She made her fame as a cute child beauty queen.

“My name is Alana.”

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Alana Thompson smiling

“It’s very, very hard.

It’s something I’d wish on nobody, for real.”

“I should be in my own bed in my mom’s house just chilling, you know?”

Ella Efird, Alana Thompson, Lauryn Efird

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“Now I’m proud of how far I’ve come.”

“I don’t know what future Alana’s like,” she tells the interviewer.

“I haven’t met her yet.”