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Lauryn “Pumpkin” Shannon and Darrin Kitchens.
Lauryn Efird/FacebookMama June Shannon‘s daughter Lauryn “Pumpkin” Shannon has a new man in her life after settling her divorce Josh Efird.
Lauryn, 24, debuted her relationship with her boyfriend, Darrin Kitchensvia her official Facebook account.
“Then you have something to talk about,” Lauryn wrote on Sunday, September 22 via Facebook. “Cow Wetzel [concert] with my favorite plus-one.”
In the snaps, Lauryn smiled as Kitchens kissed her forehead.
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Kitchens reposted the photos and wrote, “I wouldn’t want to be anywhere else on a Saturday night.”
Weeks earlier, on September 5, Lauryn changed her profile photo to a snapshot of her and Kitchens. “My happy place,” she gushed.
A month earlier, Lauryn also documented the couple’s date night at the Zach Bryan concert. “Zach Bryan tonight. “How lucky we are,” she wrote with her concert photos.
After the show, Kitchens uploaded the same photos to his account. “The greatest risk in life is not to take one at all,” he said in August. “So grateful for you!!!”
Lauryn “Pumpkin” Shannon and Josh Efird.
Thanks to Lauryn Efird/InstagramThe Mama June: from not to hot The star’s romance is her first since her divorce from Efird. We weekly confirmed on Wednesday, September 25, that Lauryn and Efird, who share four children, filed for divorce on September 18, citing that their marriage was “irretrievably broken.” This is evident from court documents obtained by UsLauryn and Efird listed their divorce date as July 1.
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Lauryn and Efird further noted in their filing that they planned to co-parent children Ella, Bentley, Sylus and Stella, requesting to share physical and legal custody.
“Coparenting [is] not hard if you focus on the child and not the other parent’s business,” read an anonymous quote posted to Lauryn’s Facebook earlier this month. Lauryn added an emoji with an upside-down smiling face to her post. Kitchens, in turn, posted the same quote on his page.
Lauryn and Efird married in 2018 and their relationship was often chronicled on her family’s reality TV shows.
“Me and Josh are all about keeping our relationship light,” Lauryn said during a 2018 episode of We TV’s Mama June: from not to hotspecifically referring to her pregnancy with their eldest child. ‘You should always have fun. Josh is many things, but he is not mature. We don’t really talk about serious things, but I have a feeling that’s going to change.
Lauryn is one of the older sisters of Alana “Honey Boo Boo” Thompsonwho was a prominent character in TLC’s Toddlers and tiaras in 2012. This experience provided the family with a Here comes honey Boo Boo spin-off with Alana, now 18, mother Mama June, now 45, Lauryn and sisters Jessica Shannon And Anna ‘Chickadee’ Cardwell. (Anna died in December 2023 at the age of 29 after a battle with stage IV cancer.)