It’s a big weekend for reality TV stars offering revelations. Hot on the heels of last night’s episode of 20/20 in which Keeping Up With The Kardashian‘s Bruce Jenner confirmed speculation that he is transgender, two much more unexpected coming outs have happened. During an interview with syndicated entertainment news program Inside Edition, Here Comes Honey Boo Boo‘s Lauryn Thompson, AKA Pumpkin, sporting a fuschia fauxhawk, says “I’m attracted to females, and I’m attracted to males. You cannot hide who you truly are.”
It initially appeared that Mama June Shannon was there to support her daughter’s coming out, but Pumpkin also informed viewers that her mother is also bisexual, although she used different terminology, declaring “She is gay, too! June is gay, too!”
Mama June, who separated from Honey Boo Boo’s father last year, clarified that she is bisexual.
Pumpkin used the opportunity to try to make amends with a former girlfriend. Asked about how their neighbors in rural Georgia might react, she states, “haters are gonna hate.”
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In a separate interview with TMZ, Mama June said she had exactly three experiences with women in her life but says, “It’s no big deal, I was young and experimented with it, never went pro though just played the minor leagues.”
Honey Boo Boo, which chronicled a very unusual family obsessed with children’s beauty pageants, “mudding,” and hoarding toilet paper, was canceled by TLC last October following reports that Mama June was dating a man accused of dating a convicted child molester.
As a Queerty reader pointed out in the comments, regardless of what one thinks of this family and their television exploits, it’s still rather remarkable that they’re comfortable making such an announcement.
Watch the big Inside Edition reveal below.
H/t: HuffPo
Jim Platt
I can see them having to buy it…
bottom250
ewwwwwwww honey
Jamey Johnston
Jennifer Boroff
Jose Ruiz
Not surprised if they’re already scissoring get each other
Captain Obvious
Just gonna roll my eyes and move on.
Michael Davy
Does anyone really care?
Allie Pocket
the thirst is real
Joseph Klein
Yawn
Donovan Mann
Give it a rest!!!
Chris L. Reynolds
I’ll pass!
Michael Finnegan
These are the LGBT ‘s that WOULD have a pizza shop cater a wedding.
Jeff Eiselman
Ugh. TMI.
Howard Steiman
Who cares. Publicity whores. They both need to seek help, not for being bisexual, but for just plain stupidity.
Damon Robbins
Who cares blah blah blah !
Clark35
Are they really bisexual, or are they just claiming this for attention? No matter what their orientation is who would want them?
David Lange
Ahem,,,,,,,
“AAAAUGGGHH”
thank you.
Jim Thronberry
some people will do and say anything to stay in the media spotlight to make money
Deon Letsoalo
You better redneckognize.
cflekken
No matter what any of you may think of this family, let’s embrace the fact that they feel comfortable making this type of declaration.
Jim McDonnell
They are going to have something better than this, how about we’re both gainfully employed?
Mark Ilvonen
TMI
Demitrius Wolfe
Yeah no thanks, im on a fat free diet.
Sidney Davies
Why is this news? She let a child molester near her children.
Javier Aponte
Omg whatttttttttttt??????? Lol
Roger Honeycutt
Gag. Who care what that trash does
Giancarlo85
Eww no. This would be like Ted Nugent coming out. I will pass on any further comment.
James Kelley
Doesn’t surprise me that theyre bisexual, when you look that like that you got to take whatever you can get, I’m just saying…
Roger Honeycutt
Spoiled pork
Oli1023
“It’s no big deal, I was young and experimented with it, never went pro though just played the minor leagues.”
EXCUSE ME?????
James Kelley
Pork me pork me
James Kelley
Fat bisexual lesbians have pussys too has always been my motto, hey man praise the lard…
Darryl Cummings
Creepy.
AJ Sarabia
Who are they?
Jim Fortier
Who cares
OhHellNo
I think June is less “bisexual” and more “anyone who’ll have me”. As for Pumpkin coming out, Oprah also came out as black today.
Tony Lee Churchill
Wgaf?!
Irish Ryan
Gagging
I am Gay (just like you), Black, HIV-Positive, and Back Bitches!!!
That picture looks like what Giancarlo, and Saint Law would look like if they were sitting right next to each other! Ha ha ha! Ofcourse that’s a joke, because those 2 cu*ts are the same person!
Reginald Augustus Salazar Magpayo
Will wonders never cease! Just goes to show you can never judge and know people through their outward appearance.
Ra Hill
OMFG… scare all the good lesbian women. .. poor excuse for a mother!
OllieCat
The amount of misogyny/biphobia going on in the comment section here is disgusting but I expect nothing less.
Clark Wilson
Guy Hamel
Scott H Womack
Generally I am happy and supportive of Bi’s, Trans, Gays, Lesbians coming out. However anything Honey Boo Boo is a trailer trash attention whore machine. Sick and tired of seeing her / hearing about her.
jason smeds
This just seems like a cry for attention by a couple of females. I’m not saying that women can’t be bisexual but it’s a known fact that women will fake their bisexuality if there’s a buck in it. Bisexuality in women – even it’s completely fake – is often rewarded by men.
If you want to see how fake women can be when it comes to bisexuality, just remember the kiss between Britney and Madonna at the MTV awards some years back. They did it for attention, nothing more.
jason smeds
Also, keep in mind that fake bisexual women can be very anti-male homosexuality. They see male homosexuality – especially if it exists in men who are also attracted to women – as “interfering” with their ability to make money from men.
Recall the female “lesbian/bisexual” member of Russian pop group tATu who reportedly said last year that female bisexuality was “acceptable” but that male bisexuality was “wrong”….or words to that effect. Her name is Yulia Volkova – let’s not forget it:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/09/19/tatu-singer-gay-son-yulia-volkova_n_5850098.html
Michael Johnson
Everybody should come out as bisexual
Pat Smith
They are getting old give the little girl a break she doesn’t need to make you more money she is damaged for life
Reno Reeves
pig fat necked pigs
Anthony Bryan Hilton
They just wanna be back on tv.
Erik Anderson
That should read “Come Out As Desperate for Attention.”
Jim Long
Really?
Giancarlo85
@jason smeds: Now now… I don’t like these two, but your rants about women show how pathetic you are. You view women as a threat to your very existence. Never mind as to where you came from.
@I am Gay (just like you), Black, HIV-Positive, and Back Bitches!!!: Stop trying to troll me. Take your slutty petridish of an ass somewhere else.
Gina Williams
FUCKING YUCK!
Ronnie Richmond
Yuck. I don’t care.
Anna Campbell
ya think!!
Teodor Ciprian
Hump a cow.
Kevin J Desmond
Ok so besides being pathetic fat cows now they’re part time carpet munchers Both are nothing but worthless trailor trash … send them both out into the pasture and let the graze …. moooo
Audrey Rodriquez
You could show a movie on Mama June’s chins…good GOD!!
stranded
I miss the show, i really do. Their redneckness was endearing. I mean i couldn’t believe Mama June left Sugarbear for a child molester. I can understand TLC pulling the show. Whatever money they made from this, hopefully they’ve saved it to live comfortably.
Valerie Wood
Oh you think! Everyone knew this already…in their case it’s for the best…no sane man would have either one!
Ryan Traughber
Eeww
Neil Ballantyne
so she is a sick and twisted bitch. who shacked up with a child preditor and well now she is bi or a lesbian or whatever……. put the manatee back in the water. How is it these people become famous is beyond me
Craig Marker
Hit the gym!
Michael Diggin
Kayla Boone
James Nelson
Wonder which will be better, the South Park special or the Saturday Night Live Sketch on this…
Andddd go!
Sam Raether
..not positive representation but representation nevertheless. Presuming it’s true, anyways.
Philip Green
:/
Clark35
@OllieCat: I don’t like biphobia or bisexual erasure as I’m bisexual; but keep in mind these people were on a reality TV show and the mom actually let a guy she knew was a ped0 around her kids!
Julie Bunn
with each other?
Clark35
@stranded: You just know all the cash they received from being on a reality TV show has been wasted, and I wouldn’t be surprised if the mother stole the cash that belongs to her children.
Dylan Propst
The comment section of this is honestly so disgusting. I’m glad they had the courage to come out.
Paul Tidd
Sounds like a publicity stunt to me.
Felice McNabb
And we care because of what??????
Christopher St. Christopher
Remind me not to step into a Queerty comments section again…
Sluggo2007
The things people will say and do to stay in the spotlight when their show is cancelled. Amazing.
Babak Bijarchi
NO!
IvanPH
As a frequent viewer of the show, it’s not surprising that Pumpkin likes women. She was very butch and tomboyish on the show. Anyway, I’m glad for her. I’ll take Honey Boo Boo and her family over the Kardashians and that bigoted Duck Dynasty family anytime.
Mary K Owens
Reality tv show is brewing…folks doing anything for a show or to be on a show….#smh
Damian Clark
Struggling to imagine that face in ANY Vagina…… ð??«
Jeffrey Sperber
What a nice bond to share with your mother.
Robert Casey
They couldn’t even fit in a closet.
Mike Jasinski
Bruce Jenner still winning.
Jim Dercole
Given what little information I do know it’s only fair to ask. Are they coming out as bisexual with each other?? LOL
Eugene Schnitger
I would have been more amazed if they had come out as “Human”
Susan Howard Bijarchi
Who cares!
A?e Aronovich
Matt Goodman Adam Jacob MacRae just wanted to make sure this comes up your feed. Enjoy â¤ï¸
dinard38
Excuse me while I go puke!!!!
Joe Payer
I dont know anyone who is desperate enough to eat her cooter
Ron King
If Ms.Bruce Jenner is TG then Mama June can be bi….
Sherri L. Stewart
they just need to shut up and go away.
Debra Todd
Its a bullshit lie. Anything for attention. Now please… make this woman go away
Robin Logan Graber
Andrea Valerie
Brian Akey
She’s still a repugnant human being. Her sexuality doesn’t make a lick of difference.
Caesar Adkerson
I never knew who these people were and still don’t want to know. White trash should stay quietly in their trailers eating Velveta, not be on television Bruce Jenner.
Jeff Drew
Karla Bear just fyi
Joe Edwards
Reality TV stars- I lost all interest in the story.
Alexander Crouton-Skitch
Oh, great. Now everyone can be nauseous.
Michael Stracener
Les..see..how kin usns milk more moolah from da tee bee peeoples. …I know…we kin be qar.
Christian Wells
I guess when you look like that you need to keep your options open…..
Karla Bear
Thank you Jeff,I adore Honey boo boo!!
Danny Adams II
Too much information
Chris Douglas
Chris Hall
I am Gay (just like you), Black, HIV-Positive, and Back Bitches!!!
@Giancarlo85: It’s always too hot in the kitchen for your two-faced ass isn’t it?
Don’t start none, and there won’t be none critter! I wouldn’t need to “try to troll you” you fag-troll bitch, because everywhere I go you’re already making your inane comments hoping to finally get MY goddamn attention!
Funny that your fag ass chose not to acknowledge those comments this time! So don’t get scared now fag! And don’t bother responding neither you insane fag… just go fuck yourself, because if you don’t like it now tough bitch!
Maybe you should a resolution to make better decisions in the future, in your own fucking sad, horrid life then bitch!
Eloweez Rainbowz
They both look like pumpkins to me… Nobody cares
Crystal Lau
The lgbt denies them access
Tammy Black
Gross
Saint Law
@I am Gay (just like you), Black, HIV-Positive, and Back Bitches!!!: Oh lol. Absolute lol!
I either skim read or ignore your posts but in every one I’ve seen lately you’ve mentioned my id.
It’s great I upset you so much, you squeaky caucasian crack-pot. Now go back to wanking over that cute goat you saw at the petting zoo.
Saint Law
Jason Smeds will now ventriloquise twelveteen paragraphs through his “I’m Gay (but unlike you) I’m in Black-Face, HIV Positive and Insane, Bitches!!!” about how upset he isn’t.
James Decino
Is “weigh in” the proper choice of words as part of the headline above “Miss Fat America’s so flattering photo..Can you sense the caring in my comment? Yeah right!!! Give me a God Damn break.
Louis
Im happy for them and yes I still don’t respect what June did in regards to that pedophile being near her children.
However these comments fat shaming are absolutely pathetic.
What is wrong with some of you to not realize that that is still a form of bullying and discrimination?
Yes June definitely did wrong but that was about foolishness not her weight.
People lose weight for themselves also not anyone else .
I do hope they lose weight but not because I think they are bad for being over weight but because I genuinely care about their survival as human beings.
Id sure like to know how exactly it makes sense to bully them for their weight yet we get all up in arms when someone bullies or discriminates against us for being gay lesbian bisexual or transgender.
The hypocrisy alone is astounding not to mention not everyone in the LGBT community is skinny we don’t all look the same and that’s not a bad thing either.
Matya Shwartz
Ido Rosenblit
I am Gay (just like you), Black, HIV-Positive, and Back Bitches!!!
@Saint Law: So, now I’m both black, and white? Can’t make up your mind now can you whore? Why don’t you just go back to “Heil Hitler” you Nazi-faggot, and just using the term “nig*er” verbatum like you used to!
You’re the one using my name everytime you see me fag, so don’t even get mad with your clumsy attempts at “spin-doctoring” the story back around in your favor! You only show up to bash everyone, so just accept that your popularity along with your credibility is now in the trashcan you fucking crackhead faggot! Mad, because I called you a bully, and then appropriately stood up to you? Yeah, and this is also the part where you typically get really angry, and lose your cool too!
And you can tell your alter-ego Giancarlo to stop acting that cu*t is so high and mighty with her fake bitch retreads! Like these two fat cu*ts here aren’t exactly the real-life recreation of you two car wrecks! I see you made sure that you didn’t post while Giancarlo was drinking a glass of water you lame-bitch ventriloquist’s dummy! Ha ha ha!
tricky ricky
given she lost her show because she was dating the pedophile who molested her daughter of course it was easy for june to make this “announcement”.
tricky ricky
@Kevin J Desmond: trailer trash. and don’t be insulting good honest hard working trailer trash with comparing them to the likes of theses
tricky ricky
@Michael Johnson: the mere thought of cooze makes me nauseous.
tricky ricky
@Giancarlo85: the comments made by Jason are spot on target.
Lobo2015
Sorry Mama June the tv show was cancelled…