Reality television star Mama June Shannon is rocking amazing weight loss after morbid obesity but daughters "Honey Boo Boo" Alana Thompson, Lauryn "Pumpkin" Shannon, and Shannon's personal trainer Kenya Crooks agree she's still got health issues. Since dropping as much as 330 pounds, the star of "From Not to Hot" still feels fat. Bariatric surgery, dieting, workouts and skin removal plastic surgery fixed the outside. Now June has to fix her inner demons: self fat-shaming and anorexia-like thinking.
Mama June lost 330 pounds?
On her new reality television show "Mama June: From Not to Hot" Shannon boasts that she is now size 4 after weighing around 460 pounds.
WE tv has been cagey on actual weight loss numbers and will likely save those details for later episodes. But size 4 would mean the mom of four has dropped down as low as 130 pounds and 10-14 dress sizes. Shannon boasted a 150-lb weight loss last year. But "Botched" doctors denied her a tummy tuck, saying plastic surgery was too risky. Honey Boo Boo and Mama June also appeared on "The Doctors" last year. Did Shannon heed their warnings on obesity, Type 2 diabetes and heart trouble and lose some 330 pounds?
Mama June wears fat suit inside and out
"From Not to Hot" promises to show how Mama June Shannon transformed herself with gastric bypass surgery, several kinds of plastic surgery, dieting and exercise.
While filming the reality TV show, the ex-celebrity of TLC had to wear a fat suit to hide weight loss. Fans felt a bit put out by the subtrefuge but Honey Boo Boo's sister Pumpkin said it was necessary to keep the surprise. Her personal trainer and Pumpkin think June seems to be wearing a fat suit in her mind, too. The 37-year-old can't shake off the image of her former obesity.
Pumpkin nails Mama June's body-shaming
Working with Shannon so closely, her trainer got to know the mom pretty well. Kenya Crooks identified the problem as well as the solution. He says she's used to wearing a "fat suit"-- dumpy clothing to hide heavieness. She walks and moves like a heavier person. Now Shannon has to learn to think thin.
Pumpkin astutely noted that anorexia-like fat-shaming makes her mother see fat where it used to exist but doesn't anymore. The 17-year-old says that since gastric bypass surgery, skin removal surgery (like a body "tummy tuck") and breast implant procedure, her mama has curves instead of fat. Honey Boo Boo came around and acknowledged that weight loss was good for her high-profile parent.
