On Aug. 1, the Mama June: Household Disaster star filed for divorce from her husband of six years, Josh Efird, claiming that their marriage is “irretrievably broken.” The previous couple, who share 4 kids—Ella, 6, Bentley, 3, and 2-year-old twins Sylus and Stella—have apparently been in a “bona fide state of separation” since July, in response to Lauryn and the settlement settlement.
The pair have agreed to share joint authorized and bodily custody, in response to courtroom paperwork. In addition they have a parenting plan in place throughout the settlement settlement and have every waived the suitable to request little one help.
Josh, 28, has been given 60 days to take away his belongings from the household’s shared house in Georgia, as Lauryn, 24, will likely be taking on the property herself, per the paperwork.
Pumpkin and Josh tied the knot in 2018, almost six months after welcoming their first little one collectively.
“They say [babies] change things, but honestly I think a kid is maybe what we needed in our relationship,” she instructed Us Weekly in 2018. “We’ve become closer than any other time. We both help each other out. It’s like it’s a team thing now.”
Lauryn has usually praised her husband’s abilities as a father on social media. Whereas she has posted much less this yr, in a June 2022 Instagram submit, she known as Josh the “BEST father I’ve known.”
“All my life I prayed God would send me someone I could have a family with and love forever and he sent me you. Thank you for being the best father to all of our babies including Alana,” she wrote within the caption, referring to her youthful sister, Alana “Honey Boo Boo” Thompson.
“You’ve never failed to show up and show the kids what a real man is. I’ll forever be thankful for you. Me and the kids love you so very much. ❤️❤️❤️.”
Each Josh and Pumpkin have been trustworthy about their ups and downs all through their relationship, together with the toll Pumpkin’s mother, 44-year-old Mama June Shannon, has had on them, particularly when she made headlines.
“Over the last couple of years,” she shared in a 2022 episode of Mama June: Highway to Redemption, “Mama has been a lot of me and Josh’s marriage problems.”
However as they shared on the time, they had been making an attempt their finest to maneuver ahead and stay a united entrance, with Pumpkin noting, “We’re trying to put our marriage as the top priority.”
Mama June shares daughters Anna “Chickadee” Cardwell and Jessica Shannon with ex David Dunn, Lauryn with ex Michael Anthony Ford, and Alana with ex Mike “Sugar Bear” Thompson.
Nevertheless, it has been a troublesome yr for their household as they grappled with the loss of life of Anna in December. She was recognized with stage 4 adrenal carcinoma final yr and died months later on the age of 29.
