Lauryn Shannon Efird, who is more famously known as Pumpkin has always
been the chubby girl under the shadow of her more popular and charismatic younger sister
Alana ‘Honey Boo Boo’. But thanks to her recent transformation,
people are taking notice of her and she is seriously turning heads everywhere she goes.
This Is Her Stunning Transformation: The 21-year-old TV star,
who married longtime love Joshua Efird in 2018, shared a photo with her 637k Instagram followers
on February 13 as a sweet tribute to her partner writing, ‘My lifelong valentine’.
But it was Pumpkin’s drastic weight loss that caught everyone’s attention.
Some fans were naturally curious and asked if she underwent surgery.
She kindly replied to one such user saying, “No surgery here ma’am. This is all my own.”
Pumpkin, just like the rest of her family members, has struggled with weight issues over the years.
She told In Touch Weekly that ‘letting go’ of her mother’s drama and focusing on her own needs is
what led to her incredible transformation. She confessed to losing weight through a combination
of increased activity and smarter eating. Further revealing her weight loss secrets,
she said, “I had gained a lot of weight. I was on a different type of birth control and with
everything going on with my mama I was stress eating.” She continued, “I noticed that after I,
kind of, let that stuff go in my life and kind of started working on myself. I noticed that
I didn’t need to eat as much. I just drink really water, honestly, And I stay active.”
She often flaunts her weight loss transformation via Instagram, and also shares her diet and
exercise journey with her fans. Her transformation also inspired her younger sister to lose weight as
well. Honey Boo Boo now drinks water in her Hydro Flask instead of reaching out for sugary drinks.
Pumpkin makes more nutritious and healthy meals at home too. “It may not be the greatest food.
But it’s a healthier choice than me cooking fried chicken and fries,” she said. The sisters
have also upped their fitness regime by going for long walks at the park and flea markets.
Fans might recall that Pumpkin and her husband were granted custody of her teenage sister
after Mama June was arrested, alongside her boyfriend Geno Doak on drug possession charges,
including possession of a controlled substance and drug paraphernalia. The incident caused a
fallout between June and her daughters and they remained estranged for a year. Their tense reunion
was documented in an episode of Mama June’s reality show Mama June: Road to Redemption.
The mother-daughter duo had an emotional confrontation,
and Pumpkin talked about the hardships she and Alana had to face
because of her mother’s absence and drug habits, and how it has emotionally scarred both of them.
These days, it seems Pumpkin is having the best time of her life,
first reuniting with her mother, and then announcing her second pregnancy to the world.
On April 10, 2021, the mom of 1 posted a small gallery of photos sharing her happiness. “Well,
the secret is out for everyone to know now! Baby Efird # 2 coming 2021,” she wrote.
“After almost 3 years we are finally having another blessing and couldn’t be happier.” Sharing
her pregnancy news, she continued, “We weren’t really expecting. We also weren’t trying either,
but we weren’t preventing. She later added, “Everybody knows Ella’s 3 now,
so it’s taken me that long to get pregnant. Because for a while, I was on birth control
and then I got off of birth control for a year and a half. And then I found out that I was pregnant.”
Pumpkin also confessed that although her time on television was good while it lasted,
and she enjoyed the income it brought, she was over it and hoped to do something more impactful.
She said, “Honestly, I want to go ahead and say goodbye if I’m being completely honest. Only
because Alana grew up doing this and you don’t really have a normal life during production.”
We wish the reality star good luck for her new journey!