diff --git a/tests/YGFirstChildMinWidthTest.cpp b/tests/YGFirstChildMinWidthTest.cpp
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..7a4c85184c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/YGFirstChildMinWidthTest.cpp
@@ -0,0 +1,72 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright (c) Meta Platforms, Inc. and affiliates.
+ *
+ * This source code is licensed under the MIT license found in the
+ * LICENSE file in the root directory of this source tree.
+ */
+
+// Regression test for https://github.com/react/yoga/issues/2006
+// A row of three growable children (flexGrow/flexShrink 1, maxWidth 180) inside
+// a 540px container. When the *first* child has a larger minWidth than the
+// rest, the first free-space pass used to freeze every item at its max while
+// also draining the remaining free space to exactly zero, leaving the second
+// pass with nothing to distribute. The children then collapsed to their
+// minWidths (60/30/30) instead of growing to fill the row (180/180/180).
+
+#include <gtest/gtest.h>
+#include <yoga/Yoga.h>
+
+namespace {
+
+// Lay out a 540px row containing three children, each with flexGrow/
+// flexShrink of 1, maxWidth of `maxW` and the given minWidths, and assert
+// every child grows to maxWidth (the row exactly fills the container).
+void expectAllGrowToMax(float minWidth0, float minWidth1, float minWidth2) {
+  YGConfigRef config = YGConfigNew();
+  YGNodeRef root = YGNodeNewWithConfig(config);
+  YGNodeStyleSetWidth(root, 540.0f);
+  YGNodeStyleSetFlexDirection(root, YGFlexDirectionRow);
+
+  float minWidths[] = {minWidth0, minWidth1, minWidth2};
+  for (size_t i = 0; i < 3; i++) {
+    YGNodeRef child = YGNodeNewWithConfig(config);
+    YGNodeStyleSetFlexGrow(child, 1.0f);
+    YGNodeStyleSetFlexShrink(child, 1.0f);
+    YGNodeStyleSetMaxWidth(child, 180.0f);
+    YGNodeStyleSetHeight(child, 30.0f);
+    YGNodeStyleSetMinWidth(child, minWidths[i]);
+    YGNodeInsertChild(root, child, i);
+  }
+
+  YGNodeCalculateLayout(root, 540.0f, 30.0f, YGDirectionLTR);
+
+  for (size_t i = 0; i < 3; i++) {
+    YGNodeRef child = YGNodeGetChild(root, i);
+    EXPECT_NEAR(180.0f, YGNodeLayoutGetWidth(child), 1e-3f)
+        << "child[" << i
+        << "] should grow to maxWidth, not collapse to its minWidth";
+  }
+
+  YGNodeFreeRecursive(root);
+  YGConfigFree(config);
+}
+
+} // namespace
+
+TEST(YGFirstChildMinWidth, first_child_larger_minwidth_row) {
+  // The originally reported case: the first child has a larger minWidth than
+  // the other two, which used to break the whole row.
+  expectAllGrowToMax(60.0f, 30.0f, 30.0f);
+}
+
+TEST(YGFirstChildMinWidth, other_positions_still_work) {
+  // Sanity: placing the outlier minWidth on the second or third child already
+  // worked and must keep working.
+  expectAllGrowToMax(30.0f, 60.0f, 30.0f);
+  expectAllGrowToMax(30.0f, 30.0f, 60.0f);
+}
+
+TEST(YGFirstChildMinWidth, uniform_minwidth_row) {
+  // All children share the same minWidth: no issue either way.
+  expectAllGrowToMax(30.0f, 30.0f, 30.0f);
+}
diff --git a/yoga/algorithm/CalculateLayout.cpp b/yoga/algorithm/CalculateLayout.cpp
index 4e7930a92b..d119be469f 100644
--- a/yoga/algorithm/CalculateLayout.cpp
+++ b/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,
@@ -1299,7 +1312,7 @@ static void distributeFreeSpaceFirstPass(
           flexShrinkScaledFactor != 0) {
         baseMainSize = childFlexBasis +
             flexLine.layout.remainingFreeSpace /
-                flexLine.layout.totalFlexShrinkScaledFactors *
+                originalTotalFlexShrinkScaledFactors *
                 flexShrinkScaledFactor;
         boundMainSize = boundAxisWithAutoMin(
             currentLineChild,
@@ -1329,7 +1342,7 @@ static void distributeFreeSpaceFirstPass(
       if (yoga::isDefined(flexGrowFactor) && flexGrowFactor != 0) {
         baseMainSize = childFlexBasis +
             flexLine.layout.remainingFreeSpace /
-                flexLine.layout.totalFlexGrowFactors * flexGrowFactor;
+                originalTotalFlexGrowFactors * flexGrowFactor;
         boundMainSize = boundAxis(
             currentLineChild,
             mainAxis,