{"id":1563149,"date":"2022-07-20T15:34:06","date_gmt":"2022-07-20T19:34:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1563149"},"modified":"2022-07-20T15:34:14","modified_gmt":"2022-07-20T19:34:14","slug":"honey-boo-boo-star-alana-thompson-16-will-have-weight-loss-surgery-this-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/honey-boo-boo-star-alana-thompson-16-will-have-weight-loss-surgery-this-summer\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Honey Boo Boo\u2019 Star Alana Thompson, 16, Will Have Weight Loss Surgery This Summer"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fhoney-boo-boo-star-alana-thompson-16-will-have-weight-loss-surgery-this-summer%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1563149&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/reality-tv\">Here Comes Honey Boo Boo<\/a>\u201d alum and former child beauty pageant contestant <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/celebrities\">Alana Thompson<\/a>, 16, is heading to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/new-york-city\">New York City<\/a> for weight loss surgery, her manager told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2022\/07\/20\/honey-boo-boo-alana-thompson-weight-loss-surgery\/\">TMZ<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Thompson is getting the procedure done just after her 17th birthday this August. Dr. Steven Batash\u00a0will perform suture sculpt endoscopic sleeve gastroplasty, which is a non-surgical outpatient procedure that reduces the functional volume of the stomach by up to 70-80%, according to the doctor\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/batashmedical.com\/endoscopic-sleeve-gastroplasty\/\">website<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The site also says that patients will need \u201ca solid commitment to a healthy lifestyle, including exercise and dietary intake\u201d for \u201clong-term success.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Thompson currently weighs 275 pounds and would like to lose a significant amount of weight to reach her goal of 150 pounds, according to TMZ. She said she fears being overweight is genetic and the only way to lose it is through a weight loss procedure. Thompson\u2019s 20-year-old boyfriend, Dralin Carswell, will be getting the surgery too, TMZ reported.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cHoney Boo Boo\u201d star has struggled with her weight for her whole life. In the past, she spoke with fans about trying to lose weight naturally, but has so far been unsuccessful.<\/p>\n<p>Thompson\u2019s guardian and half-sister, Pumpkin (Lauryn Efird), gave permission for the teen to get the procedure. She was awarded custody of her younger sibling after their mother was arrested in 2019 for drug possession.<\/p>\n<p>Pumpkin also lost weight recently, only she opted not to have surgery.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Their mother, \u201cMama June\u201d Shannon, also underwent weight loss surgery and lost more than 300 pounds. Her journey was the subject of the reality series \u201cMama June: From Not to Hot,\u201d which premiered in 2017 and ran for 5 seasons. Besides bariatric surgery, she also got a tummy tuck, breast augmentation, liposuction, a neck lift, arm lifts, and porcelain veneers.<\/p>\n<p>Mama June spoke with <a href=\"https:\/\/toofab.com\/2021\/03\/20\/mama-june-weight-loss-jessica-plastic-surgery\/\">TooFab<\/a> about why she gained weight following the surgery and how she was happy about it.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith my weight loss, I have as I like to tell people, gained that healthy Covid weight. I\u2019ve put on probably about 60-70 pounds,\u201d the reality star said. \u201cAm I happy the way I am? Yeah. When I was a size 2 at 150, I was way too damn small. Now I\u2019m 250 and I feel good. Even when I was 500, people didn\u2019t believe I was 500,\u201d she continued.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cHere Comes Honey Boo Boo\u201d alum and former child beauty pageant contestant Alana Thompson, 16, is heading to New York City for weight loss surgery, her manager told TMZ. Thompson is getting the procedure done just after her 17th birthday this August. Dr. Steven Batash\u00a0will perform suture sculpt endoscopic sleeve gastroplasty, which is a non-surgical &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1574716,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1563149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1563149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1563149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1563149\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1574716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1563149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1563149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1563149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}