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Gypsy Rose Blanchard established herself on social media after her release from a Missouri prison.
On Sunday, the 32-year-old posted a selfie to her Instagram account, which has nearly five million followers, showing off her New Orleans Saints jersey with the caption, “Louisiana love. NFL Game Day!” wrote.
In addition to her selfie, Blanchard also posted a video thanking her supporters and promoting her new documentary series “Prison Confessions of Gypsy Rose Blanchard” and her e-book “Released: Conversations on the Eve of Freedom.”
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“Hello everyone, this is Gypsy. “I’m finally free!” she said with a smile. “I just want to send a quick video to thank everyone for the tremendous support I have received on social media. Everyone was really, really nice and supportive. I really appreciate that.”
GYPSY ROSE BLANCHARD, WHO PLANTED THE MURDER OF HER abusive mother, is released from prison
Gypsy Blanchard, now 32, was sentenced to 10 years in prison for second-degree murder in 2016, when she was 24. However, under Missouri law, she was eligible for parole after serving 85% of her sentence. (investigative discovery)
Blanchard had previously shared a selfie on the day of her release on which she wrote: “First selfie of freedom!” The snapshot now has over six million likes.
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Blanchard also shared a picture of herself kissing her husband Ryan Scott Anderson. The couple married in 2022, while Blanchard was still in prison.
Blanchard was released from Chillicothe Correctional Center on Thursday after serving eight years of a 10-year sentence for her role in the conspiracy to murder her mother.
She was convicted of second-degree murder in 2016. She persuaded an online friend to kill her mother, Clauddine “Dee Dee” Blanchard, after she allegedly forced her to pretend she suffered from leukemia, muscular dystrophy and other serious illnesses for years.
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Her mother was found stabbed to death in her home in Springfield, Missouri, in June 2015.
According to experts, years of psychological and physical abuse as well as numerous unnecessary surgeries and medical tests are said to have caused Gypsy to want to kill her mother.
Dee Dee Blanchard, a single mother, was likely suffering from a mental illness called Munchausen syndrome by proxy (MSBP), which occurs when a person tries to cause psychological or physical symptoms in another person, according to health experts.
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Experts believe Blanchard's mother, Claudine “Dee Dee” Blanchard, suffered from Munchausen syndrome by proxy, a mental illness in which one person – in this case Dee Dee – pretends another person – Gypsy – is sick for attention or receiving material things out of pity for the victim. (investigative discovery)
“In the prison where I previously lived with my mother, I couldn’t walk. I couldn't eat. I couldn't have friends. I couldn't go outside and play with friends or anything like that,” Gypsy said during an ABC “20/20” interview in 2018. “Here I feel like I'm freer in prison than when I was in prison I live with my mother. Because now I can just… live like a normal woman.
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Dee Dee convinced Gypsy that she was suffering from a variety of illnesses, including leukemia, and that she was years younger than her actual age. (investigative discovery)
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Blanchard's life story and her mother's murder have captivated many around the world and were made famous by a documentary titled “Mommy Dead and Dearest,” which debuted on HBO in 2017, followed by “The Act,” a Hulu miniseries in 2019 published.