Mama June is OK with daughter Lauryn “Pumpkin” Shannon being on OnlyFans but just “hopes her daughter made more than $10K from the explicit content,” the reality TV matriarch told TMZ.
While giving Pumpkin her blessing, June did have a few concerns. “She says there’s a digital footprint to consider … pointing out Pumpkin’s kids may not know what OnlyFans is right now, but could eventually come across their mom’s content when they’re older.,” TMZ reported.
“That said, June says there’s no issue between her and Pumpkin over the decision. Pumpkin is 26 years old, she says, and what she chooses to do is ultimately up to her.”
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The 26-year-old mom of four joined the subscription-based platform back in March, inspired, she told TMZ, “after watching friends rake in serious money on the platform.” Within two weeks, Pumpkin reported she’d already made nearly six figures posting sexy photos of herself.
That payday has only grown as Pumpkin’s adults-only endeavor has grown to include collabs with other OnlyFans creators and even sexy-time videos with her boyfriend Darrin Kitchens (who’s also her ex-husband Josh Efird’s cousin). Subscribers who pay $9.99 a month to access Pumpkin’s channel are paying $100-150 more for couple’s video content.
Of her decision to add the steamier content to her OnlyFans, Pumpkin told TMZ, “I really started doing hardcore because, truthfully, it’s another revenue of money and so many options to do and give.”
Pumpkin is also making money with club appearances, including shows next weekend in South Carolina and West Virginia. In a Reel posted to her Instagram account following an appearance at a club in Tennessee, Pumpkin revealed how much money she can make from this sideline and what’s involved.
“They give me a set fee from the jump, I’m not going to go over that because everyone’s is different, but do know that it’s in the thousands of dollars range, OK,” she said. “Mind you they require me to do at least one set at their club, that can be for as many minutes as I want, I can get as undressed as I want, that is completely up to me, sometimes I take my top off, I never take my bottoms off, so I guess if you want to call me a stripper I am that, but I did tell my mom from a young age I would be one.”
For the appearance she referred to into the Reel, in addition to her appearance fee, Pumpkin shared she also made nearly $700 in tips.
In an interview on the 2 Goons podcast last month, Pumpkin confirmed that being an adult-content creator was more lucrative than appearing on reality TV. “I have made more in the last less than a month on OnlyFans than I do in a season of the show,” she said.
If June, Pumpkin and their family return for a ninth season of Mama June: Family Crisis, expect to learn more about this growing adult-content empire.
“I’m not being ugly, our show follows our family drama, I would be very surprised if we do get another season if they don’t cover that,” Pumpkin said on the 2 Goons podcast. I don’t think they’ll cover the adult content part of it, but I definitely think they’ll cover it to a PG level.”
While Pumpkin is the first member of her family to launch an OnlyFans account, she’s not the first one to think about it. According to TMZ, “June tells us she considered joining OnlyFans herself back in 2020, when she viewed the site as more PG and saw it as a way for celebrities to connect with fans. She ultimately decided against it … saying the explicit route isn’t something she’d personally take, especially with kids in school.”
Check out Pumpkin’s full 2 Goons interview below to learn more about her OnlyFans career and what life was like for her family before reality TV.
(Photos: Instagram)
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The faces in the headline are disturbing. lol
Nailed it!
We’ve been watching the fallout from June’s parenting choices play out since 2012 and Toddlers and Tiaras. It mirrors what we’ve seen in other reality families like Teen Mom, especially with kids like Jace. So when June says that Pumpkin is twenty‑six and can make her own decisions, it rings hollow.
Pumpkin is making choices shaped by a childhood where her mother consistently prioritized herself over her children. The long-term impact of that kind of instability doesn’t disappear just because someone reaches adulthood.
Just when you thought, this fkd up family couldn’t sink any lower.
And wtf would pay to see these two grotesque people mate like elephants
Bring back shame.
“Hell is empty, and all the devils are here.”
-William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act 1 Scn 2
Why are people wasting money to see ugly people naked? And Darrin looks like he works at a gas station and smells like cheese and chew. $150? I’m pretty sure you could give those two chuds 20 bucks and they’d do it in front of you in a parking lot. Just literal animals. Yuck.
people have nasty fetishes
Her poor children. Kids can be so mean to each other the fact she puts her business on the internet for everyone to see is disgusting. It’s going to be the topic of playgrounds and other kids living rooms and her kids are the ones who will suffer. But she doesn’t care about them great mother of the year potential 😆. If you want to do it that that’s your choice but you are so public and continue to exploit your innocent children on TV your disgusting self centered and should not have custody.
The people who buy and watch this stuff walk among us, scary
What planet is this?!
#PressEscToGoBack
This family is such a mess that my first reaction was “I’m surprised ‘#Pumpkin’ hadn’t already been taken”.
Dear God how much do you want to bet June changes her mind and Skeletor Justin and Mama June will be bumping ugliest for the only fans masses.🤦🏼♀️
Thank you, The Ashley. It’s bad enough that my dreams turned into nightmares the second you mentioned David Eason being on Only Fans, but now that I know that Darrin is on there too I am just waiting for the full fledged night terrors to begin. *sigh* 😉
Yikes.
Hope the club thing works out. Its an entirely different ballgame being up on a stage with all eyes and a huge spotlight on you, folks expecting you to move fairly well to music all while scrutinizing your body– versus filming, where you don’t see your audience.
Famous porn stars have said “yeah I don’t dance, so club appearances are a no”
There is actually a video online of her at a club appearance on a stripper pole. Thankfully with her clothes still on.
I can’t believe that any NORMAL person would pay good money to see a fat-ass like “Pumpkin” or “Jenelle” naked, doing porn!!! In person or in a club! They are just so gross!! If Pumpkin says she’s always known that she wanted to be a stripper, (a whore) then why the hell did she have kids!! Parents like the Teen Moms are so selfish, immature, and disgusting, they never think OR care what their kids have to go through by having these fucked up people for parents.
Not to mention that strippers have to be thin and, while I’m not trying to body shame, Pumpkin is not. Even in the backwoods strip clubs in Georgia I am guessing that even they maintain this standard.
Not necessarily- people like all body types
I think the caveat of her not undressing is .. rich.
As if nudity is the issue here.
She’s going to have to do a lot more that hug a pole in a sweatshirt and trying to talk over the music if she wants to make a living off appearances.
“I really started doing hardcore because, truthfully, it’s another revenue of money and so many options to do and give.” After reading that I don’t think it’s too far of a reach to assume that she’s beyond the point of wearing a sweatshirt while she’s working the stripper pole. For the love of god I hope that I’m wrong, but I doubt I am and that’s just something you can’t unsee once you have had the misfortune of witnessing it.
I was an exotic dancer for over ten years and I did feature dancing. I just saw one of her videos on tmz she was horrible on stage.