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Girl who ‘appears like an eight-year-old’ opens up about ‘creeps’ that wish to date her

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29 May 2025 08:07
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A lady who ‘appears like an eight-year-old’ has defined the risks she must be cautious of when courting.

Shauna Rae stands at simply 3ft and 10 inches tall and weighs round 50lbs, so upon first look, she appears lots youthful than her precise age.

When she was a baby, Shauna was recognized with mind most cancers and subsequently underwent chemotherapy remedy.

Though it saved her life, it additionally triggered lasting harm to her pituitary gland, which is a small, pea-sized endocrine gland situated on the base of your mind.

It is liable for producing and releasing hormones to assist your metabolism, stress response and replica, amongst different issues – together with progress.

Because of the influence the chemo had on her pituitary gland, Shauna skilled stunted progress and in consequence, she is barely shorter than the common eight-year-old within the US.

The Lengthy Island native shared an perception into her distinctive life with viewers in a actuality collection titled I Am Shauna Rae, seeing her purchase a military of supporters on-line.

Shauna Rae revealed that her dad and mom warned her to be cautious of individuals’s courting intentions from a younger age (Instagram/@thereal_shaunarae99)

For essentially the most half, she takes her circumstances in her stride, even joking in her Instagram bio: “I listened when my Mama advised me to not develop up.”

Nevertheless, the 25-year-old additionally would not shrink back from discussing the truth of what life is like for somebody who appears like a ‘tiny little woman’, regardless of being an grownup girl.

She defined that her measurement makes it ‘very straightforward to be prey’, in additional methods than one – however her dad and mom have been significantly eager to organize her for the way this might influence her courting life.

Talking on The Unplanned Podcast earlier this yr, the social media star defined that her mom Patricia and stepfather Mark taught her that she wanted to be extra-wary ‘from a really younger age’.

Shauna mentioned: “They have been like, ‘Look – any man that’s considering you, any individual that’s considering you, it’s important to learn into them… as a result of there’s an opportunity that it’s about your measurement.

“I grew up figuring out that, and that was scary. I used to be scared up to now. I used to be scared to flirt with anybody. I used to be scared to even be requested out.”

She recalled how her instinctive response to a boy asking her out within the cafeteria on her first day at college was: “Are you a predator?”

The fact TV star is in a relationship however has not revealed the identification of her associate (YouTube/Unplanned Podcast)

The fact TV star mentioned that her dad and mom warned her that folks have been ‘going to probably view her in another way’ when it got here to issues of the guts.

Regurgitating the recommendation she had been given as a teen, Shauna mentioned: “What you wish to search for is constructing a friendship, constructing a base.

“On the finish of the day, it isn’t about appears – you are going to get outdated, you are going to get ugly, you are going to get grouchy, you are going to get crotchety.

“They have been like, ‘You wish to discover somebody who you possibly can construct a base bond with, and also you’re most likely going to finish up with somebody who was your pal for a very, actually longtime and so they lastly determined that they such as you’.”

Shauna additionally opened up about her present relationship and why she retains it below wraps whereas chatting with podcast hosts Matt and Abby Howard.

“Neither considered one of us care if his face is on the market,” she mentioned. “I extra fear as a result of he has a pleasant job. I don’t need something unhealthy going to the job. The job is aware of who I’m, they know what I do for my residing, they love me.

“However with all the things that social media is and all the things I do know my boyfriend isn’t, I simply don’t need him to be labelled one thing and him not be my associate eternally.

“At this level, except I’m marrying him, or spending my remainder of my life with him, his face isn’t going to be proven.”

Discussing the prospect of him being labelled a ‘predator’ by trolls on-line, Shauna mentioned though it was ‘upsetting’, she would merely ignore the negativity.

“It’s extra unhappy as a result of I’m simply trying on the lack of schooling,” she added. “None of them on the web wish to hear. It’s simply the very fact they haven’t met me in individual to know that I’m only a human being.

“I’m simply brief. I’m only a tiny individual.”

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