A 23-year-old woman who is "trapped in the body of an eight-year-old" has revealed her new love interest and introduced him to her parents.
Shauna Rae Lesick is 3 feet 10 inches tall and weighs 50 pounds at 23 years of age after undergoing treatment for brain cancer as an infant which subsequently affected her pituitary gland, resulting in her developing pituitary dwarfism, per the Daily Mail.
The star of the TLC show I Am Shauna Rae revealed in the latest series that finding love can be tricky due to her height and that she often draws the wrong kind of attention.
"My relationship status is single. I'm short, leave me alone. I attract creeps, a**holes, and idiots," Rae revealed. "It is scary to put myself out there, but you have to put some risk in to get happiness."
Check out the trailer for the TV show below:While speaking to the New York Post, the 23-year-old revealed how she spots those who aren't interested in making a genuine connection: "I’ve just developed the ability to spot someone who may not have the best intentions because they give themselves away," she said.
"Their questions are very targeted towards my physicality […] They’re learning about me like I’m a specimen in a lab."
However, Rae appears to have found love. During the series, she opens up about how she met her current love interest Dan Swygart.
Swygart is a 26-year-old traveler from Wales who reached out to Rae after seeing the show and even sent her flowers. The pair began talking and evidently, they hit it off!
"Dan and I met through social media, and we talked for a couple of months," Rae explained. "He travels so often, so he doesn't have service everywhere he goes. We kind of just got along, and we have a lot similar in our lives."
She went on to explain how traveling has always been an interest to her and that Swygart's love of adventuring really gained her interest.
After the pair chatted online for a while, Swygart came to Rae's hometown in Long Island, New York, and they went on a date at an escape room, joined by her half-sister Rylee.
The second date was slightly more awkward as the pair made Sushi rolls at Rae's home while Swygart received an interrogation from her mother and stepfather.
"I think Dan would be a really good match for Shauna because he's very smart [and] adventurous. Shauna's smart but not very adventurous," her stepfather Mark Schrankel told the camera.
He claimed that the pair could travel the world together, but this claim was met with apprehension from Patty, Rae's mother. They had candidly told the documentary crew that they were worried about their daughter attracting pedophiles due to her appearance.
Rae and Swygart shared a slow dance at a charity event before he had to leave, with the 23-year-old revealing she will see where things go as long-distance relationships aren't her "cup of tea."
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