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GYPSY ROSE, NATALIA GRACE AND THE GIRLBOSS-IFICATION OF TRAUMA VICTIMS


THE FAME MACHINE HAS A STRANGE WAY OF PROCESSING OTHER PEOPLE’S NIGHTMARISH
CHILDHOODS

Perspective by Monica Hesse
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January 11, 2024 at 12:16 p.m. EST

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It might have been as early as last week’s People magazine cover featuring Gypsy
Rose Blanchard, but definitely by the time she appeared on Friday’s episode of
“The View” as the hosts awkwardly joked, “murder is wrong,” that I started to
wonder what the hell I was watching.


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A few days before the taping, Gypsy Rose had been still been in prison for her
role in the death of her mother, a grisly crime that obsessed the nation in
2015. The 24-year-old Missourian had been raised to believe she was desperately
sick: leukemia, a degenerative muscular disorder, a surgically inserted feeding
tube. Only later did she realize that all of it — including her rotted teeth,
her bald head and her wheelchair — had been wholly unnecessary. Dee Dee
Blanchard perpetuated a horrifying decades-long hoax, cajoling doctors into
performing procedures that made her healthy daughter into a frail dependent.
Upon learning the truth, and believing she had no other way to escape, Gypsy
Rose conspired with her online boyfriend to kill Dee Dee. He was the one who
wielded the knife; she was the one who posted on Facebook, “That b---- is dead.”


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