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THERE are many things she’s just had to learn to accept: if she goes into a bar she’ll invariably be asked for her ID and if she goes shopping for new clothes she’ll be directed to the kids’ department because everything in the adult section will be far too big for her.

As viewers of her reality TV show I Am Shauna Rae know, life is much more complicated for 23-year-old American Shauna Rae Lesnick than it is for her friends.

Standing just 1,21m tall, she’s roughly the same height as an eight-year-old and this leads to all kinds of humiliating problems and misunderstandings.

But the stares and judgemental comments Shauna from

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