What To Know About Her Marriage & Previous Exes – Hollywood Life

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• Mama June is a actuality TV icon.
• She is finest recognized for TLC’s hit ‘Right here Comes Honey Boo Boo.’
• She is at the moment married to Justin Stroud after two ceremonies.
• Mama June has a number of exes and has repeatedly courted drama in her relationships.

Mama June, 43, is a fortunately married girl! However the TLC actuality star, whose final identify is Shannon, hasn’t had it straightforward on the subject of relationships. Earlier than she settled in with Justin Stroud after two wedding ceremony ceremonies, (one non-public, one very public) she had a string of relationships that had been generally fraught with drama. None of them lasted, however she did have kids with a few of them, resulting in much more well-known household relationships for the matriarch.

From the early days on TLC to at present, right here’s every thing to learn about every of Mama June’s severe relationships.

David Dunn

Mama June was simply 15 years within the Nineteen Nineties outdated when she had her first daughter, Anna “Chickadee” Cardwell, together with her boyfriend on the time, David Dunn. David and June by no means married, however he did go on to some alleged notable felony exercise. David was arrested in 1995 and 1998 for theft of a handgun and cigarettes, respectively.

David by no means did seem on tv, however he did inform The Nationwide Enquirer in 2012 that he needed to know his daughter. “Anna appears identical to me,” he reportedly instructed the outlet. He additional alleged that Mama June wouldn’t let him see her. “They need­ed me to signal away my rights to Anna, however I refused. I don’t know who my very own daddy is, and I at all times need Anna to know who her father is. However June gained’t let me see her.”

Anna later stated that she didn’t know her father till he was launched from jail work element.

Michael Anthony Ford

The TV star’s subsequent relationship can be with Michael Anthony Ford. Michael is the generally rumored father of Lauryn Michelle “Pumpkin” Shannon Efird, born on January 7, 2000, and is the confirmed father of Jessica ‘Chubbs’ Shannon, who was born in October of 1996. They dated for just a few months earlier than Mama June turned pregnant with Jessica.

Mama June herself claimed he’s the daddy of each. “Jessica and Pumpkin have the identical dad, however Jessica’s dad has had nothing to do together with her through the years,” she instructed Leisure Tonight in 2014.. “So, why the hell would I open up that may of worms till at present? I lied to my household and instructed them it was anyone else.”

In any case, Michael did nothing to dampen the household’s historical past of drama. Again in 2005, he spent over two years in jail for sexual exploitation of a minor on-line and thus turned a registered intercourse offender. He additionally allegedly wrote unhealthy checks and was caught shoplifting at an area Wal Mart.

“June and I solely dated for a number of months, and he or she turned pregnant,” he instructed The Nationwide Enquirer. “I left June and went with an­different girl a month earlier than Jessica was born. Now I can’t see my daughter. The final time I known as and requested to see her, they instructed me if I got here down there, I’d be arrested for harassment.” He additionally claimed to have paid $300 per thirty days in little one assist “for years.”

Mark McDaniel

Mama June’s relationship with convicted little one intercourse offender Mark McDaniel could also be her most notorious. He was round when Lauryn was born, and he or she was really raised for a time with the assumption that Mark was her father. He confessed guilt in an aggravated little one molestation cost in opposition to him in 2003. Sadly, Anna Chickadee was recognized because the sufferer within the sexual abuse case.

Even worse, June later returned to Mark in 2014 and started relationship him once more. The transfer has continued to trigger pressure on the connection between Mama June and her eldest daughter.

Mike ‘Sugar Bear’ Thompson

Mike “Sugar Bear” Thompson is thought for being June’s longest relationship — and for displaying up in occasional appearances on Mama June: From To not Sizzling. Much more notably, he’s the daddy of her most well-known little one, Alana Frances “Honey Boo Boo” Thompson, born August 28, 2005. In an episode of Marriage Boot Camp: Actuality Stars, Sugar Bear admitted to dishonest on Mama June with each women and men, and he or she later accused him of being abusive in the course of the relationship — he flatly denied the allegations.

Mike went on to marry Jennifer Lamb Thompson, however they cut up in January of 2022.

Eugene ‘Geno’ Doak

The TV character subsequent dated building employee Eugene Doak — one other love curiosity with a major felony file and two kids from a earlier relationship. They took up collectively in 2017 and dated till 2021, however not earlier than a home violence incident stirred up vital press consideration at a fuel station in Alabama. Each had been allegedly in possession of medicine, and Geno allegedly threatened to kill her in the course of the altercation.

The duo by no means did grow to be engaged, regardless of Mama June’s stress to get married. He introduced her with a promise ring as an alternative.

Justin Stroud

Mama June and WE TV star Justin Stroud had been a match made to final from the start. They admittedly met by way of TikTok, and had been married in a super-secret ceremony in March of 2022.  “We turned mates initially, and he didn’t know who Mama June was when he met me,” she instructed HollywoodLife EXCLUSIVELY throughout a podcast interview. “I had been instructed I wasn’t his kind, that he wasn’t single. Nevertheless it seems I used to be his kind, and he was single!”

They later exchanged vows once more in an all-out seaside ceremony in Panama Metropolis, Florida, in February of 2023. Heartwarmingly, all of Mama June’s 4 daughters had been in attendance and walked their mom down the aisle.

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