Are you fascinated by Honey Boo Boo? Well, Barbara Walters sure is -- and she's put the love-her-or-hate-her reality tot on her list of the Most Fascinating People of 2012.

Babs, who presents her list every year around the holidays, has included everyone from Michelle Obama to Lady Gaga on past lists, but pint-sized pageant queen Alana Thompson?

Walters tells Us magazine, "Honey Boo Boo is not an obnoxious little girl. She's sweet and loving with her mother and loving with her sisters [Jessica, Lauryn and Anna]. And now Anna has a new baby, and the baby has [three] thumbs -- but so what? It'll make you smile. It's a very sweet, loving story."

For the full list of Most Fascinating People, tune in to Walters' ABC special on December 12th.