Honey Boo Boo in Girl Scouts: Reality Star Becomes Member After Cookie Sales (PHOTOS)
Honey Boo Boo could consider joining the Girl Scouts, considering all the effort that she has put into the sale of Girl Scout cookies for a family friend. She may have done just that, based on her Facebook account.
It appears that Alana Thompson, the star of "Here Comes Honey Boo Boo," has just become an official Girl Scout. The reality star announced on Tuesday afternoon via her Facebook page that she had just become on an official member of the troop.
"Official GirlScout! She's so excited to be in the troop :)" a message read on the star's wall with the photo of Thompson in a Girl Scout shirt.
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She was previously spotted with troop leaders at the Milledgeville Mall in Georgia helping to promote the sale of cookies. The mall is Thompson's second effort after she was prevented from selling cookies on her Facebook.
The reality star announced last month on Facebook that she would be taking orders for Girl Scout cookies at $3.50 a box, plus shipping. But for added advantage, those who bought cookies from Alana Thompson were promised an autographed box and family picture.
The reality star, whose pages has 701,000 "Likes," later posted a photo to her page revealing the large number of boxes she had sold. The problem is that Alana was not an official Girl Scout at the time.
"What we felt was inappropriate is that it appeared that Honey Boo Boo herself was selling the cookies, and she's not a Girl Scout," Debbie Caballero, a marketing and communications officer for the Girls Scouts of Historic Georgia, told ABC News Radio last week.
In addition, it appears the Girl Scout officials were not happy about Alana's sales techniques and shut down the Facebook sales last week. Selling cookies online goes against the "whole purpose of selling the cookies," a representative for Girl Scouts USA said in a statement to TMZ.
The representative added that the selling of cookies was supposed "to teach girls all sorts of things, including goal setting, people skills, etc."
