From pageant princess to pole dancer. Lauryn “Pumpkin” Shannon, the Mama June star who once competed in beauty pageants as a kid, is now taking her OnlyFans empire straight to the stage—and the money? It’s literally flying.
Pumpkin was spotted Saturday night at Diamonds & Lace in Chattanooga, Tennessee, dancing on stage, moving around the pole, and using a money gun to shoot dollar bills into the crowd. Fans in the front of the stage showered her with cash as she performed. This isn’t some one-off; Pumpkin has expanded her career by creating explicit OnlyFans content and dancing at strip clubs following her 2024 divorce from Josh Efird.
The “Here Comes Honey Boo Boo” star launched her OnlyFans account in March 2026, teasing fans with a cover pic of her stretched out in a red lace bodysuit. Pumpkin charges $23 a month and said she felt it was her time after watching friends make “pretty good money.” Her boyfriend, Darrin Kitchens, has been incredibly supportive of her new career move. The two have been together since 2024.
But here’s the real cultural moment: Mama June herself is caught in a generational crossroads about it. Mama June isn’t judging daughter Pumpkin for diving into hardcore sex on OnlyFans, but she tells TMZ she hopes Pumpkin is seeing a serious payday out of it, because “all money ain’t good money.” June said she hopes her daughter made more than $10K from the explicit content, and that she’s concerned about Pumpkin’s four kids eventually coming across their mom’s content when they’re older. This is the same Mama June who once dominated TLC with a pageant-focused reality show; now she’s watching her adult daughter monetize her body full-time.
Pumpkin and Josh were married for six years and share four children: Ella Grace, Bentley, Jameson, and twins Sylus and Stella. Their divorce was finalized in September 2024, and they agreed on 50/50 custody. The pivot from co-parenting a stable household to strip club performances and explicit subscription content happened fast. But for Pumpkin, at 26 years old, what she chooses to do is ultimately up to her.
The larger story here is the speed of reinvention in the creator economy. Pumpkin went from the family narrative of TLC—pageants, pageant moms, reality dysfunction—to OnlyFans mogul in one year. A Fanboy Expo in Knoxville, Tennessee, canceled her booth because the event has been family-friendly since 2012 and prohibits vendors from selling adult industry products, after a local gentleman’s club promoted her appearance on social media. That’s the real tension: she’s not just a creator anymore; she’s a brand that forces institutions to take sides.
The 16BARS take: Pumpkin went from Here Comes Honey Boo Boo to Here Comes Stripper Boo in less than a year, and while Mama June is grudgingly supportive, the real question is whether the cash Pumpkin’s making now is worth the permanent digital footprint she’s creating for her four kids to inherit. That’s the generational conflict nobody’s naming out loud.
