{"id":171520,"date":"2025-05-30T19:58:49","date_gmt":"2025-05-30T19:58:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/30\/mama-june-shares-weight-loss-update-amid-health-issues\/"},"modified":"2025-05-30T19:58:49","modified_gmt":"2025-05-30T19:58:49","slug":"mama-june-shares-weight-loss-update-amid-health-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/30\/mama-june-shares-weight-loss-update-amid-health-issues\/","title":{"rendered":"Mama June Shares Weight Loss Update Amid Health Issues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrities\/june-shannon\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Mama June Shannon<\/strong><\/a> is down 300 pounds \u2014 and she\u2019s kept it off despite giving up weight loss medication.<\/p>\n<p>Mama June, 45, tells <em>Us Weekly<\/em> exclusively that she\u2019s been off the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-news\/news\/mama-june-shannon-plans-to-start-weight-loss-injections\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">injections<\/a> since December but has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-body\/pictures\/celebs-shocking-weight-loss-2014304\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">maintained her weight<\/a> between 194 and 197 pounds in the months since.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNot judging anyone who\u2019s on the weight loss shot because if you are then it\u2019s fine, but I don\u2019t take the weight loss shot anymore due to the fact that it is a stepping stone, but it\u2019s not a fix-all, be-all,\u201d she says while promoting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/entertainment\/news\/mama-june-family-crisis-season-7-trailer-released-what-to-expect\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">season 7 of <em>Mama June: Family Crisis<\/em><\/a>. \u201cYou have to make it a lifestyle change. So I made the lifestyle changes, and I know I can move forward with the lifestyle changes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mama June has been open about her weight loss journey, previously chronicling her extensive surgeries, including a gastric sleeve in 2015. Years after her operation, she gained back approximately 100 pounds and turned to semaglutide injections when her effort to shed the extra weight stalled.<\/p>\n<div class=\"link-related article link-related__with-thumb\">\n\t\t\t<a class=\"article__thumbnail related-ab-test\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/entertainment\/pictures\/here-comes-honey-boo-boo-stars-where-are-they-now\/\" target=\"\" data-source=\"01\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/p>\n<figure class=\"article__figure\">\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:56.25%;\" class=\"ratio-based-placeholder\"><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"article__content\">\n<h3 class=\"article__title\">\n\t\t\t<a class=\"article__title-link related-ab-test\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/entertainment\/pictures\/here-comes-honey-boo-boo-stars-where-are-they-now\/\" target=\"\" data-source=\"01\" rel=\"noopener\"><br \/>\n    <span class=\"related-badge\">Related: <\/span><span class=\"related-title\">\u2018Here Comes Honey Boo Boo\u2019 Stars: Where Are They Now?<\/span><\/a><br \/>\n\t\t<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\n\t\t\tFar from reality? Alana \u201cHoney Boo Boo\u201d Thompson and her family knew how to stir up controversy on their former show, Here Comes Honey Boo Boo. The reality series aired on TLC from 2012 to 2014. The family initially became famous after Thompson appeared as a beauty pageant contestant on Toddlers &amp; Tiaras before landing [\u2026]\t\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>She tells <em>Us<\/em> that she\u2019s living proof that those who stop using \u201cthe shot\u201d will not automatically gain the weight back.<\/p>\n<p>It turns out her decision to get off semaglutide came by accident. Mama June realized she could stay healthy without the meds when she embarked on a 10-day road trip without them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI left my medication at home and realized in 10 days I could do without it,\u201d she says. \u201cI didn\u2019t get back on it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That doesn\u2019t mean Mama June has put her health concerns behind her. She underwent a \u201csurprise\u201d hysterectomy earlier this year and shares that she has other health problems that she\u2019s not ready to disclose.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m still dealing with health issues now,\u201d she says. \u201cWe\u2019re not releasing [it] to the public until we get all the answers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Thankfully, she has her daughter <strong>Alana Thompson<\/strong>, a.k.a. Honey Boo Boo, by her side. Now 19, Alana is studying to become a nurse.<\/p>\n<div id=\"news-block\">\n<div class=\"newsletter-form  \">\n<div class=\"newsletter-signup__success\" aria-live=\"polite\">\n<h3>Thank You!<\/h3>\n<p>You have successfully subscribed.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p>\u201cShe\u2019s been dumbing it down for us,\u201d Mama June says. \u201cShe\u2019s like, \u2018No Mama, this is what you really have; this is what\u2019s really going on.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She then said to her daughter, \u201cWhen we go to this other doctor when we get back, I need you to dumb it down some more.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Mama June: Family Crisis<\/em> premieres Friday, May 30, at 8 p.m. ET via WeTV, ALLBLK and AMC+.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-body\/news\/mama-june-shares-weight-loss-update-amid-health-issues\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mama June Shannon is down 300 pounds \u2014 and she\u2019s kept it off despite giving up weight loss medication. Mama June, 45, tells Us Weekly exclusively that she\u2019s been off the injections since December but has maintained her weight between 194 and 197 pounds in the months since. \u201cNot judging anyone who\u2019s on the weight [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":171521,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-171520","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrity"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171520\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/171521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}