"All smiles.”Īs the kindness poured in, the diagnoses piled on. “Through all the illnesses, she was a trooper," Rod says. Her squeaky voice and childlike demeanor endeared her to everyone she met. I believed I had all these illnesses, except I knew that I could walk and I knew that I could eat."Īt the appearances, usually heavily documented by the media, Gypsy dressed in colorful costumes and wigs. "Ear surgeries, muscle biopsy to find out why my legs didn’t work, a surgery to make me not throw up anymore. I had the feeing tube placement in my tummy, I had multiple eye surgeries on right and left eye," Gypsy adds. "I’ve had my salivary glands removed because my mother said that I drooled. "She also said I had cancer and she would shave off my hair and tell me, 'It's going to fall out anyway so let’s keep it nice and neat.' She said I couldn’t eat and needed a feeding tube, so I had formula through a feeding tube and also received my medication through a feeding tube."ĭee Dee even convinced surgeons to operate on her daughter. "I was paralyzed from the waist down," Gypsy says in the Discovery ID special.
When she turned 5, Dee Dee declared Gypsy could no longer walk, because she had muscular dystrophy and epilepsy. A Munchausen syndrome by proxy diagnosis is attached to the perpetrator, not to the victim, and because Dee Dee is dead, it’s impossible to officially diagnose her.
His ex-wife most likely had Munchausen syndrome by proxy, a condition where a caregiver fabricates health problems of their charges, with the intent to gain sympathy and attention.Īccording to Buzzfeed, if a person fakes their own illnesses, it’s simply Munchausen syndrome, but when the symptoms are feigned or induced in others, it’s called Munchausen by proxy. Little did he know this would be the first of many fake illnesses to plague his daughter. Her father, Rod Blanchard, divorced her mother, Dee Dee, before she was born.ĭespite being a perfectly healthy and "normal" baby girl, Dee Dee insisted Gypsy needed "a heart monitor that she’d have to wear while she slept, because she stopped breathing in her sleep or she’d have seizures in the middle of the night," Rod says in the special. Gypsy was born in Golden Meadow, Louisiana on July 27, 1991.
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