Shauna Rae on Infertility, Leaving an Abusive Relationship & Hiding My Boyfriend from the Public

The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby

Matt & Abby

Society & Culture

4.8 • 16.1K Ratings

🗓️ 29 January 2025

⏱️ 94 minutes

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Shauna Rae joins Matt and Abby to share her journey of overcoming challenges shaped by her rare condition, pituitary dwarfism. She opens up about facing discrimination, struggling with infertility, escaping an abusive relationship, and why she’s keeping her boyfriend’s identity private. This episode is sponsored by LiquidIV, Acorns Early, Beam and AdoreMe. LiquidIV: Get 20% off your first order of Liquid I.V. when you go to https://LiquidIV.com and use code UNPLANNED at checkout. Acorns Early: Head to https://acornsearly.com/unplanned or download the Acorns app to get started. Beam: Try Beam’s best-selling Dream Powder and get up to 40% off for a limited time when you go to https://shopbeam.com/unplanned and use code UNPLANNED at checkout. AdoreMe: For bra and panty sets for as low as $19.95, head to https://AdoreMe.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:29.7	I was in a very abusive relationship, and it happens to like one and four women.
0:34.3	Oh.
0:34.9	Oh, it's fine.
0:35.6	No, it's not fine.
0:36.3	It's not fine.
0:37.0	Nothing's fine about that. It's fine now for me.
0:39.3	It's very easy to be prey in this world as a tiny little girl. My parents taught me that from a very
0:44.5	young age. Any guy that's interested in you, you have to read into them because there's a chance
0:48.7	that it's about your size. How do you feel about not being able to have kids? It's a little hard with TLC because they reopened it.
0:55.2	Then after they found out how much it was going to cost, they could not do it unless I paid for it myself.
1:01.0	Today on Unplanned, we sat down with the 25-year-old star of the TLC show, I am Shauna Ray.
1:06.2	At just three feet and 10 inches tall, Shana's life has been shaped by her battle with pediatric cancer,
1:11.5	which left her with a rare condition called pituitary dwarfism.
1:15.0	The condition significantly stunned her growth as a child,
1:17.6	and now as a woman, she faces discrimination.
1:20.4	We dive into her struggles with predators, infertility,
1:23.9	keeping her boyfriend's identity private,
1:25.8	and how she escaped an abusive relationship all on
1:28.6	today's episode.
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