Dan, Thomas, or the Mystery Man? Shauna Rae’s Dating History Explained — and the Suitor Fans Still Miss

Dating is hard. Dating as a 27-year-old woman who is 3-foot-10 and gets mistaken for an 8-year-old is something else entirely. Over two seasons of I Am Shauna Rae — and the years after the cameras — her love life has given fans DM slides, a matchmaker disaster, a firefighter, and a boyfriend whose face nobody has ever seen. Here’s the full timeline, no clickbait required.

The Welsh DM Slide: Dan’s Cross-Continental Romance

It started in the DMs. Dan, 26, from Wales, messaged Shauna after reading her story — and she answered. What followed was strictly long-distance, until Dan flew to the United States to meet her family in Season 2, as reported by UNILAD.

Dan even invited Shauna as his plus-one to a friend’s wedding in Malaysia. Her parents said it would be great — stepdad Mark said Dan would protect her. But Shauna was realistic: “They probably wouldn’t let me go if it actually happened.”

The Matchmaker Disaster: When TLC Tried to Play Cupid

In Season 2 Episode 3, Shauna tried the old-fashioned route — and fans watched it blow up in real time. The first blind date didn’t even own a car, so Mark and sister Rylee drove Shauna there — only for the guy to cancel while she was en route.

The second date, Abraham, was better: axe throwing and laughs. But Shauna sensed friendship, not fireworks — and fans agreed, slamming the matchmaker online for finding “non-compatible men,” as Sportskeeda reported. Ouch.

The Firefighter Fans Never Got Over

Then came Thomas — the Long Island firefighter who also lives with pituitary dwarfism. The chemistry was obvious, the date was sweet, and the family crashed it. Mark and Rylee joined uninvited, and fans still debate whether the family was protecting Shauna or sabotaging her.

Shauna didn’t say whether she’d see Thomas again — but she shouted out his crew on Instagram, thanking the Islip Terrace Fire Department for “keeping our world a little safer.” Since then? Nothing public. Thomas quietly became the great what-if of the series — the one guy who understood her body from the inside out.

The Mystery Man: Two Years, Zero Face Reveals

Here’s where the story goes off-camera. On the Unplanned Podcast in January 2025, Shauna confirmed she was in a serious relationship — and was deliberately keeping him invisible.

“Neither one of us care if his face is out there,” she said. “I more worry because he has a nice job. I don’t want anything bad going to the job.” Her line in the sand: “Unless I’m marrying him, or spending my rest of my life with him, his face isn’t going to be shown.”

Fans speculate the couple had been together about two years by early 2025. No name, no face, no wedding — and Shauna seems perfectly happy to keep it that way. After years of men treating her like “a science experiment,” as she put it on the show, you can hardly blame her for guarding the one thing that’s actually hers.

So Who Was the Best Match?

Dan brought the grand romantic gesture — crossing an ocean for her. Thomas brought the one thing nobody else could: a shared body, a shared experience. And the mystery man brought something neither of them managed: staying power, on her terms.

So here’s the question for the group tonight: Team Dan (the faraway romantic), Team Thomas (the one who truly got it), or Team Mystery Man (the one who stayed)? Drop your pick below — and be nice, this is the lady’s love life, not a courtroom.