the extremely manipulative mother: Dee Dee Blanchard.

2015

The Angel of the Glass House: The Ordeal of Gypsy Rose and the Blanchard Crime In a small pink house in Springfield, Missouri, the world believed it was witnessing a daily miracle of maternal love. Dee Dee Blanchard was considered a secular saint, a courageous mother who dedicated every breath to her daughter, Gypsy Rose—a fragile girl confined to a wheelchair, bald, and fed through a tube in her abdomen. But behind those candy-colored walls, there was no home; there was only a prison of flesh and pharmaceuticals.   The Mask of Devotion In this story, terror does not wear the face of a monster, but the reassuring, smiling face of Dee Dee. For years, the woman executed a plan of manipulation so total it defied logic. Through “Munchausen Syndrome... Read More