One thousand one hundred and forty days. That is how long it has been since TLC aired a new episode of I Am Shauna Rae — and the fandom has spent every one of them arguing about the same five questions.
Honest note: there is no breaking news today — no new season, no announcement. The show ran two seasons, ending October 1, 2023, and TLC has never canceled it or announced a Season 3. Shauna is 27 now, 3-foot-10 after childhood brain cancer treatment left her with pituitary dwarfism. The cameras are gone. The arguments never left.
No. 5: The Fashion School Question
The gentlest fight on the list. Shauna weighed applying to the Fashion Institute of Technology in Season 2 — then launched Fitclusion, her own label for people 5-foot-4 and below, in December 2023. Team Enroll says a degree is the missing piece. Team Skip It says she already has the only credential that matters: a label and a problem nobody else in fashion is solving. The FIT-or-Fitclusion question stays polite because both sides want the same thing.
No. 4: Freeze Now or Wait?
This one stopped being polite the moment numbers entered the chat. In a July 23, 2024 video, Shauna said her fertility measured 0.6 on a scale of 1 to 10, down from 0.8 two months earlier, and she needed to freeze her eggs within “six or so months, probably sooner.” She launched a fundraiser, and ruled out embryos with her boyfriend — “a huge commitment.” Then the updates stopped. Sixteen months after the six-month window she gave herself, nobody knows whether the procedure ever happened. Team Freeze Now says that clock does not pause for debate. Team Wait says a decision this personal and this expensive is hers alone to time.
No. 3: Dan or Thomas?
The dating debate splits the fandom down the middle. On one side, Dan Swygart, the Welshman who flew 3,000 miles to meet Shauna in December 2022 and was branded a “creep” online — reportedly receiving death threats. On the other, Thomas, the firefighter who shares Shauna’s height and her diagnosis, who taught her to hold a fire hose at a charity event in Season 2, Episode 8. Team Height Doesn’t Matter says Shauna chose Dan. Team Same Height says Thomas understood her life without an explanation. Nobody in this fight is neutral.
No. 2: Hide Him or Show Him?
The boyfriend rule is the argument that never cools down. On the Unplanned podcast in January 2025, Shauna said she lives with her boyfriend — “technically alone,” away from her parents — and his face stays off the internet “unless I’m marrying him.” According to reports, they have been together since around 2022, and no engagement has been confirmed. Team Show Him says a million followers deserve the full picture. Team Hide Him Forever says the rule is the whole point: a woman who spent two seasons having her body discussed by strangers gets to draw one line nobody crosses, and the face rule she set herself has never once been broken.
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The war to end all wars. Three years of silence from TLC, and the fandom has split into two camps that barely speak to each other. Team Bring Back Season 3 says a 27-year-old with a million-plus TikTok followers under @shaunarae99 and a fashion label deserves cameras on a life that kept moving without a timeslot. Team Leave Her Alone says she already built something better on her own terms — no producers, no confessionals. Shauna herself has said nothing about a return — which, depending on your camp, is either a hint or none of our business.
So pick your hill: Team Bring Her Back or Team Leave Her Alone — and if TLC called tomorrow, what would you tell Shauna to do about Dan, Thomas, and the boyfriend nobody has ever seen?
