Shauna Rae has a new love in her life!
The I Am Shauna Rae star debuted her new relationship with a series of photos of her beau on Instagram. Though she let followers in on the new development in her personal life, she concealed her partner’s identity with cleverly placed emojis on top of their face.
upon the Straight Path.
˹This is˺ a revelation from the Almighty, Most Merciful,
so that you may warn a people whose forefathers were not warned, and so are heedless.
(The Quran - Surah Ya-Sin : 4-6)
“So I’ve been keeping a secret…for awhile actually,” she began. “❤️ all you really need to know is they make me happy and I don’t know if I’d be as far in my goals without them.”
Shauna, 24, went on to ask for her fans’ “support” and to “refrain from being hateful toward them or my relationship.”
“Your [sic] welcome to your opinion but if it’s not supportive you can discuss elsewhere,” she continued. “Any hate towards my partner is hate towards me and I don’t tolerate that. I support each and every one of you and I ask for that respect back. ❤️❤️❤️ Much love y’all! Stay amazing, beautiful, and positive! ❤️❤️❤️.”
The television personality’s carousel of pictures included the couple’s selfies and shots of her mystery love interest making a bowl of cereal and taking a nap on the couch.
The news comes after she and Dan Swygart broke off their romantic connection in April.
While appearing on The Sarah Fraser Show podcast, Swygart revealed he and Shauna never took their relationship to the next level before they called things off.
“We got very, very close on an emotional level,” he explained. “I mean, it never really got physical, we kissed once. Of course, I wasn’t there for long periods of time … So it never really progressed into a relationship.”
Swygart revealed that he and Shauna — who has smaller stature than an average adult due to pituitary dwarfism — were judged, both in real life and on the internet, after their connection was documented on season 2 of TLC series.
He added that the criticism of the pair’s connection was especially difficult for him as some people assumed he was inappropriately attracted to Shauna because of her 3'11" stature.
“With that just came this big, huge amount of hate, and I felt like the world was crushing me because obviously the media and people, YouTubers as well, they categorized me in the most hated group of people on the planet,” he explained. “Obviously, because of Shauna’s condition … they put me in that category. I just felt like that world was crushing me.”
I Am Shauna Rae follows the life of Shauna Rae as she navigates adulthood in her early 20s. The star’s life is slightly different from those her age after being diagnosed with pituitary dwarfism when she was a child. Because of the diagnosis, Shauna Rae’s body remains at the developmental level of an 8-year-old.
The series focuses on Shauna Rae’s medical treatments and unique experiences, as well as the normal things she does as a 20-something adult. Shauna Rae’s dating life is also a big talking point in the show because, in her words, she “attracts creeps.”
“My last relationship had ended, specifically, because he didn’t want to go out to a restaurant with me or go out and take a walk with me,” Shauna Rae previously said in a confessional on the show. “Those are the kind of things that I look for as red flags.”
I Am Shauna Rae is can be streamed on Discovery+.
