Biography - Gypsy Rose Blanchard

Who is Gypsy Rose Blanchard?

Gypsy Rose Blanchard is an American national and is infamous for committing the second-degree murder of her mother Dee Dee Blanchard. Through her mother, she is a victim of Munchausen syndrome by proxy.

Gypsy Rose Blanchard – Age, Parents, Siblings

Gypsy Rose Blanchard was born on July 27, 1991, in Golden Meadow, Louisiana, USA. Her full name is Gypsy-Rose Alcida Blanchard, her mother’s name is Clauddine "Dee Dee" Blanchard and her father’s name is Rod Blanchard. At the time of her birth, her father was 18 years old while her mother was 24 years old. Her parents separated before her birth and Rob remarried to Laura.

She is the only child of her parents and has no siblings. However, she has two half-siblings from her father’s subsequent marriage – half-sister Mia and half-brother Dylan.

Education, Ethnicity

Blanchard seems to have stopped going to school after the second grade or even after kindergarten due to her “health issues.” Her mother claimed to homeschool her while Gypsy Rose Blanchard alleged that she learned to read on her own from the Harry Potter books.

Her ethnicity is Caucasian.

Gypsy Rose Blanchard – Boyfriend, Husband, Children Divorce

Blanchard met Nicholas Godejohn via the internet - on a Christian singles website and began a romantic relationship with him. At the time Godejohn, who is on the autism spectrum, had a criminal record for indecent exposure and a history of mental illness.

They met for the first time in 2015 at a movie theater. Since Blanchard’s mother, who accompanied her to the movies, forbade her to have any relationships, the couple pretended to meet there for the first time.

After being convicted for the murder of Clauddine "Dee Dee" Blanchard, Gypsy Rose Blanchard’s boyfriend Godejohn was sentenced to life in prison for first-degree murder while Gypsy was imprisoned for 10 years for second-degree murder.

While in prison, Blanchard met a man named Ken Urker via a pen pal program. They got engaged but she and her fiancé eventually ended their relationship.

In July 2022, Gypsy Rose Blanchard got married to Louisiana teacher Ryan Anderson in a prison ceremony. After being released on parole on December 28, 2023, she and her husband were publicly seen together. However, just months after release, in April 2024, she filed for divorce from her estranged husband. They did not have any children together.

Gypsy Rose Blanchard – Childhood, Abuse

Gypsy Rose Blanchard’s mother Clauddine "Dee Dee" Blanchard suffered from a mental illness called Munchausen syndrome by proxy. In this form of child abuse, the caretaker makes up fake symptoms or causes real symptoms to make it look like the child is suffering from disease.

Gypsy began being her mother’s victim when she was an infant. At three months old, her mother was convinced that she had sleep apnea and was taken to the hospital but infant Gypsy Rose Blanchard was discharged after monitoring.

Her mother claimed that she had muscular dystrophy and made her use a walker. After a minor motorcycle accident when Gypsy was 7 or 8 years old, which resulted in a minor knee abrasion, Dee Dee made her use a wheelchair.

Dee Dee, also made fake birth certificates of Gypsy so that she would seem younger than she actually was. Dee Dee also shaved Gypsy’s head to appear as a chemotherapy patient and hence wore wigs or hats to cover her baldness. She was also fed children's liquid nutrition supplement PediaSure by her mother well into her 20s.

Blanchard also alleged that her mother used physical abuse to control her often using tight hand squeezes or striking with hands or coat hanger.

Gypsy Rose Blanchard was also subjected to unnecessary medical treatments including a feeding tube, oxygen tank.

She was also gaslighted by her mother by saying that she had filed paperwork with the police saying that Gypsy-Rose was mentally incompetent which led her to believe that police would not help her if she ever escaped.

Dee Dee was accused of poisoning Gypsy’s stepmother Laura when they lived together. Her family also alleged that she might have killed her mother Emma Lois Gisclair by starving her.

Gypsy Rose Blanchard – Murder, Conviction, Release

In 2012 Gypsy Rose Blanchard met Nicholas Godejohn on the internet and began a romantic relationship with him. Her partner is on the autism spectrum, and already had a criminal record for indecent exposure and a history of mental illness.

On June 10, 2015, Godejohn came to Springfield and arrived at the Blanchard house. Gypsy Rose gave him duct tape, gloves, and a knife to kill her mother while she stayed in the bathroom and covered her ears. The couple stole more than $4,400 in cash and left Springfield.

Dee Dee was discovered with 17 stab wounds in the back and was asleep at the time of the murder.

After getting caught, Gypsy Rose Blanchard pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and was sentenced to ten years in prison while Godejohn was sentenced to life in prison for first-degree murder.

After serving eight years of her ten-year sentence, Gypsy Rose Blanchard was released on parole on December 28, 2023.

Gypsy Rose Blanchard – Career

After Gypsy Rose Blanchard was released from prison, she announced she would be releasing her e-book, Released: Conversations on The Eve of Freedom in January 2024.

Since her parole, she has given interviews to various news outlets and television programs including CNN, The View, Dr. Phil, Good Morning America, and the podcast The Viall Files.

Despite gathering thousands of followers on social media, she deleted her account in March 2024 as she “did not want to get in trouble.”

Blanchard’s life story has since gained media attention and has been depicted in the HBO documentary film Mommy Dead and Dearest (2017), Hulu’s mini-series The Act (2019), which starred Patricia Arquette, Joey King, Lifetime’s docu-series The Prison Confessions of Gypsy Rose Blanchard (2024).

Gypsy Rose Blanchard – Net Worth, Salary

The figure on the net worth and annual salary of Gypsy Rose Blanchard is under review and will be updated.

Gypsy Rose Blanchard – Instagram, Twitter, Facebook

Blanchard is absent from social media handles Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook.