diff --git a/packages/react-native/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/views/text/ReactTextView.java b/packages/react-native/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/views/text/ReactTextView.java
index eed89a0aa56..fb58329875e 100644
--- a/packages/react-native/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/views/text/ReactTextView.java
+++ b/packages/react-native/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/views/text/ReactTextView.java
@@ -257,6 +257,15 @@ protected void onDraw(Canvas canvas) {
 
       if (spanned != null) {
         Layout layout = getLayout();
+        if (layout == null && getWidth() > 0 && getHeight() > 0) {
+          // setText drops the Layout and Fabric re-measures only on a frame change, so a text
+          // update that kept the frame reaches onDraw without one and the effects below would be
+          // skipped. Rebuild it here; TextView.onDraw would build one for the text anyway.
+          measure(
+              MeasureSpec.makeMeasureSpec(getWidth(), MeasureSpec.EXACTLY),
+              MeasureSpec.makeMeasureSpec(getHeight(), MeasureSpec.EXACTLY));
+          layout = getLayout();
+        }
         if (layout != null) {
           CanvasEffectSpan[] drawSpans =
               spanned.getSpans(0, spanned.length(), CanvasEffectSpan.class);