Surviving Control with Gypsy Rose Blanchard

Barely Famous

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4.7 • 5.2K Ratings

🗓️ 13 December 2024

⏱️ 81 minutes

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This week on Barely Famous, Kail sits down with Gypsy Rose Blanchard to discuss her new book, which chronicles her experiences growing up under her mother’s control, enduring Munchausen by proxy abuse, and finding her voice after years of silence. Gypsy gets into her complex family dynamics, her time in prison, and the challenges she faced along the way—from battling addiction to navigating relationships. She also shares profound insights on resilience, redemption, and charting a path forward. Gypsy's Book: https://benbellabooks.com/shop/my- time-to-stand/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/gypsyrose.ig/?hl=en Please support the show by checking out our sponsors! Oak Essentials: Go to oakessentials.com and use the code barelyfamous15 to get 15% off. Fabric: Apply today in just minutes at meetfabric.com/BARELYFAMOUS Qualia: Go to Qualialife.com/FAMOUS for up to 50% off and use code FAMOUS at checkout for an additional 15% off. Posh Peanut: Go to PoshPeanut.com/FAMOUS, and use promo code FAMOUS for 20% off your first order. Rocket Money: Cancel your unwanted subscriptions by going to RocketMoney.com/FAMOUS

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0:00.0	Welcome to the shit show.
0:02.8	Things are going to get weird.
0:04.0	Get weird.
0:04.5	It's your favorite villain, Kail Lowell.
0:06.0	And you're listening to Barely Famous.
0:11.2	All right, Gypsy, thank you for coming on the barely famous podcast.
0:18.1	Thank you for having me.
0:19.1	Of course.
0:19.7	So I read your book cover to cover
0:21.4	in a couple hours. Yeah. And I'm really excited to talk about it. I run an online book club. So this was
0:26.4	right up my alley. You have been in the headlines for probably 10 years now. Does that sound about right?
0:32.3	About right. Yeah. Why now? Why are we writing a book now? Is there a reason?
0:36.7	Well, it's not exactly right now. I've been
0:39.8	working on it for about three years. Okay. The portion that was the final pieces was editing,
0:48.4	and that came after I got released. Okay. So it's been a work in progress for a long time.
0:52.8	It has. And there was some things
0:55.3	in the book that I was surprised to read because, you know, we hear all kinds of things in the media
1:00.9	and people come up with their own theories. But was writing this and sort of going through this
1:05.4	entire process for you, cathartic and sort of like therapy for you? It was. It was challenging at times because I had to
1:13.2	kind of ask for information from family members because like I know I know my side of things,
1:20.0	but I don't know the full picture. So I had to talk to family and to talk to, you know,
1:24.0	friends to get a lot of information that I didn't know about.
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