who recruited her former boyfriend to kill her mother after years of being forced to pretend she was gravely ill, announced Tuesday that she is pregnant and hopes to give her child everything she lacked growing up. Blanchard said that the baby is due in January, which will be just a little over a year after from a women's prison northeast of Kansas City, Missouri. “I just want to be a good mother for my child," she said, her voice catching.
"I want to be everything my mother wasn’t.” Blanchard’s case sparked national tabloid interest after reports emerged that her mother, Clauddine “Dee Dee” Blanchard, who was slain in 2015, had essentially kept her daughter prisoner, forcing her to use a wheelchair and feeding tube. Dee Dee Blanchard duped doctors into doing unnecessary procedures by telling them that her daughter’s medical records had been lost in Hurricane Katrina, Gypsy Rose Blanchard's attorney said.
The attorney said the mother had Munchausen syndrome by proxy, a psychological disorder in which parents or caregivers seek sympathy through the exaggerated or made-up illnesses of their children. The mother-daughter duo received charitable donations, and even a home near Springfield, Missouri, from Habitat for Humanity. When Gypsy Rose Blanchard turned 23, she supplied a knife to her then-boyfriend, and hid in a bathroom while he repeatedly stabbed her mother, according to the probable cause statement.
Then Gypsy and Nicholas Godejohn, whom she met on a Christ.
