Now a mum herself, Gypsy Rose Blanchard has revealed how she plans to explain to her daughter her part in her own mother's murder.
The now 33-year-old woman was released from Missouri's Chillicothe Correctional Center in 2023 after serving eight years of her 10-year sentence behind bars for her role in the murder of her own mother, Claudine 'Dee Dee' Blanchard.
Dee Dee raised Gypsy Rose to believe she was a terminally ill child, as she forced her to use a wheelchair, shaved her head, and made her take medicine she didn't need for years.
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Dee Dee was stabbed to death in her Missouri home by Nicholas 'Nick' Godejohn after he and Gypsy Rose met online and hatched a plan to kill her together, with the latter letting him into the house.
Gypsy Rose and her fiancé Ken Urker, who she previously dated behind bars, welcomed a baby girl named Aurora a few months back (28 December), and the new mum has been documenting her journey into motherhood on social media since - including by detailing her uber-expensive baby registry list, and sharing a 3D scan of their incoming addition.
And now, speaking in an exclusive interview with the LADbible Media Group, Gypsy Rose has revealed whether she plans to tell her daughter she went to prison for killing Aurora's grandma: "We will tell her at the right time."
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However, the mum-of-one acknowledged that a 'bigger conversation' would need to be had when she finally did tell Aurora of the incident, which took place nearly a decade before she was born in 2015.
"How do you explain to a child?" Gypsy Rose continued. "How do you explain because things come up, whether they're in school class, someone is going to bring it up, and I want to make sure that her family are the ones that talk to her about it before somebody else does."
It's clear there's a lot of anxiety for Gypsy Rose surrounding the inevitable conversation, as she candidly opened up about just how much it's taken a toll on her mental health.
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"After the postpartum hormones, I cried and cried and cried and had that emotional release that this will be something that I have to broach the conversation with," she carried on.
Explaining her strategy for when she does finally 'broach' the conversation, Gypsy Rose explained she'll enlist the help of a child therapist and ask them: "How is the best way to start having these conversations?"
The new mum added that, hopefully with a professional's help, they'll be able to start 'breaking it down', so a child will be able to more easily understand and digest the situation, admitting: "Because it is beyond us as parents."
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Gypsy Rose went on to claim that while there was 'no handbook to parenthood', but that she was following her 'own instincts' a a 'guideline', revealing that a lot of people have asked her if she was worried about 'following suit' with how her mum was with her.
"She's two months old," Gypsy Rose - whose reality TV programme, titled Gypsy Rose: Life After Lock Up, has been renewed for a second season - shared, speaking of Aurora, "so I already see myself making vastly different decisions than [Dee Dee] did and I take pride in that, and I feel like I have a very close knit family that would red flag anything that seemed weird or not appropriate."
And as for her plan for parenthood?
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Well, the reality TV star told us: "I feel like my plan for parenthood is to just love her, care for her basic needs. Just give her all the love that we can. Ken is a great partner, so he's very supportive, we've been just doing the dang thing."
The second season of Gypsy Rose: Life After Lock Up will be available to watch on Sundays from next week (16 March) on Crime+Investigation in the UK.
Interview by journalist Michael Slavin
Topics: Celebrity, Crime, Gypsy Rose Blanchard, Mental Health, Parenting, Reality TV, TV And Film, Tyla Exclusive, US News, True Crime
Rhiannon Ingle