Gypsy Rose Blanchard’s Dramatic Hair Transformation After Wigs Revelation

Gypsy Rose Blanchard had fans doing a double take Wednesday after revealing her natural hair on social media – and admitting she usually wears a wig.

In an Instagram Stories post, the 34-year-old, who served eight years of a 10-year prison sentence for assisting in the murder of her mother, shared a photo of herself with short hair.

Above the photo, she added text reading, ‘Why do you wear wigs?’

At the bottom of the post, she answered: ‘This is my real natural hair. I had to cut it really short because nearly two years of bleaching completely fried it.’

Blanchard continued: ‘I don’t feel comfortable with short hair, so I normally wear a high-quality wig while my real hair grows back healthy. I’m giving my hair a fresh start so it can grow long again.’

The shocking reveal comes after she stunned fans with an entirely new look in May following a 25lb weight loss.

The TV personality shared a snap showing her slimmed-down frame while posing cheerfully with partner Ken Urker.

She dressed for the warmer weather in denim shorts and a black leather top with a plunging neckline, celebrating her post-baby glow after welcoming daughter Aurora last December. 

A follow-up mirror selfie showed her toned figure in a sleeveless white vest, jeans, and black booties.

Blanchard, who previously denied using weight-loss medications like Ozempic or Mounjaro, captioned her post: ‘My 25lbs weight loss.’

In January, the Munchausen by proxy survivor insisted her figure was the result of her focus on ‘getting fit by doing yoga and other exercises to help tone’ her stomach.

‘I bought small gym equipment for my home to start getting healthy,’ she revealed on Instagram. ‘I never have used weight loss drugs to lose weight. I was blessed with a healthy pregnancy and gained very little during my pregnancy.’

Blanchard welcomed her daughter with Ken Urker on December 28 – exactly one year after she was released from prison.

She spent her childhood posing as a wheelchair-bound invalid after mom Claudine ‘Dee Dee’ Blanchard shaved her head, pumped her full of drugs, and convinced the world she was suffering from leukemia and muscular dystrophy.

Their ‘inseparable’ bond ended when Gypsy burst free of her warped mom’s control in 2015 by letting her besotted internet boyfriend, Nicholas Godejohn, creep into their Springfield, Missouri, home to stab 48-year-old Dee Dee to death.

She ultimately plead guilty to second-degree murder and spent nearly a decade locked up before she was granted early parole and released in December 2023.

While in prison, she bonded with Ken after he sent her a letter; they started corresponding and things soon turned romantic, with him proposing in 2018.

But after the Hulu show The Act – which starred Joey King as Gypsy and Patricia Arquette as her mother – premiered a few months later and put an intense spotlight on Gypsy’s story, she admitted in her memoir that Ken couldn’t handle all the sudden attention.

They ultimately split and she moved on with Ryan Scott Anderson, and they wed in July 2022.

Ryan was by her side when she was freed – but just three months later, news hit the web that they had split.

Soon after, it was reported that Gypsy had reconciled with her ex, Ken; she then revealed that they were expecting in July.

In a YouTube video at the time, Gypsy spoke about how her horrific upbringing would affect her outlook on motherhood.

‘All the things that I wanted in a mother, I want to give to this baby,’ she stated. ‘I just want to be a good mother to my child, I want to be everything my mother wasn’t.’

Gypsy previously revealed the ‘backstory’ behind her baby’s name during an interview with People last year. 

‘Ken came up with that. There’s a whole backstory to it,’ she dished. ‘Some people think that it’s because of the Disney Princess.

‘Some people think that it’s because Kristy’s dog is named Aurora Grace,’ she said of her step-mother, adding: ‘It’s not because of that.’

Instead, Aurora was selected because of the couple’s shared love of the Northern Lights. 

‘Back whenever Ken and I were together seven years ago, both of us have a fascination with the Northern Lights, and the proper term is the Aurora Borealis,’ she said recalling her time dating Urker while imprisoned.

‘I think it was maybe in 2018, we wrote each other’s future kid’s name on pieces of paper and Aurora is what we both picked without even knowing each other was picking it.’

Gypsy talked to A&E True Crime in March and opened up about how motherhood has changed her. 

‘It’s made me a lot more mature. It’s made me really have to analyze my priorities,’ she explained. 

‘Coming out of prison, I wanted to do this and go there and have this experience and that experience and be very carefree. I was to the wind, acting on emotion and impulse.’

She added, ‘But I have a child now. And so, I’m a lot more mindful about my decisions in life because they affect her as well.’

In regards to becoming a parent, Blanchard said it has made her look back at her own upbringing – some of it being ‘negative.’ 

The TV personality expressed, ‘I wish I could say that I can relate to my mom. I wish I could give you that answer, that I see her point of view now. 

‘But that’s just not it. It just isn’t. If anything, I see that I’m more lost in the questions that I have. I just don’t have the mindset that my mom did, to relate to her.’