Mama June Opens Up About Daughter Anna ‘Chickadee’s Cancer Prognosis: ‘We Know It’s Terminal’

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Mama June Shannon is opening up about her daughter’s cancer battle. While speaking to ET’s Deidre Behar, the “Mama June: From Not to Hot” star revealed how her eldest daughter, Anna “Chickadee” Cardwell, is doing as she battles stage 4 adrenal carcinoma. “She’s actually doing pretty good,” Mama June told ET. “She’s handling it pretty good.” Lauryn “Pumpkin” Efird agreed, telling ET that her older sister “genuinely is OK.” “She can still go to the grocery store, she can drive herself, she’s still able to take the kids to and from places,” Lauryn said, before noting that Anna “doesn’t have hair, she has no eyebrows, she doesn’t have any hair on her arms or anything like that.” Mama June noted that, thus far, Anna has completed four rounds of chemotherapy. “A lot of people thought that it was gonna make her sick and stuff like that, [but] she’s able to bounce back pretty quick,” Lauryn said, with her younger sister,  Alana “Honey Boo Boo” Thompson, adding, “It does wear her body down sometimes, but other than that, she’s pretty good.” Anna’s kids — Kaitlyn, 10, and Kylee, 7 — are getting by too. “The 10-year-old is aware, I don’t think she fully understands,” Lauryn said of Kaitlyn. “I think she understands that Mommy is sick and Mommy might not be here for a while… She’s 10, but she’s a lot more mature than that because she’s been raised around older people.” Mama June additionally noted, “Kaitlyn was always close with Anna, but now she doesn’t go anywhere without Anna.

I get that because she’s thinking if Anna goes somewhere then maybe Anna might not be at the house when she gets back.” Kylee, however, is “too young to understand” what’s going on, according to Alana. “Yeah,” Mama June agreed, “she just knows Mama’s