Gypsy Rose Blanchard has revealed she is switching up her look and going under the knife for a nose job after she dumped her husband, Ryan Scott Anderson, and reunited with her ex-fiancé, Ken Urker.
The 32-year-old Munchausen-by-proxy victim was sentenced to 10 years behind bars for second-degree murder after persuading a former boyfriend to stab her mother to death – but was released early in December last year.
The felon-turned-social media star captured the nation with the heartbreaking story of her life before she revealed she had met Ryan, whom she thought was her true Prince Charming, and admitted she was done with being in the spotlight.
However, Disney-obsessed Gypsy is still searching for her fairytale ending after she separated from Ryan and marked her reunion with her ex-fiancé, Ken, by getting matching tattoos – as she revealed that she was making changes to her love life and appearance by prepping for a nose job.
Gypsy Rose Blanchard has revealed she is switching up her look and going under the knife for a nose job
The felon-turned-social media star’s story captured the nation before she revealed she had met Ryan Scott Anderson, whom she thought was her true Prince Charming (seen in 2024)
Following Gypsy and Ryan’s split, the 32-year-old reunited with her ex, Ken, and the pair even celebrated by getting matching tattoos
Speaking to People, Gypsy revealed she was going through a ‘personal transformation journey.’
She told the outlet: ‘I’m going through a personal transformation journey currently and that includes a physical one, too.’
And despite having previously said she no longer wanted to be ‘famous,’ the 32-year-old seemed to now be ready to step back in front of the cameras.
‘Wish me luck with my surgery and watch the whole thing this summer on Gypsy Rose: Life After Lock Up,’ she said.
Gypsy’s best friend Nadiya Vizier also spoke to the outlet about the 32-year-old’s desire to change her appearance and revealed that it had been a dream of the reality star’s to get a nose job.
‘She said she’s a bit nervous, but she’s happy it’s going to be done. The main thing is that she wanted a more feminine looking nose. She just wants to fix it up and give it a more feminine look,’ Nadiya said.
And according to her close pal, Gypsy just wants be able to live her life.
‘My main message is to just, people need to let her live, let her experience, if they know that she’s doing something good or wrong, let her experience that,’ Nadiya said.
Speaking to People, Gypsy revealed she was going through a ‘personal transformation journey’
Gypsy’s best friend, Nadiya Vizier, also spoke to the outlet about the 32-year-old’s desire to change her appearance and revealed that it had been a dream of the reality star’s to get a nose job (Gypsy seen with her mom as a child)
The news of her Rhinoplasty comes just a week after it was revealed that Gypsy and Ryan had called it quits on their marriage just three months after the bride got out of prison
‘Let her learn from it. I feel like in a way, people are still trying to control her.’
The news of her rhinoplasty comes just a week after it was revealed that Gypsy and Ryan had called it quits on their marriage just three months following her release.
In a Facebook post, Gypsy wrote: ‘People have been asking what is going on in my life. Unfortunately my husband and I are going through a separation and I moved in with my parents home down the bayou.
‘I have the support of my family and friends to help guide me through this. I am learning to listen to my heart. Right now I need time to let myself find… who I am.’
Following their separation, Gypsy reunited with ex-fiancé Ken and celebrated their reunion by getting matching husky tattoos on their arms, seen in photos obtained by TMZ.
However, Ken’s mom Raina Williams told People that Gypsy and Ken were ‘not back together.’
She added: ‘As of right now, there is no plans on a romantic scale.’
Raina noted that Ken was ‘just being a supportive friend to her and that’s it.’
During her time behind bars, Gypsy continuously searched for her soulmate, with a family friend named Fancy Marcelli telling In Touch in 2021 that she had numerous relationships with different men over the years.
Following their separation, Gypsy reunited with her ex-fiancé Ken and celebrated their reunion by getting matching husky tattoos on their arms
However, Ken’s mom Raina Williams told People that Gypsy and Ken were ‘not back together’
She added: ‘As of right now, there is no plans on a romantic scale’ (Gypsy and Ken’s tattoos shown)
‘They attached themselves to Gypsy, and a lot of them just want fame,’ she said. ‘One of the guys was 20 years older… Some of the guys have even gone to the prison to meet Gypsy.’
At the time, the friend said she was ‘concerned’ about Gypsy, and theorized that she ‘just wanted somewhere to go once she gets out of prison.’
In her book Released: Conversations On The Eve Of Freedom, Gypsy recalled how one man named Ken – whose last name has not been revealed for privacy reasons – sent her a letter while she was in prison after he learned about what she had been through from the HBO documentary Mommy Dead and Dearest.
She said they became pen pals and eventually started dating before he popped the question in October 2018.
‘I thought he sounded like a cool guy, so I wrote him back,’ she wrote in the memoir about receiving the first letter from Ken.
‘We became pen pals and started talking on the phone. He was easy to talk to, and we had so much in common.’
Gypsy opened up about kissing Ken for the first time to, and she explained that it happened soon after they started talking during his first visit to her in prison – and was what lead to the start of their romance.
In 2018, she became engaged to a man named Ken (seen together) after they became ‘pen pals’ in prison
Gypsy (seen with her mom) spent her childhood posing as a wheelchair-bound invalid after Claudine ‘Dee Dee’ Blanchard shaved her daughter’s head, pumped her full of drugs
Their ‘inseparable’ bond ended when Gypsy burst free of her warped mom’s control in 2015
The felon described their breakup as her ‘first heartbreak,’ and admitted that it made her fiercely ‘miss her mom.’
‘My first experience with real heartbreak – I didn’t know what to do. The rite of passage of losing my first love happened alone in jail instead of in my bedroom surrounded by girlfriends playing me a breakup mix and eating pints of Ben & Jerry’s like in the movies,’ she continued.
‘It was a time when I missed my mom, a time that should’ve been shared between the two of us, but never would be.’
Family friend Fancy told InTouch about the romance: ‘Ken wasn’t in it for Gypsy – he saw her as a cash cow.
‘She’s had three more relationships with men [following her split from Ken]. We have a lot of concern for her because she doesn’t know the real world.
‘She wasn’t raised in the real world. She doesn’t know how to deal with her trauma.’
The 32-year-old felon spent her childhood posing as a wheelchair-bound invalid after Claudine ‘Dee Dee’ Blanchard shaved her daughter’s head, pumped her full of drugs and convinced the world she was suffering from leukemia and muscular dystrophy.
Their ‘inseparable’ bond ended when Gypsy burst free of her warped mom’s control in 2015 by letting her besotted internet boyfriend Nicholas Godejohn creep into their Springfield, Missouri home to stab 48-year-old Dee Dee to death.
Gypsy was 23 when she was arrested on a second degree murder charge. She is shown in court in 2015
Boyfriend Nicholas Godejohn creep into their Springfield, Missouri home to stab 48-year-old Dee Dee to death (Nick and Gypsy seen in their mugshots)
Gypsy was jailed for 10 years for the matricide but was granted early parole seven years in after friends and family begged authorities to take account of the cruel abuse and needless medical procedures she endured while being cynically paraded at charity events and fundraisers.
Gypsy’s story is one of the more famous examples of Munchausen syndrome by proxy, where a person treats a perfectly healthy dependent, usually a child, as if they have a physical or mental illness.
Dee Dee shaved her daughter’s head to mimic the effects of leukemia, doctored her birth certificate to pretend she was younger and fed her unnecessary medications that caused her to drool and eventually lose her teeth.
She basked in the role of doting caregiver, forcing Gypsy to use a wheelchair and undergo unnecessary surgeries on her eyes and salivary glands while cashing in with charity handouts and perks including a free trip to Disney World.
When doctors in their native Louisiana raised red flags, Dee Dee relocated to Missouri in 2008, where she got a bright pink home built for free, courtesy of Habitat for Humanity, and told everyone that Gypsy’s medical notes were destroyed in Hurricane Katrina.
When Gypsy was 14 a neurologist deduced she was a victim of Munchausen syndrome by proxy, but didn’t feel he had enough evidence to report her mother to authorities.
The former nurse even fooled ex-husband Rod Blanchard, who remained close to his daughter but struggled to get access to her once Dee Dee moved away and constantly made excuses to cancel his visits.
It was only when he witnessed his daughter walk into a courtroom in handcuffs that the shell-shocked dad finally grasped that Gypsy didn’t need a wheelchair.
Dee Dee was found dead on the morning of June 14, 2015, after being knifed 17 times in her sleep by Godejohn, 34, who is serving life in prison without parole.
Gypsy revealed she is now focusing on enjoying a private life with her husband, Ryan, whom she married while she was imprisoned.