![]() ![]() The thing was, Gypsy didn’t actually have any of these ailments she wasn’t sick at all. As a result, she had to be home-schooled. Her voice was high-pitched and infantilised because, according to Dee Dee, Gypsy also had brain-damage and the mental capacity of seven-year-old. ![]() ![]() Gypsy was thin, pale, bald, her teeth were crumbling and she had a feeding tube. “Ask about her daughter’s diagnoses, and Dee Dee would reel off a list as long as her arm: chromosomal defects, muscular dystrophy, epilepsy, severe asthma, sleep apnea, eye problems,” wrote Dean. Living in a pink bungalow in Springfield, Missouri, Dee Dee was deeply devoted to caring for teenager Gypsy who was wheelchair-bound and fighting cancer. Journalist Michelle Dean wrote a gripping report exploring the unbelievably extraordinary lives of Dee Dee Blanchard and her daughter Gypsy Rose. I was fascinated by this article in 2016. ![]()
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