Gypsy Rose Blanchard, standing 4 feet 11 inches tall, is embracing her move back to her native state of Louisiana, making a move from Missouri following a roller coaster number of years that was exposed in news, tabloids and in her latest Lifetime docuseries.
Blanchard, 33, has been the interest of the public eye since she was a teenager, capturing moments that captivated the nation such as the trial and her pleading guilty to the second-degree murder of her mother.
Now, after her release from prison, Blanchard is again garnering attention for the release of her memoir that she wrote during her time in prison, and her move back to Louisiana where she is hosting meet and greets and book signings.
“I am just a normal person. You don’t get to pick and choose what stories become viral or well known,” Blanchard said, according to NOLA.com. “My memoir is literally my voice, and I get to choose what I talk about, how in depth I want to go with it, and be very vulnerable and share my truth,” Blanchard added.
Blanchard also spoke of her decision to move back to Louisiana.
“Honestly, I missed the landscape … but my mom kept me so sheltered from family, so family wasn’t what was going to bring me back in a sense,” Blanchard said of her move. “I had a feeding tube, so I wasn’t allowed to eat a lot of the Cajun food and everything. So, I appreciate the cuisine,” she says.
Blanchard plans to move to Metairie, where her boyfriend and the father of her future child, Ken Urker lives. She met Urker while in prison as the two formed a relationship as pen pals.
