diff --git a/packages/react-native/ReactCommon/yoga/yoga/algorithm/CalculateLayout.cpp b/packages/react-native/ReactCommon/yoga/yoga/algorithm/CalculateLayout.cpp
index 4e7930a92bc..43983227bec 100644
--- a/packages/react-native/ReactCommon/yoga/yoga/algorithm/CalculateLayout.cpp
+++ b/packages/react-native/ReactCommon/yoga/yoga/algorithm/CalculateLayout.cpp
@@ -1280,6 +1280,19 @@ static void distributeFreeSpaceFirstPass(
   float boundMainSize = 0;
   float deltaFreeSpace = 0;
 
+  // The first pass performs a single distribution of the free space over all
+  // of the line's flexible items, so every item's tentative size must be
+  // computed against the *original* totals.  The totals are still reduced as
+  // items get frozen below (so the second pass can redistribute), but those
+  // reduced values must not feed back into the fair-share calculation for the
+  // remaining items: doing so inflates their tentative size and can freeze
+  // items that should still be able to grow/shrink (see
+  // https://github.com/react/yoga/issues/2006).
+  const float originalTotalFlexGrowFactors =
+      flexLine.layout.totalFlexGrowFactors;
+  const float originalTotalFlexShrinkScaledFactors =
+      flexLine.layout.totalFlexShrinkScaledFactors;
+
   for (auto currentLineChild : flexLine.itemsInFlow) {
     float childFlexBasis = boundAxisWithinMinAndMax(
                                currentLineChild,
@@ -1299,8 +1312,7 @@ static void distributeFreeSpaceFirstPass(
           flexShrinkScaledFactor != 0) {
         baseMainSize = childFlexBasis +
             flexLine.layout.remainingFreeSpace /
-                flexLine.layout.totalFlexShrinkScaledFactors *
-                flexShrinkScaledFactor;
+                originalTotalFlexShrinkScaledFactors * flexShrinkScaledFactor;
         boundMainSize = boundAxisWithAutoMin(
             currentLineChild,
             mainAxis,
@@ -1328,8 +1340,8 @@ static void distributeFreeSpaceFirstPass(
       // Is this child able to grow?
       if (yoga::isDefined(flexGrowFactor) && flexGrowFactor != 0) {
         baseMainSize = childFlexBasis +
-            flexLine.layout.remainingFreeSpace /
-                flexLine.layout.totalFlexGrowFactors * flexGrowFactor;
+            flexLine.layout.remainingFreeSpace / originalTotalFlexGrowFactors *
+                flexGrowFactor;
         boundMainSize = boundAxis(
             currentLineChild,
             mainAxis,