14 DAY TRIAL // Mama June and her 9-year-old daughter, Honey Boo Boo, both unhealthily overweight, agreed to tape a special for CBS’ The Doctors, one that should have seen them get to a much healthier weight thanks to a customized diet plan and workout routine.
The special aired this week and further put Mama June in a very negative light, because, even though for 10 weeks she’d been on the diet / workout plan, Honey Boo Boo failed to lose a single pound. This brought into question her mother’s desire to help her, with the specialists on the show grilling and blaming Mama June.
She’s fighting back on social media.
Honey Boo Boo is losing weight, The Doctors are liars
The Instagram post embedded below is from Mama June and Honey Boo Boo’s joint feed: it’s a photo of the 9-year-old (real name Alana Thompson) giving a thumbs-up, with a stack of bottled water in the background. This is jab at the claim made on the show that Mama June (aka June Thompson) was still giving Alana sweetened fizzy drinks, even though she’d been urged by the show’s nutritionist not to do so.
In a lengthy caption, June vents about the way she was portrayed on the show and tries to convince whatever fans she still has left that she was pretty much set up to look like a failure.
CBS is yet to respond to her claims.
Either way, she says Alana lost 8 pounds (3.6 kg) over the last month by eating smaller portions, thanks to personal trainer Natasha Fett, and walking or getting some other type of exercise daily. It’s true that she didn’t lose weight during the experiment for The Doctors, but there’s more to the story than what was shown on the special.
First things first, Mama June charges, the show is a fake.
“just so everyone knows I want the truth out there I'm sorry but in the mth the show ‘THE DOCTORS’ was in our lives she lost nothing they wanted her to fail I feel from the beginning they air the rest of the show tomorrow we wasn't on a 10 wk program like they want y'all to believe they flew us back in almost a mth after the first appearance and they separate this show that will air tomorrow but in real life it was filmed back on April so I know they r going to make it looks like we don't care but we do,” she writes.
Mama June, the most irresponsible mother in the world
That’s how Mama June came across from The Doctors appearance, as you can also see in the videos below.
She was repeatedly told that, at 125 pounds (56.7 kg), her 9-year-old daughter was severely obese and that the few health issues she was experiencing already, like shortness of breath, were only the beginning.
She was informed that, if she and her entire family didn’t change their eating habits, they were facing a death sentence because of obesity, and she made it clear that she understood it all. She promised they would all help Alana lose the weight by doing the program as well, and thus reap the benefits as well.
When the specialists reconnected with Mama June at the end of the trial, they were shocked to see that Alana hadn’t lost weight at all, which led them to conclude that she had not been on the diet this whole time, if ever at all.
Naturally, they scolded the mother for not being more responsible about the health and wellbeing of her child. Obviously, Mama June doesn’t take kindly to criticism, even if it’s for her own good.
Oh k cause everyone wants to know how alana doing she has lost almost 8 pds from 125.5 to 118 so Far in a mth im so proud of her... just by eating smaller portions and walking and with the encouraging support even 3000 miles away from our personal trainer @natashafett. ..just so everyone knows I want the truth out there I'm sorry but in the mth the show "THE DOCTORS" was in our lives she lost nothing they wanted her to fail I feel from the beginning they air the rest of the show tomorrow we wasn't on a 10 wk program like they want y'all to believe they flew us back in almost a mth after the first appearance and they separate this show that will air tomorrow but in real life it was filmed back on April so I know they r going to make it looks like we don't care but we do I mama June have lost 45 pds in a lil over a mth pumpkin @blowin_ur_mind15 has lost 26 pds in a lil over mth and all cause the awesome support of one person that came into our lives @natashafett believe us or not but she is awesome supportive encouraged us when we felt like we couldn't or didn't what to do it she was always a call or text away encouraging telling us we r doing awesome and this is what has helped us not just the support of us as a family unit but the support from someone who genuinely cares about us successful getting healthier and changing your minds and this is truth my side of things I'm proud of the changes alana pumpkin and myself have made and continue to make its not hard to it it's a mind over matter and yes im not going to lie it was hard at first but with the right support team in your corner and I want to thank u @GRMediaFirm for introducing natasha into our lives she has really made a HUGE difference in us and we thank u from the bottom of our hearts ...ššš A photo posted by June-alana Shannon (@real_honeybooboo_mamajune31054) on May 19, 2015 at 6:33pm PDT