Honey Boo Boo Reveals Why She Won’t Get Married Just Yet

The fact star additionally shared her need to have kids sometime, however solely when the timing feels proper.

Now 19 and targeted on her nursing research, Honey Boo Boo is balancing younger maturity, love, and life after actuality TV with shocking readability.

In a current unique interview with E! Information, Honey Boo Boo confirmed that she and Carswell, who’ve been courting since 2021, are in a superb place however aren’t dashing down the aisle.

She cited the fee and stress of planning a marriage as the explanations behind their determination.

“Not till after college, in all probability. Simply because it’s so costly and a marriage is plenty of work,” she advised correspondent Will Marfuggi.

Nonetheless, the tv persona added that marriage was “sooner or later,” suggesting she and Carswell are dedicated however taking issues at their very own tempo.

“I wish to have children finally. I don’t wish to have plenty of children—I would like possibly two, that’s it—however not for a very long time,” she advised the outlet.

Honey Boo Boo might make sure about wanting children sometime, however the actress isn’t sure about elevating her kids in entrance of cameras.

The previous little one star, who grew up within the highlight, advised Marfuggi she didn’t need her children to expertise the hate from fame.

“I’ve been within the highlight for thus lengthy. I’ve simply seen all of the hate that I bought once I was youthful. I don’t know if I’d wish to put my child by that. I would simply wait till they get sufficiently old to make that call for themselves,” she defined.

The fact TV persona’s journey to stardom started when she was solely 5 years outdated.

On the time, Thompson was filming an interview on TLC’s “Toddlers and Tiaras” when she mentioned, “A greenback made me holler, honey boo boo,” birthing her nickname.

Whereas that second was etched in TV historical past, the years that adopted weren’t rosy. In an unique chat with PEOPLE Magazine forward of the discharge of her biopic, Alana Thompson recounted her horrible expertise as a toddler star.

The “Right here Comes Honey Boo Boo” star advised the outlet that in her upcoming Lifetime movie, “I Was Honey Boo Boo,” she didn’t assume twice earlier than pouring out every little thing she and her late sister Anna went by within the arms of their mother, Mama June.

“I’m just a little nervous. I didn’t need this film to be throwing punches at my mama and making her out to be the unhealthy man. However I didn’t maintain again, and if she will get mad, on the finish of the day, it’s the reality,” she mentioned.

Honey Boo Boo additionally detailed how their household life collapsed, all due to Mama June’s drug habit.

“I observed one thing was off about her,” she mentioned of that point. “She began locking her doorways, which actually made me assume, ‘Oh, what’s she doing?’”

Finally, Mama June and her then-boyfriend Eugene Doak bought arrested in March 2019 and have been charged with felony drug possession. Honey Boo Boo mentioned it was a tough time in her life, particularly as she was nonetheless at school.

“Folks have been like, ‘I noticed your mama on the information with a busted tooth, strung out.’ I’m like, ‘Nice, like I didn’t see that too,’” she recalled.

Nevertheless, regardless of all that occurred, Honey Boo Boo pushed by. With the assistance of her sister, Lauryn, she targeted on college and graduated in 2023.