Honey Boo Boo is almost ready to graduate!
The former child star, now 17, has just 30 days left as a senior, and it appears she’s going all out to celebrate.
The Toddlers & Tiaras star, actual name Alana Thompson, astonished everyone by posing in a pink hat and gown and expressing how quickly time had passed.
‘I have less than 30 days until I graduate,’ the teen wrote excitedly.
She added to her 1.1million followers: ‘I am so proud of myself and how far I have become there were points that I didn’t even think I would make it this far but I made it. 🎓’
The Instagram post included a series of photos of Alana outside her Georgia high school, wearing trousers with ‘class of 2023’ printed down the thigh and a sweatshirt with the word ‘senior.’
She also posed with balloons in a pink satin gown with a gold ‘2023’ tassel on her hat.
Her fans expressed their delight with Alana’s achievement in the comments section.
‘Alana you look beautiful!!!!! I still remember you when you had blond curls and and the sweetest face ever!’, one person wrote as they reminisced.
‘Congratulations boo-boo the sky is the limit go far above and beyond you got this girl’, another wrote.
‘You look Beautiful. You’ve been thru so much in your life. So very Proud of you!! Congratulations 👩🏼🎓🦇🌷🌷’, another penned.
Feeling all nostalgic, another follower commented: ‘Omg I remember seeing you start high school on the show and now your graduating! You did that! Time flies’.
Alana’s prom pics did a great job of making us all feel ancient recently.
The beauty pageant contestant recently celebrated her birthday in a floor-length gown.
Alana arrived to prom on a horse-drawn carriage, decked up in brilliant pink glitter, accompanied her partner Dralin Carswell, 21.
Alana rose to prominence in 2012 owing to Toddlers & Tiaras, but the pageant queen and her family quickly became the centre of attention when TLC commissioned Here Comes Honey Boo Boo.
Her family members became an instant sensation with reality TV fans, and Alana memes and gifs are still everywhere.
She has, however, previously spoken about her struggles with growing up in the public glare.
Alana discussed the drawbacks of childhood celebrity with Teen Vogue ahead of her 16th birthday.
‘I guess people still expect me to be little Honey Boo Boo and I’m not anymore,’ she stated.
‘Just because I’m from the south, people expect me to be all country bumpkin, out riding four-wheelers all the time, but that’s not really how it is… but I do not care. As long as I like myself, I’m good.’
Alana, then 15, was eager to abandon the persona she’d established in the past in order to make a reputation for herself.
‘They are completely two different people,’ she said, referring to Honey Boo Boo known by the internet, and Alana, who she really is.
‘I would say that I do like this Alana now, rather than the younger Alana,’ she mused. ‘I don’t ever look at people and I’m like, “Oh, I wish I was like her”. Because I don’t ever wish to be like nobody. I am my own person.’
Recalling her struggle to make real friendship connections, she stated: ‘I feel like folks are so much like, “Oh, my God, I’m friends with Honey Boo Boo.”
‘To be honest, I do not have many friends. At all. I don’t trust nobody really, so I don’t have friends.’
Despite their age gap, she has stated that her lover may be her ‘sole friend’.
The couple has decided to keep much of their courtship private, although they have published the occasional Instagram snapshot, which has often drawn criticism.
According to The Sun, they began dating in 2020, with Alana’s family’s OK.
Her first public relationship is with Dralin.
Source My Celebrity Life.
