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Gypsy Rose Blanchard Shares First Selfie After Being Freed From Prison
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Gypsy Rose Blanchard took to Instagram Friday to share her first selfie since being released from a Missouri prison on Thursday.
First selfie of freedom! she captioned the photo, in which she can be seen smiling into a hotel room mirror with luggage and a case of Dr. Pepper in the frame.
Blanchard, 32, was released on parole from the Chillicothe Correctional Center at around 3:30 a.m. Thursday after serving eight years of a 10-year sentence for her role in plotting the murder of her mother, Dee Dee Blanchard.
Blanchard’s defense attorneys argued that she was a victim of abuse, and that her mother had Munchausen syndrome by proxy. Her mother subjected her to unnecessary medical treatments, including surgeries, in order to gain attention, sympathy and donations.
Blanchard was forced to pretend she required a wheelchair, among other things, and eventually rebelled, enlisting her then-boyfriend Nick Godejohn to kill her mother. Godejohn was sentenced to life in prison.
Now free, Blanchard is set to release an ebook about her experience through Penguin Random House on Jan. 9. The book, titled Released: Conversations on the Eve of Freedom, will feature Gypsys contemplative writing on trust and betrayal, love and freedom, self-worth and identity, prison life, her marriage, and other personal issues, according to a press release.
Gypsy saw her story told by others again and again in the media, from news reports and podcasts to TV series like The Act (Hulu). Now, granted early parole and preparing to start a new life, shes free to speak directly to her supporters and the world, the press release stated.
In 2022, while still incarcerated, Blanchard married Ryan Scott Anderson, a 37-year-old teacher in Louisiana. He picked her up from prison Thursday.
TMX contributed to this article.
