Here Comes Honey Boo Boo star Kaitlyn Cardwell has successful surgery to have extra thumb removed

By Justin Enriquez and Christine Rendon For Dailymail.com

Published: 12:55 EST, 16 November 2016 | Updated: 15:19 EST, 16 November 2016

Kaitlyn Cardwell has had surgery to have her extra thumb removed.

The four-year-old Here Comes Honey Boo Boo bravely went under the knife to have the appendage removed recently.

According to TMZ, her mom Anna - who is the daughter of 'Mama' June Shannon - made the decision last month to have the finger from her right hand removed.

Brave: Kaitlyn Cardwell has had surgery to have her extra thumb removed

Before: The four-year-old had an extra thumb growing on her right hand

The procedure went well and recovery went even faster than expected so she had the cast removed early according to the gossip site. 

Her mother had explained to the site previously that the surgery was done to preventing teasing and to avoid a future medical issue. 

Anna, 22, had previously revealed that her daughter would be entering surgery on October 18. 

All better: According to TMZ, her recovery went faster than expected and she had her cast removed early as her hand is shown without the extra appendage 

The reality star wrote in a Facebook post: 'Well today is this the day my baby girls surgery for her thumb in less than 4 and half hours we have to be at the hospital and me to go in mommy mode and stress worrying if everything is going to be okay which I know it will just everyone pray everything goes smooth.'

Kaitlyn's thumb was addressed on her family's now-cancelled reality show, Here Comes Honey Boo Boo.

In an episode that aired in 2014, Mama June accompanied Anna and Kaitlyn to a doctor's appointment as they discussed surgically removing the thumb.

Close look: On a 2014 episode of Here Comes Honey Boo Boo, Kaitlyn's second thumb was seen in an X-ray

Protective: Kaitlyn's mother Anna Cardwell, pictured in 2014, told her Facebook followers on October 18 that she would be entering 'mommy mode' as she took her daughter to the hospital for surgery  

Anna decided not to take the doctor's advice to have the thumb removed right away.

'I want to wait a year first,' she said, citing concerns about paralysis and problems with anesthesia.

The decision did not come easily for the teenager.

Weighing their options: In an episode that aired in 2014, Mama June accompanied Anna and Kaitlyn to a doctor's appointment as they discussed removing the thumbg

Proud grandma: June Shannon, pictured in New York in 2013, is Kaitlyn's grandmother

'It’s hard being a mother,' she sobbed as she weighed up her options.

'I'm worried people are gonna start picking on her if I don’t get it removed,' she said.

Anna welcomed her second child, daughter Kylee Madison, last year.

The child was her first with her husband Michael Cardwell, who she married in Georgia in 2014. 

Family matters: TLC's now-cancelled reality show Here Comes Honey Boo Boo starred June Shannon, Jessica Shannon, Cardwell, Lauryn Shannon, Mike Thompson, and Alana Thompson

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