Mama June has revealed she’s dropped 30lbs in just two months after taking weight loss medication.
The reality star, 44, who recently defended spending $30k of daughter Honey Boo Boo’s money, said she had drastically dropped weight after taking tirzepatide – after gaining 130lbs following her 2016 gastric sleeve surgery.
Speaking to Page Six alongside daughters Alana, Jessica ‘Chubbs’ Shannon and Lauryn ‘Pumpkin’ Efird, she said: ‘I was against it because I had a gastric sleeve.
‘But now, I’m in week nine and you can ask the girls — I am so super strict.’
She said sticking to a protein-rich diet and going to the gym ‘three or four times a week’ enabled her to drop weight fast, saying: ‘I probably lost 30 pounds in like eight and a half weeks.’
Mama June has revealed she’s dropped 30lbs in just two months after taking weight loss medication
The reality star, 44, seen left in 2023 and right in 2013 , said she had drastically dropped weight after taking tirzepatide – after gaining 130lbs following her 2016 gastric sleeve surgery.
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Lauryn said she was concerned about her mother taking the weight loss drugs, saying: ‘I just feel like every other time mom has lost weight so quickly, she’s gained it back, plus more each time. You know?
‘She didn’t eat right, she didn’t go to the gym. She just was like, ‘f— it, I’ll get another surgery.’”
Mama June had previously revealed she turned to weight loss drug injections after gaining more than 100lbs – in part due to the stress of caring for daughter Anna ‘Chickadee’ Cardwell who died from cancer this year.
The reality star had successfully shed 355 pounds after undergoing gastric sleeve surgery nine years ago.
In her video, Mama June said: ‘As you know, back in May 2015, I had gastric sleeve surgery. I used to weigh 550 pounds so on my own, I went from 550 lbs. to 311 the day that I had my surgery. And in six weeks, I went from 311 all the way down to 195.
‘And at that time, I had my skin removal on my arms, I had my chin lipoed, I had liposuction on my back, I had a tummy tuck and had a breast augmentation. Well since then, I kinda kept off the weight. I stayed at like 130, 140, 150 and to me I looked super skinny and just wasn’t used to that.
‘I have noticed over the last year and a half that I’ve really put on weight,’ she explained.
The reality star had successfully shed 355 pounds after undergoing gastric sleeve surgery nine years ago – pictured 2018
The star is seen in 2018 with daughter Honey Boo Boo
June said the stress of caring for daughter Anna – combined with poor eating habits – led to her latest weight gain.
‘I guess the stress of everything going on, eating out, not eating right, just all kinds of stuff, I’ve packed on like about a 120, 130 pounds.’
June attempted to undergo weight loss surgery over a year ago but those efforts ended up being unsuccessful after she learned the procedure wouldn’t have made a real difference.
In her video, Mama June said: ‘As you know, back in May 2015, I had gastric sleeve surgery. I used to weigh 550 pounds so on my own, I went from 550 lbs. to 311 the day that I had my surgery. And in six weeks, I went from 311 all the way down to 195.
‘And at that time, I had my skin removal on my arms, I had my chin lipoed, I had liposuction on my back, I had a tummy tuck and had a breast augmentation. Well since then, I kinda kept off the weight. I stayed at like 130, 140, 150 and to me I looked super skinny and just wasn’t used to that.
‘I have noticed over the last year and a half that I’ve really put on weight,’ she explained.
The star has been keeping fans updated with her weight loss journey
June said the stress of caring for daughter Anna – combined with poor eating habits – led to her latest weight gain.
‘I guess the stress of everything going on, eating out, not eating right, just all kinds of stuff, I’ve packed on like about a 120, 130 pounds.’
June attempted to undergo weight loss surgery over a year ago but those efforts ended up being unsuccessful after she learned the procedure wouldn’t have made a real difference.
It comes after June told DailyMail.com she wasn’t interested in trying weight loss injections such as Ozempic.
Speaking to DailyMail.com last year about whether she would like to shed pounds again with the popular ‘quick-fix’ taking Hollywood by storm, Mama June stated: ‘I don’t want to try Ozempic because, honestly, I’ve heard about so many bad side effects.
‘It is using a drug that isn’t really prescribed to do that. They’re using a diabetic drug to take care of weight loss.’
The drugs, which has been used by the likes of Elon Musk, Chelsea Handler and Remi Bader, are approved to manage type II diabetes but prescribed off-label for obesity.