Mama June Shannon has made quite the transformation in the past year. The 38-year-old reality star and mom dropped 300 pounds from 460 pounds and the result is remarkable. She credits mainly portion control though we have to admit, some of her other tips are a little out there.
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We've seen Mama June evolve through all these years. Honey Boo Boo's mom made her TV debut on a season of TLC's Toddlers & Tiaras, which featured her daughter Alana Thompson, a.k.a Honey Boo Boo, who was 6 years old at the time and competing in beauty pageants. The show centered on child pageant queens and Honey Boo Boo was such a breakout, there were memes with her catchphrases: "redneckonize" and "a dolla makes me holla."
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Shortly after, TLC gave Alana a spinoff show called Here Comes Honey Boo Boo, which focused on her family in Georgia and after three season the show ended in 2014, but Mama June's dramatic weight loss lead to another spinoff called Mama June: From Not to Hot, which documents how she lost those impressive 300 pounds. The second season debuts on Friday, January 12.