What better way to celebrate your freedom than sipping some sparkling bubbly!
Gypsy Rose Blanchard posted some new photos to TikTok on Friday, showing the now 32-year old having some fun at a ‘welcome home’ party with her family.
Getting a new lease on life after being released form prison last week, Blanchard looked happy as she celebrated with her husband and family.
Several photos in the carousel show Gypsy with her father, Rod Blanchard and his wife, Kristy. Gypsy’s stepmother matched her, also wearing beige. Her stepsister Mia Blanchard could also be seen posing with her in a set of photos while wearing a white sweater.
A second TikTok video shared a glimpse at some of the festivities.
Gypsy popped a bottle of champagne in front of a large dining table as confetti rained down on her and her guests. Her husband Ryan could be seen opening a bottle by her side.
Earlier in the day, Gypsy shared her first photo since her release on Instagram. In the snap, she wore a white and blue ombre sweater with her hair in a side ponytail and her hand on her hip. The shot featured open suitcases filled with clothes and toiletries.
“First selfie of freedom!” she captioned the picture.
Several commenters under the post voiced their support, including Jennifer Turpin, who escaped parental abuse in 2018 along with her 12 siblings. “Awesome! Looking fab!😁❤️❤️❤️,” Turpin wrote.
Gypsy ended up serving 8 years behind bars after pleading guilty to the second-degree murder of her mother, Dee Dee Blanchard.
Nicholas “Nick” Godejohn, her boyfriend at the time and the person she plotted the murder with, was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to life in prison.
Gypsy’s mother had subjected her to unnecessary medical treatment and convinced her daughter along with others that Gypsy had a long list of illnesses as a child.
In court, it was argued Gypsy was a victim of Munchausen syndrome by proxy.
Gypsy revealed in an exclusive interview before her release, “I would change the past if I could. If I had another chance to redo everything, I don’t know if I would go back to when I was a child and tell my aunts and uncles that I’m not sick and mommy makes me sick, or, if I would travel back to just the point of that conversation with Nick and tell him, ‘You know what, I’m going to go tell the police everything.”
“I kind of struggle with that,” she added. “Nobody will ever hear me say I’m glad she’s dead or I’m proud of what I did. I regret it every single day.”
Gypsy Rose Blanchard married her husband Ryan Scott Anderson while she was still in prison.
Anderson is from Lake Charles, Louisiana, where he works as a middle school special education teacher.
Following her time in prison, Blanchard planned to move to Louisiana, and Anderson joked that was one of the first reasons she decided to speak to him initially.
Anderson and Blanchard first connected in 2020 when the COVID-19 pandemic started. Anderson was working at a hospital at the time, and his clientele dropped from around 300 to 12 patients.
The Netflix show Tiger King was popular then, and his co-worker told him she wanted to write a letter to the Tiger King subject Joseph “Joe Exotic” Maldonado-Passage. He told her that if she wrote him, he would write Blanchard.
“I said, ‘I’ll tell you what, if you write him, I’ll write Gypsy Rose Blanchard.’ And I had watched her documentary Mommy Dead and Dearest, like three years before that,” he said. “And then The Act had came out and I’ve never watched The Act, but I remember my friends talking about The Act and I was like, I’ll watch the documentary again. So it was kind of fresh on my mind.”
After he sent it, he didn’t expect to hear back, but within a few weeks, in May 2020, he had begun a back-and-forth email exchange with Blanchard, who he said was drawn to how personal he was and the sacrifices he had made for his family including helping his mother raise his nephew.
While not much is known about how they met, Blanchard did previously have correspondence with men outside the prison’s walls through the a pen pal program. She was previously engaged to a man named Ken in 2019, though they eventually split.
Anderson and Blanchard obtained a marriage license in Chillicothe, Missouri, on June 27, 2022, while she was still serving time.
A month later, on July 21, 2022, the two tied the knot in a small prison ceremony with no guests.
