On this episode of 2 Goons, Che Durena and JJ Liberman sit down with Pumpkin (@pumpkin)
She grew up in a trailer park eating ketchup sandwiches, became a reality TV star overnight, and then had to take custody of her little sister while her mom was spending half a million dollars a year on crack. This one hits different. 👀
🍞 Growing up dirt poor before Honey Boo Boo
→ Trailer parks, ketchup sandwiches, and no idea that everything was about to change overnight
📺 How Toddlers in Tiaras turned into their own show
→ Her mom put her sister in beauty pageants, they ended up on Toddlers in Tiaras, and the network loved them so much they got their own show immediately
💥 Why the network loved them from day one
→ No filter, completely open, high energy — her mom was overweight and didn't care at all and that's exactly what made America fall in love with them
💊 Her mom blew over $500,000 on crack in a single year
→ She was so open about her drug use she would tell her own kids exactly what she was taking — and then the police found cocaine absolutely everywhere in her car in Alabama
👮 The Alabama arrest
→ The police officer said it looked like a coke bomb went off in the car — they still don't know the full story of what happened that night
😔 Her mom was sober for 10 years before the show
→ The fame and the money brought her back to drugs and Pumpkin had to watch it happen in real time
👶 Taking custody of her little sister while all of this was happening
→ Her mom was deep in her addiction and Pumpkin stepped up and took over — she was still a teenager
🤫 The network had zero pushback on her starting OnlyFans
→ She found out a micro internet celebrity friend was making 50k a month and immediately knew she could do more
🎥 The film crew has been with them for 10 years and are basically family
→ When you've been through everything they've been through together it stops being a job
❤️ Why she would never take any of it back
→ Fans reach out constantly saying her family's chaos made them feel normal — and that means everything to her
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