“I am writing a book about my life experiences and journey to overcome the negative moments! I can’t wait to share my story more with y’all.” That is what Shauna Rae told her followers in the summer of 2025. Fifteen months later, the book still has no release date, no publisher, no cover, and no preorder page — just a title, a mission, and fans waiting quietly ever since.
Honest note first: this is not a launch announcement, and there is no breaking news about Shauna Rae today. I Am Shauna Rae ran for two seasons, from 2022 to 2023, and TLC has never officially canceled the show or announced a Season 3. Here is everything we actually know about the book in November 2026.
The Announcement That Came Out of Nowhere
The news arrived on August 1, 2025, via SurvivorNet, which reported that the then-26-year-old was turning her life story into a book called The Making of Shauna Rae. No publishing deal, no release window, no excerpt — just Shauna’s own words on Instagram, and a goal stated plainly: to empower others to build a resilient mindset that rises above adversity.
“I hope this helps other people find positivity in so many situations that make you feel different or put you down, and honestly, I wouldn’t be anywhere without my positivity, so it’s time to spread the knowledge,” she wrote. It was the opposite of a tell-all pitch. Not a reality-show exposé, but a toolkit — how a woman who has spent her whole life being underestimated learned to stay optimistic anyway.
What the Book Is Supposed to Do
Positivity is not a new message for Shauna. In an interview with People, she put it this way: “Being positive is just the best advice I can give because, at the end of the day, the only person that controls how you feel is yourself.” That sentence is, in miniature, the whole pitch for The Making of Shauna Rae.
It is also the message her audience has answered most loudly. People with pituitary dwarfism and other conditions who had never seen anyone like themselves on television wrote to her in numbers she never expected, and the role-model conversation that followed is still one of the liveliest corners of the fandom.
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Those chapters are unlike anyone else’s. Shauna was six months old when doctors found a grade 4 malignant glioma, a cancerous brain tumor. Surgery and about three and a half years of chemotherapy followed, and the treatment saved her life while nearly destroying her pituitary gland — in her own words, it was “rendered almost dormant.” At 16, doctors told her she was done growing, a moment she described to People as feeling like “a hammer crashing into glass.”
The book would also be the first place Shauna tells the smaller chapters on her own terms: the August 2022 day she legally dropped her birth last name, telling Tamron Hall, “Changing my name was a big moment for me because I never connected with it.” The four tattoos she got for personal reasons, to carry the moments of her life with her. A memoir is, in the end, the same idea as a tattoo — a story you choose to wear in public.
Fifteen Months of Silence, and Everything We Still Do Not Know
Here is the other half of the file: since that August 2025 announcement, nothing. No publisher has been named, no release date has surfaced, no cover has leaked, and no preorder link exists anywhere we can verify. The latest coverage turns up the same single SurvivorNet report, repeated and recycled — not a follow-up.
That silence does not mean the book is dead. Shauna has a history of slow-burn projects: her fashion label Fitclusion was announced, designed in public, and left waiting for outside investment. Meanwhile, she talks to more than a million followers on TikTok under @shaunarae99. The show sits in limbo, and the book sits in the same place: announced, real, and unfinished, as far as anyone outside her circle can tell.
So the question splits the fandom the way only a Shauna project can. Team Preorder Day One says the woman who beat brain cancer at six months old has earned the benefit of the doubt, and the buy button gets clicked the second it goes live. Team Believe It When I Hold It says the book counts when there is a cover and a date. If the preorder page appeared tomorrow, would you buy it before reading a single page — or wait until the book proves it is real?
