Shauna Rae is a 22-year-old American actress, television personality, and social media star.
Rae rose to fame when her story became the subject of the hit TLC reality television show, I Am Shauna Rae. The show charted her day-to-day life living with her illness and all the side effects that come with it.
When Rae was six months old, she was diagnosed with brain cancer. Thankfully, she received life-saving chemotherapy treatment, but not only did the treatment save her life, but it also rendered her pituitary gland almost dormant.
Her almost dormant pituitary gland caused her to stop growing after she reached 3 feet and 10 inches, the average height of an eight-year-old, which one can imagine has made her life pretty different than the norm.
Rae is from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and lives with her family. This difference is one of the points of contention in the reality show because Rae wants to live independently but cannot due to her illness, or perhaps her parents and family feel like she cannot and haven't allowed her to be able to find out if she can weather the world without their help.
What Happened To Shauna Rae?
The cancer that affected young Shauna Rae's body could have killed her, but the treatment has fused her bones.
In essence, Rae is done growing, and in all purely physical aspects, she looks exactly like an eight-year-old girl. Her condition and the questions that come along with it had caused quite a bit of mental anguish on poor Rae because before the show, she constantly had to prove to people that she was not a little girl but a woman.
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The world around her still struggles with the dichotomy of her existence, and the usual suspects are individuals like bartenders, gym employees, and tattoo artists who immediately mistake Rae for a child and refuse to serve her. The ensuing conversation to convince them of her condition, which to the uninitiated mind can seem far-fetched, is also very mentally taxing for the poor girl, and it's a miracle she has not lost her sanity already.
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According to TLC president Howard Lee, Rae's condition caused a lot of questions in the TLC staff when the subject of a show about her was breached. Lee and the rest of TLC were fascinated by Rae's life and struggle, to the point that it became clear they had to tell her story with all the courage, heart, and sass that she shows daily.
Shauna Rae's Illness And 2022 Update On Health
Recently, Shauna Rae had been complaining about some migraines and rushed to the doctor for a diagnosis.
The worry amongst fans was if her cancer had returned, and due to her medical history, her doctor scheduled a visit to her neurologist. Thankfully, the fans' worries were proven unnecessary as Rae was okay and still cancer-free.
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Although her loved ones always hope for the best, they can't help but prepare for the worst. Her family is pretty overprotective, and it can be seen plenty clearly on camera, but her mother confesses that they have good reason to be since, although Rae is in remission, her cancer could come back swiftly and with a vengeance.
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Rae's family is composed chiefly of her parents, Lesnick and Patricia Schrankel. Patricia Schrankel's introduction to the world was a tearful confession in the show's trailer that she feels guilty about all the challenges her daughter has to face because of her condition and that all she, as a mother, can do is to protect her as much as she can.
The same trailer shows just how much difficulty the parents have over accepting that their little daughter is growing up, and this tension is also one of the driving factors of the show.
Where Is Shauna Rae Now?
Shauna Rae is trucking along on her TLC show and has recently been pressuring her parents to let her move out.
Understandably this has caused some friction between her and her parents, as mentioned above, but Rae has decided not to budge on this decision. After all, she is the one who has to live with the condition, but at the same time, her parents can't help but worry.
This tension has become a sort of thesis for the entire show, and its precisely because there is no end to this argument that the show's tension will never stop, which is good because the longer the show is up, the longer people can watch and understand Shauna Rae's condition.
Rae has stated that she wants to use the show to bring to light many issues that people like herself, suffering from similar illnesses, conditions, and dwarfism face. For example, she has been very vocal about how hard it has been for her to find a sexual partner because most of the people she encounters fetishize her, although Rae has developed quite a radar for this, and how, when she finally found a good partner, having sex with him made her feel like a proper woman and adult.
New episodes of I Am Shauna Rae air on Tuesdays on TLC at 10 p.m. EST.
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