back and left it laying around and I do not accept that at all.
@ Sharon, c’mon. It isn’t my gems.
Just imagining the smell of them being cooked makes me realize why they were frequently pickled.
The pigs’ feet, not the gems.
please, can anyone tell me where can I see the last episode? thanks a lot!
I felt bad for Alana, by now she must know that Queen means you lost, and she’s been kind of taught to aim for Ultimate Nacho Cheese Supreme by osmosis – you go to enough pageants and you just seem to absorb the understanding that ‘Future Queen’, ‘Princess’ and ‘Queen’ are just nice ways of saying ‘You sucked pageant patootie’, no matter how young you are.
Alana is adorable, but she really needs to take dance classes or gymnastics or even swimming to increase her co-ordination, grace and overall fitness. She is beautiful no matter what her size, but it would be better for her to be healthy and beautiful, and if she does work on her co-ordination and sticks with a coach and regular practice she could be good – but she’s going to need the TLC money to fund the hair, make-up and costumes because, as several pageant directors on T&T have candidly admitted, the girl whose family invest the most win.
Someone mentioned a few weeks back that she probably won’t win at her weight, but there have been heavier girls who have won supreme titles on T&T before, and in all likelihood she will get a Supreme title the next time she’s on the show, albeit a Novice Supreme or maybe Personality Supreme. There have been judges who have commented on weight before, but mostly it doesn’t seem to be an issue.
Sorry to double post, but I hadn’t read all the comments when I first posted.
Kids on reality shows are NOT bound by the same protection laws as children in films and scripted television. ‘Child actors’ are required to have tutors and there are laws protecting their income. Alana has none of that. California has worked on correcting the issue, but a lot of shows that focus heavily on kids – 19 Kids and Counting, Toddlers & Tiaras, Eden’s world, HCHBB and so forth – aren’t filmed in California so unless the US government decides to write up some kind of nationwide law about reality shows these kids aren’t going to see a cent of the money unless they’re over 18, in which case they aren’t children any more, or get an education while they’re filming.
I get the sense that June wouldn’t allow the kids to miss school to be on the show. I hope that’s right. I also hope that maybe some of the TLC cash goes towards a college fund or two, I’m not going to write of aspirations of higher education because of teen pregnancies and multiple baby daddies.
Oh, crap. Triple post. But I can’t let ‘write of’ go. Write OFF.
By the way, I’m not an expert when it comes to child protection laws, but was a child actor myself (albeit in a different country) and I’m aware of the situation of reality show kids because of my association with the Duggar snarkdom, where there are long discussions about how the kids are getting gypped out of substantial income because of a lack of protection for reality show kidlets. Georgia definitely has no laws protecting reality kids.
Hundo – had to Cranky.
My father was Ukraine, first generation, and I was raised on the smell of cooking pigs feet, jellied pigs feet, herring rolls and all that stuff. Makes me shiver now with disgust but that’s what he was raised on and liked.
I see many teen moms here where in the city I work in, I have friends that are grandparents in their early 40′s. Sex happens and babies are born. I just hope they have a strong family network to help them through it all.
I have to say I see June being “Mom of the Year” compare to Mickie. Has anyone actually heard anything about Eden since the show ended? I would have thought Mickie would have been “pushing her out there” to show up June and the show.