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John Bett

'I'm 22 & stuck in an eight-year-old's body - people criticise my mum non-stop'

A young woman who looks like a child due to a rare condition said she is sick of people tutting as she walks down the street - as they judge her mother for letting her wear makeup.

Shauna Rae is 22 but people regularly think she is an eight-year-old, as when she was a baby she was diagnosed with brain cancer.

The treatment of the disease damaged her pituitary gland, leaving it nearly inactive, so now she stands at just 3ft10, even though she is the age of a fully-grown woman.

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