“No, I live with my boyfriend.”
That was Shauna Rae’s answer in January 2025, when Unplanned podcast host Matt Howard asked the question fans thought they already knew the answer to. One sentence, and the whole picture shifted: the 27-year-old who spent two seasons on TLC fighting to be seen as an adult was already living like one — under her own roof, on her own terms.
There is no breaking news about Shauna Rae today: TLC has never officially canceled the show, and it has never announced a Season 3 either. What follows is the timeline from a hospital crib to that podcast answer — every date that matters, in order.
1999: Six Months Old, and a Diagnosis No Baby Should Get
When Shauna Rae was six months old, doctors found a grade 4 malignant glioma — a rare, aggressive form of brain cancer. The treatment saved her life and changed her body forever: it left her with pituitary dwarfism, and at 27 she stands 3-foot-10 in a world built for people twice her height. In 2022 she legally dropped her birth last name, Lesick, and took Schrankel, the name of the man who actually raised her.
2022: The Year the Cameras Found Her
I Am Shauna Rae premiered on January 11, 2022, with the episode “Trapped at Age 8.” Season 1 followed a 22-year-old trying to do ordinary adult things while the world kept treating her like a child: a job working with animals, first dates, her first tattoos. Season 2 arrived that November — a trial run living in Brooklyn, first driving lessons in a car fitted with hand controls, and a shift bartending at a charity event.
Late 2022–2023: The Wheel, the Finale, and the Fashion Line
On December 27, 2022, “Shauna Takes the Wheel” aired, and Shauna passed her driving test. For fans who had watched her fight for every inch of independence, the driving test she passed mattered more than any date or makeover: a license, literally, to go where she wanted without asking for a ride.
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The show ran out of road not long after: the final episode aired on October 1, 2023, after two seasons and 26 episodes. Two months later, on December 14, 2023, Shauna opened the website for Fitclusion, her own fashion label for smaller bodies — born from years of shopping in the children’s section as an adult.
2024–2025: The Boyfriend, the Eggs, and the Rules She Wrote Herself
July 2024 brought the most personal storyline of Shauna’s post-TLC life: PopCulture reported her plans to freeze her eggs, after doctors assessed her fertility at 0.6 on a scale of 1 to 10. Then came January 2025. On Unplanned, Shauna said she lives with her boyfriend — “technically alone,” away from her parents — and confirmed the couple had been together since around 2022. No engagement has been confirmed, and the rule still stands: his face stays off the internet, because she worries about his job. The full picture of what we actually know about her life in 2026 traces back to that one conversation.
November 2026: Three Years Off the Air, and the Timeline Stops Here — For Now
Three years after the final episode, Shauna talks to more than a million followers on TikTok under @shaunarae99, sells personalized video shoutouts on Cameo, and advocates for childhood cancer awareness. She still lives close to her family in Long Island, and fans still argue over the protectiveness debate around her mom Patty. The timeline stops here because the next date does not exist yet — TLC has announced no Season 3, and anyone claiming a premiere date is guessing. But look at the dates that do exist, and the pattern is hard to miss: every time someone told Shauna Rae what her life would look like, she added a new date that proved them wrong.
If TLC finally greenlights Season 3, should the cameras follow Shauna’s life with her boyfriend, or is the Fitclusion fashion line the story fans actually want to see?
