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 damaged.” The previous couple, who share 4 youngsters—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 inside the settlement settlement and have every waived the appropriate to request little one help.
Josh, 28, has been given 60 days to take away his belongings from the household’s shared residence in Georgia, as Lauryn, 24, will likely be taking up 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 are saying [babies] change issues, however actually I believe a child is perhaps what we wanted in our relationship,” she instructed Us Weekly in 2018. “We’ve turn out to be nearer than every other time. We each assist one another out. It’s prefer it’s a staff factor now.”
Lauryn has usually praised her husband’s expertise as a father on social media. Whereas she has posted much less this yr, in a June 2022 Instagram publish, she known as Josh the “BEST father I’ve recognized.”
“All my life I prayed God would ship me somebody I might have a household with and love without end and he despatched me you. Thanks for being the very best father to all of our infants together with Alana,” she wrote within the caption, referring to her youthful sister, Alana “Honey Boo Boo” Thompson.
“You’ve by no means failed to point out up and present the youngsters what an actual man is. I’ll without end be glad about you. Me and the youngsters love you so very a lot. ❤️❤️❤️.”
Each Josh and Pumpkin have been sincere 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 past couple of years,” she shared in a 2022 episode of Mama June: Highway to Redemption, “Mama has been plenty of me and Josh’s marriage issues.”
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 making an attempt to place our marriage as the highest precedence.”
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.
Nonetheless, it has been a troublesome yr for his or her household as they grappled with the dying of Anna in December. She was identified with stage 4 adrenal carcinoma final yr and died months later on the age of 29.