The star of The Prison Confessions of Gypsy Rose Blanchard underwent a remarkable transformation.
Blanchard, who was released from prison in December 2023, now looks significantly different than when she appeared on the red carpet in New York for the premiere of the show about her time in prison.
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At the time, she sported long brunette hair and a black dress, but at another public appearance in LA on May 1, she looked completely different.
At this event, she had dyed blonde hair, new dental work and a reconstructed nose through rhinoplasty.
She wore a coral blazer and matching skirt with a black blouse and silver multi-strand necklace to the An Evening With Lifetime: Conversations On Controversies FYC event.
According to a close friend, Blanchard had a rhinoplasty because she wanted a “more feminine” look, People reports.
Blanchard admitted she helped her boyfriend kill her abusive mother in a case that drew national attention.
She pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in 2016 after admitting she convinced her boyfriend to stab her mother Dee Dee Blanchard to death while she slept.
Prosecutors sentenced her to 10 years in prison in a plea deal after lawyers revealed the abuse she suffered at the hands of her mother.
Blanchard was a victim of Munchausen syndrome by proxy, a rare syndrome in which a caregiver fakes, exaggerates or induces an illness in a child to gain attention.
Dee Dee was found to have convinced those around her, including doctors, that her daughter had leukemia and muscular dystrophy, among other ailments, a topic explored in an HBO documentary called Mommy Dead and Dearest.
Blanchard admitted she was in the house at the time of the killing, knowing her boyfriend Nicholas Goddejohn was going to stab Dee Dee and doing nothing to stop him, court records show.
Godejohn was convicted of murder and sentenced in 2019 to life in prison without parole.
Court documents 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 murder, details began to emerge that revealed a complex and unusual situation, with Greene County Sheriff Jim Arnott saying at a press conference in June 2015 that “things are not always what they seem.”
“I’ve never come across anything even close to what Gypsy went through,” Blanchard’s attorney Michael Stanfield said in the HBO documentary.
Her mother seems to have gone to great lengths to keep Gypsy in a very young role, making her several years younger than her actual age.
In an interview with People shortly before she was released, Blanchard, now 32, said she regretted her role in the killing “every 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 jail and doing time for criminal behavior.”
The six-hour Lifetime special, The Prison Confessions of Gypsy Rose Blanchard, featuring interviews with Blanchard from prison, premieres January 5, 2024.
The case was also the subject of the 2019 Hulu miniseries The Act, starring Patricia Arquette as Dee Dee Blanchard.
After his release, Blanchard deleted his social media accounts in March, but has since reactivated them to share his new look as he tries to build a new life for himself after prison.
– with CNN
