Gypsy-Rose Blanchard

Killer or Victim or Both? Author: Gypsy-Rose Blanchard The story of Gypsy-Rose Blanchard has created a cultural awareness (and many fictional accounts) of Munchausen by proxy: a syndrome where a caretaker fabricates an illness for the person under their care to get fame or attention. At the age of 23, Gypsy rebelled, conspiring with a secret boyfriend she made online to murder her mother and escape the cycle of abuse. The case led to many allegations (and lots of spinoff media, from Gillian Flynn’s Sharp Objects to the Hulu series “The Act.”) Gypsy claimed that her mother abused her, that her [...]