A 22-year-old, Shauna Rae’s growth was stunned after surviving brain cancer as a child. Rae is now a young woman stuck in the body of 8 years old.
Rae was only 6 months old when she was diagnosed with brain cancer. Due to damage caused in her pituitary gland, her growth stopped. As a result, the young woman is frequently mistaken for a child due to her side effects.
Shauna Rae’s Cancer Treatment
When Rae was just six months old, she was diagnosed with brain cancer. Rae underwent chemotherapy that saved her life. But the chemotherapy also caused damage to her pituitary gland, which has caused her to stop growth.
Although, there has been no conclusive evidence that severe deformation of Rae’s pituitary gland has been caused by chemotherapy. The treatment of cancer has been occasionally known to cause endocrine problems in patients.
A life-saving chemotherapy treatment rendered Rae’s pituitary gland almost dormant. Rae stopped growing and she is only 3 feet and 10 inches tall. This is an average height of an 8-year-old.
Problems and Effects Caused
The young woman despite looking like a child tried to get over her problem. Rae longs to be treated as an adult.
In a recently released exclusive trailer of the 22-year-old star of TLC’s new docuseries I Am Shauna Rae, she explained, “If you were to look at me, you would think I’m just a normal little girl doing normal little girl things with my fun, crazy family,”.
It was further added, “But the truth is: I’m not a little girl. I’m a woman, a 22-year-old woman stuck in the body of an 8-year-old.”
Shauna is followed by I Am Shauna Rae as she goes barhopping, takes a pole dancing class, and gets a tattoo. On January 11, Tuesday the New TLC series premiere.
Rae stated, “Even though physically I can’t grow up, I desperately want to be treated like a grown-up,” Shauna reveals in the teaser. “I am working on my independence.”
Shauna’s mother shares that she feels guilty that her daughter suffers from stigmas. Her mother stated through tears, “She will have to go through this for the rest of her life. So all I can do is protect her.”
Also, Rae’s biggest fear is to enter into the dating world. Her perspective of it is, “ I attract creeps, a––holes and idiots,”. Further, it was added, “It is scary to put myself out there but you have to put some risk to get happiness.”