Shauna Rae Talks Past Cancer Treatment and Early Prevention Tips (EXCLUSIVE)

Sep. 28 2023, Published 5:35 p.m. ET

TLC’s I Am Shauna Rae follows its titular megastar, Shauna Rae Lesick, as she navigates being, consistent with the display’s bio, a twenty-something “caught in a kid’s body.”

On the display, the 23-year-old reality megastar detailed the perils of buying groceries, eating, and courting every week when lots of the global initially thinks you’re Eight years old.

Shauna Rae has also shared the explanation in the back of her small body. She gained a cancer analysis at a tender age that changed her existence endlessly and still affects her nowadays.

In September 2023, Shauna Rae spoke solely with Distractify in partnership with My Special Duck Aflac for Childhood Cancer Awareness Month, which started the similar month.

Shauna Rae says she “felt very reverse of optimistic” while present process cancer treatment as a kid.

Those aware of I Am Shauna Rae know she has no downside sharing how fortunate she is to be alive after just about dropping her lifestyles before it could begin.

Doctors diagnosed Shauna Rae with rare brain cancer at six months old. Upon her diagnosis, she received treatment that in the end put the cancer in remission.

However, the treatment affected her height when her pituitary gland was once left nearly dormant and stunted her expansion.

Shauna Rae’s present top is Three toes and 10 inches tall, the common dimension of maximum 8-year-old children. Shauna Rae exclusively advised Distractify that whilst the treatment saved her existence, she recalled the dwarfism that came later on, causing a “large emotional toll” that used to be tough to overcome.

"Being diagnosed with cancer at six months and later diagnosed with pituitary dwarfism and having that physical impact happen, it was a huge emotional toll on myself," she informed us. "I felt very alone in the battle, I felt very opposite of optimistic; I was very anti-survival."

The TLC big name stated her family, which contains her mother, Patricia Schrankel, step-father Mark Schrankel, and sisters Tara Lesick, and younger sisters Rylee and Morgan Schrankel, tried to stay Shauna Rae’s treatment as “sure” as possible.

However, even with their reinforce, Shauna Rae stated they couldn’t fully grasp what she was once going via.

“They in reality attempted to ensure that they have been there for me emotionally,” Shauna Rae said of her family. “But what they didn't understand is that I wasn't just going via physical equipment, I was going via emotional, social, and psychological equipment that have been all playing an have an effect on on my survival and my remedies and the entirety that I was going via when it got here to my clinical lifestyles.”

Shauna Rae explains that “there’s always early prevention” available for those at risk for cancer.

After enduring her cancer battle, Shauna Rae uses her truth TV popularity to unfold the phrase about cancer prevention and make every other child’s cancer enjoy more uncomplicated with My Special Aflac Duck.

According to a press unencumber, the interactive video game used to be “created in partnership with Empath Labs, psychologists, and kid existence experts” to “assist kids specific their emotions, normalize clinical procedures, and supply comfort and fortify whilst they revel in the unthinkable.”

“It truly is helping the ones children not most effective know that their feelings are legitimate, they're normal to have, but in addition helps the ones folks know how that child is feeling,” Shauna Rae mentioned of the partnership.

Having any person there to validate the sentiments kids unquestionably have is anything Shauna Rae likely may’ve benefitted from right through her early life cancer battle. Although she’s been cancer-free for over two decades, Shauna Rae tells us the revel in remains to be prevalent as of late.

“When it involves cancer screenings, as a previous cancer patient, it never stops,” Shauna Rae defined. “You will have to always know there is all the time early prevention for individuals who have not long past thru it,” “But cancer screenings, MRIs, scans, all of that I have to get achieved on every year assessments. When I was more youthful, and I was in a kids's sanatorium every year, it was once a six-month test. [...] [In adulthood] it has turn into every year checks. And if I think iffy about something, then I go to the physician and get a complete take a look at.”

Reporting via Gabrielle Bernardini.

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