Honey Boo Boo’s sister Lauryn ‘Pumpkin’ Shannon is reportedly set to welcome twins in June with her husband.
The 22-year-old reality star is already mother to two children with Joshua Efrid, who she tied the knot with in 2018.
They are parents to four-year-old daughter Ella Grace and baby boy Bentley Jameson, who will turn one in July.
, the couple is expecting a boy and a girl around June 18.
This grows sister Alana ‘Honey Boo Boo’ Thompson’s number of nieces and nephews, as well as mother June ‘’ Shannon’s grandkids, which also include Kaitlyn and Kylee from oldest Shannon sibling Anna.
The family first found fame through the TLC series Toddlers & Tiaras in 2011, which featured Honey Boo Boo, now 16, and Mama June, 42, on the children’s beauty pageant circuit, before their popularity allowed them their own reality spin-off, , which featured siblings Anna, Lauryn and Jessica alongside other extended family members.
The family has garnered millions of social media followers between them, as well as other television appearances.
Most recently, Honey Boo Boo and Mama June took part in and performed ’s hit song Party In The USA while .
Speaking to host Nick Cannon and judges Jenny McCarthy, Ken Jeong and Robin Thicke afterwards, Mama June explained that one of the clues in their package, which stated they had spent time apart, referenced her drug addiction.
‘I was away from my kids for two years,’ she explained. ‘Now, I’m fixing to celebrate two years clean.
‘So this is the first project outside of our show that we have done together. It feels kind of nice.’
Last year, Mama June revealed in six months while addicted to cocaine as she opened up about her struggles to Andy Cohen.
‘It’s kind of crazy when you think about the dollar amount,’ she said at the time.
‘In a year we probably spent over a million dollars, because our habit was $3,500 (£2,500) to $4,000 (£2,950) a day.’
In September, Honey Boo Boo went Instagram official with her 20-year-old boyfriend Dralin Carswell but deleted the photo following .
Although the couple has four years between them, they reside in Georgia, where the age of consent is 16.
Honey Boo Boo’s sister Anna also defended her after she faced over her body size.
The 27-year-old told : ‘Alana is beautiful. There are models like Ashley Graham who are 200 pounds, and she has huge contracts.
‘I mean, hell, Victoria’s Secret is working with plus sized models. Does weight even matter?’
She also said she hoped her youngest sister had ‘given encouragement’ to others, ‘and courage’, following her modelling.
Metro.co.uk has contacted Lauryn’s reps for comment.
