Gypsy Rose Blanchard Reveals She Has Minor Vision Impairment

Gypsy Rose Blanchard suffered from years of abuse by the hands of her mom, Dee Dee Blanchard, who’s believed to have had Munchausen by proxy.

The 32-year-old, who was launched on parole in December 2023 after serving 85% of her sentence for her involvement in her mom’s homicide, reportedly had a mess of diseases, starting from bronchial asthma and sleep apnea to leukemia and muscular dystrophy.

It was later revealed that Gypsy Rose Blanchard didn’t endure from many of the diseases Dee Dee Blanchard claimed she had, however she did endure from at the least one.

Gypsy Rose Blanchard’s medical issues started when she was a child when Dee Dee Blanchard claimed her daughter had sleep apnea.

Ever since, Dee Dee went on to say she had muscular dystrophy and wanted a wheelchair, in addition to leukemia, bronchial asthma, muscular dystrophy, seizures, imaginative and prescient and listening to impairments, developmental delays, a chromosomal defect, amongst different issues.

It was later revealed that Gypsy didn’t really want a wheelchair and didn’t have lots of the diseases, however she did have one.

Gypsy’s pediatrician, Dr. Rob Steele, was additionally interviewed for the venture. He started seeing Gypsy in 2005 when she was 14 years previous. He claimed that when he was treating her, Dee Dee may “by no means present” her earlier medical information. “If I may have seen [the records] earlier on, I simply assume quite a lot of issues would have been totally different,” he claimed.

The producers behind “The Jail Confessions of Gypsy Rose Blanchard” obtained a few of Gypsy’s never-before-released medical information. As Dr. Steele went via the pile, he was in a position to affirm that Gypsy had strabismus as an toddler, which is when one eye or each surprise, and over time, you go blind.

“You do should have surgical procedure to appropriate the issue,” Dr. Steele stated, which explains the surgical procedure Gypsy had earlier than she was one yr previous – one thing that she claims she had no thought occurred.

She did, nevertheless, admit to having “points in [her] proper eye,” and so she does “know there was an actual downside.”

What this implies is that Gypsy Rose did, in actual fact, endure from minor imaginative and prescient impairment in her eye. Nonetheless, that’s the solely medical prognosis medical professionals could confirm she had.

Shortly after being launched from jail, Gypsy Rose Blanchard sat down with A&E, the place she advocated for different victims of Munchausen by proxy.

“The recommendation that I might give is: Please inform somebody. Even when you don’t assume they may consider you. It doesn’t should be somebody shut,” she stated. “Nonetheless, if there’s simply somebody that you simply belief, even a bit of bit, inform somebody and actually know that you simply’re not alone. There shall be folks that may provide help to out.”

“As a result of I share my story to be a cautionary story. I did issues the improper manner,” Gypsy added.

Following the discharge of “Jail Confessions of Gypsy Rose Blanchard,” Lifetime is able to launch one other docuseries, this time following Gypsy’s journey after being launched on parole.

“Gypsy Rose: Life After Lock Up” will start simply earlier than her jail launch and can proceed via the next weeks and months.

“It was essential to me as a result of once we have been engaged on ‘Jail Confessions,’ I had been so open and trustworthy and uncooked about what jail life was like for me,” she informed The Hollywood Reporter. “And so I used to be sitting in my jail cell on the finish of December, and I used to be like, I’m so uninterested in all these jail labels and all these labels that folks placed on me, and I need to present that I’m greater than that.”

The primary episode of “Gypsy Rose: Life After Lock Up” shall be launched on June 3.