TLC star Honey Boo Boo unrecognisable as she cosies up to much older boyfriend [See in the article]
Honey Boo Boo looked totally unrecognisable as she returned home from college with her older boyfriend Dralin Carswell this week.
The 18-year-old TLC reality star was spotted looking slightly groggy as she made her way through the airport in Atlanta, Georgia, in a yellow Barbie t-shirt, holding 22-year-old Dralin’s hand.
Honey – real name Alana Thompson – is studying nursing in Denver, Colorado, and living off-campus “for security reasons”.
She has been dating Dralin since she was 15 and he was 19.
She donned a pale yellow t-shirt emblazoned with the pink Barbie logo and a pair of tight black leggings, slinging a black and white duffel bag over one shoulder and letting her blonde hair fall in loose curls down her shoulders.
Honey Boo Boo has grown up a lot since her TLC days (Image: Getty Images for Extra)A pair of lace-up white trainers finished off her casual ensemble.Dralin, meanwhile, opted for a tie-dye hoodie and black cargo pants, with matching blue and purple sneakers and a black beanie hat.
Mama June has previously spoken out on her Toddlers and Tiaras star daughter’s age-gap romance, telling Daily Mail: “He is older than her but honestly for me, Dralin has a very young mentality. He has a very teenage mentality, if that makes sense.”
She added: “When people say some boys mature at a later age than women do… he is one of those boys to me.
“A lot of people still look at Alana as that five-year-old little girl that you all grew up with.”
June said Honey Boo Boo gets “a lot of backlash” for wearing false eyelashes and fake nails – but fumed that the criticism is hypocritical as she did the exact same thing for pageants as a small child.
“Now that she’s old enough to do all that, why do you have a problem now when y’all didn’t have a problem back then?” her mother wondered.
