At 22, Shauna Rae resembles an 8-year-old girl as a result of her growth being stunted by life-saving cancer treatments that she received at the age of 6. But as a young woman looking to make her mark in the world, the star of TLC's docuseries "I Am Shauna Rae" hopes to clear up people's misconceptions of her.
"People don't understand dwarfism in general," Rae says of living with pituitary dwarfism. "People think I'm unintelligent because they view me as my height and as a child that would match that height, I get talked down to. That is probably like one of the hardest parts about it is because I'm constantly having to prove myself."
This interview originally ran on Yahoo Life on Feb. 15, 2022: yhoo.it/3ZGaxn0
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