The star of The Prison Confessions of Gypsy Rose Blanchard has undergone a remarkable transformation.
Blanchard, who was released from prison in December 2023, now looks considerably different than she did when she appeared on the red carpet in New York for the premiere of the show about her jail time.
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Then, she had long brunette hair and wore a black dress, but in another public appearance in LA on May 1 she looked completely different.
At this event, she sported dyed blonde tresses, new dental work and a reconstructed nose via rhinoplasty.
She wore a coral blazer and a matching skirt with a black blouse and a silver multi-strand necklace for the An Evening With Lifetime: Conversations On Controversies FYC Event.
According to a close friend, Blanchard underwent rhinoplasty because she wanted a “more feminine” look, People reported.
Blanchard admitted to helping her boyfriend kill her abusive mother in a case that generated national attention.
She pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in 2016 after confessing that she convinced her boyfriend to stab her mother Dee Dee Blanchard to death as she slept.
Prosecutors sentenced her to 10 years in prison in a plea deal after attorneys uncovered the abuse she experienced at the hands of her mother.
Blanchard was the victim of Munchausen syndrome by proxy, a rare syndrome in which a caregiver fakes, exaggerates or induces illness in a child to gain attention.
Dee Dee was found to have convinced those around her, including doctors, that her daughter was afflicted with leukaemia and muscular dystrophy among other ailments — a subject examined in an HBO documentary called Mommy Dead and Dearest.
Blanchard admitted to being in the house at the time of the murder, knowing her boyfriend, Nicholas Godejohn, was going to stab Dee Dee and doing nothing to stop it, court records show.
Godejohn was convicted of murder and sentenced in 2019 to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
Court filings show he admitted to stabbing Dee Dee and said he only killed her because Gypsy asked him to.
In the days after Dee Dee’s killing, details started to emerge that revealed a complex and unusual situation, with Greene County Sheriff Jim Arnott saying at a June 2015 press conference that “things are not always as they appear.”
“I’ve never encountered anything that is even close to what Gypsy has gone through,” Blanchard’s attorney Michael Stanfield said in the HBO documentary.
Her mother appeared to have taken great steps to keep Gypsy in a very juvenile role, making her act several years younger than her actual age.”
In an interview with People shortly before her release, Blanchard, now 32, said she regretted her role in the killing “every single day.”
“She was a sick woman and unfortunately I wasn’t educated enough to see that,” she said.
“She deserved to be where I am, sitting in prison doing time for criminal behaviour.”
The six-hour Lifetime special, The Prison Confessions of Gypsy Rose Blanchard, featuring interviews with Blanchard from prison, premiered on January 5, 2024.
The case was also the subject of the 2019 Hulu miniseries The Act, starring Patricia Arquette as Dee Dee Blanchard.
After her release, Blanchard deleted her social media accounts in March, but has since reactivated them to share her new look as she endeavours to carve out a new life for herself post-prison.
– with CNN
