Gypsy Rose Blanchard: I WANT TO Reinvent MYSELF

After serving eight years in prison for the murder of her mother, the Munchausen by proxy survivor opens up to In Touch about her new life

Gypsy Rose Blanchard once said she got her first taste of freedom in, ironically, prison. After years of abuse, the Louisiana native pleaded guilty for her involvement in the 2015 stabbing death of her mother, Dee Dee — who had convinced friends, family and even medical professionals that Gypsy was suffering from various ailments, including leukemia, muscular dystrophy, hearing and vision impairment, seizures and asthma — and spent eight-and-a-half years at Missouri’s Chillicothe Correctional Center. (Her ex-boyfriend, Nicholas Godejohn, is serving life in prison for the murder.)

But upon her release on Dec. 28, she finally got to experience what it’s like to truly be free, sharing her first intimate moments with her truelove, husband Ryan Anderson (they wed when she was still behind bars in 2022), trying new things, and learning more about the outside world. “Obviously, I’ve been spending my time with my husband, his family, my dad’s side of the family,” the bubbly 32-year-old exclusively gushed to In Touch during an interview to discuss her Lifetime docuseries, The Prison Confessions of Gypsy Rose Blanchard. “I tried zucchini and ate fried fish for the first time. And I just came back from New York. It was such an amazing trip!” Here, Gypsy Rose opens up about her harrowing childhood, what she learned from prison, and her plans to become a mother.

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