Gypsy Rose Blanchard enjoys belated Christmas celebration with husband Ryan and dad Rod and family at Kansas rental home after her release from prison for killing Munchausen-by-proxy mom
Christmas came a few days late for newly released Gypsy Rose Blanchard, but she still managed to celebrate with family and friends.
Her father Rod and stepmother Kristy were both present at a secret safehouse in Kansas City on Thursday evening, less than 24 hours after her release from a Missouri prison, DailyMail.com can reveal.
Munchausen by Proxy victim Gypsy was released Thursday morning after serving seven years for the 2015 murder of her abusive mother Clauddine “Dee Dee” Blanchard.
Her post-captive life began with a night in a budget hotel with husband Ryan Anderson, followed by a trip to Off Broadway Shoe Warehouse – where she posed for DailyMail.com in new sneakers and giggled, “I love them.”
Exclusive photos from DailyMail.com show Gypsy Rose's father Rod Blanchard pulling boxes and wrapping paper out of the garage Thursday after a late Christmas celebration at a Kansas City rental home
Rod and his wife Kristy reunited with Gypsy for the first time since she was released from prison on Thursday after serving a seven-year sentence
Gypsy Rose Blanchard has set up an Instagram account and posted her first post-prison selfie
Gypsy's to-do list includes a book launch, docuseries and tricky tickets to Sunday's Kansas City Chiefs game, where she's hoping for an unlikely meeting with Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce.
But before that, she enjoyed an emotional Christmas reunion with her father and stepmother Rod and Kristy Blanchard on Thursday evening at the rented house in Kansas City where she is staying with teacher Ryan, 36.
A handful of close friends arrived with gifts for their recently released girlfriends, while a TV production crew filmed Gypsy's every move.
Rod and his wife Kristy left the house early Friday morning, presumably on their way back home to Louisiana.
Kristy said last week how much Gypsy was looking forward to Christmas surrounded by family – even if Santa had to wait another three days to visit her.
'We're going to celebrate Christmas. I have a Christmas tree and I have so many gifts for her. I actually went overboard,” Kristy told NewsNation.
“Oh, we're also doing a spa day…we're going to get her pedicure, manicure, facial, haircut, colored if she wants, you know, get the works done, take her groceries. She can't wait.'
The family gathered for an emotional Christmas reunion Thursday evening at the rented home in Kansas City where she is staying with teacher husband Ryan, 36
Rod and his wife Kristy left the house early Friday morning, presumably on their way back home to Louisiana – but not before putting away the wrapping paper and packaging
Last week, relatives told how much the gypsy was looking forward to Christmas surrounded by family
Gypsy (pictured on the right as a child with her father) is seen on the left in a prison photo with father Rod and stepmother Kristy Blanchard
On Friday, Gypsy celebrated her freedom by posting her first selfie after prison on Instagram.
The 32-year-old shared a mirror photo of herself smiling in a blue and white faded sweater and jeans with the caption, “First selfie of freedom!”
In the first hour the image was posted, Blanchard collected more than 160,000 likes and thousands of messages of support.
Blanchard spent her first day of freedom shopping for shoes, purchasing two pairs of sneakers at a nearby mall.
She was seen Thursday leaving a Fairfield Inn & Suites by Marriott in Chillicothe, Missouri, where she had crashed overnight shortly after escaping from prison nearly 12 hours earlier.
Wearing a worn sweatshirt, jeans and only socks on her feet, the ex-con was helped by her husband as she carried her belongings – including two plastic shopping bags full of snacks – to their silver Cadillac sedan, photos obtained by DailyMail.com show to see.
They then drove to a local mall where she purchased two pairs of sneakers.
A handful of close friends arrived with gifts for their recently released girlfriend, while a TV production crew filmed Gypsy's every move
Guests arrive to visit the secret safehouse to visit Gypsy Rose after her release
The couple left the $150-a-night hotel around 11:15 a.m. in a convoy of cars, including producers and a camera crew, following the abuse victim for their Lifetime show.
They had GoPro cameras mounted in the car to capture her reaction.
Gypsy is expected to attend Sunday's Kansas City Chiefs game against the Cincinatti Bengals at Arrowhead Stadium for an unlikely meeting with Taylor Swift.
Hours earlier on Thursday, Ryan Scott Anderson, the teacher she married behind bars last year, was seen driving into the Chillicothe Correctional Center in northern Missouri to pick up his wife at 3:20 a.m.
His Cadillac sedan, with a Bret 'the Hitman' Hart wrestling sticker on the front license plate, showed up minutes later to take Gypsy for her first night of freedom at the budget hotel.
The 32-year-old felon spent her childhood posing as a wheelchair-bound invalid after Claudine 'Dee Dee' Blanchard shaved her daughter's head, pumped her full of drugs and convinced the world she suffered from leukemia and muscular dystrophy.
Gypsy Rose Blanchard's first stop on Thursday was at an Off Broadway shoe warehouse in Liberty, just outside Kansas City, to buy new shoes after leaving prison with socks.
Gypsy was caught in public for the first time since her release from prison after checking out of a Fairfield Inn & Suites by Marriott in Chillicothe, where she spent her first night of freedom
The two spent the rest of the night at a hotel in Chillicothe before checking out later that morning to head to Kansas City
Their “inseparable” bond ended when Gypsy broke free from her twisted mother's control in 2015 by letting her besotted internet boyfriend Nicholas Godejohn sneak into their Springfield, Missouri, home to stab 48-year-old Dee Dee to death.
The gypsy was jailed for 10 years for matricide but was granted parole in September after friends and family begged authorities to take into account the brutal abuse and unnecessary medical procedures she suffered while cynically paraded at charity events and fundraisers.
The network's cameras have already been following her every move as Gypsy enjoys her first few days of freedom, which reportedly include a spa, a day of shopping and a Kansas City Chiefs game on Sunday — where she told TMZ she hopes to run into Taylor Swift and Travis. Kelce.
Fans can look forward to more snippets on social media profiles set up ahead of her release, including a TikTok page – which already has over 400,000 followers – that describes her as a “public figure/speaker” and links to her new eBook, Released: Conversations on the eve of freedom.
Gypsy's media credits and prison interviews already include Dr. Phil, Good Morning America and 20/20, while Hulu, Netflix and Lifetime have all aired TV dramas based on her ordeal.
She participated in the 2017 HBO documentary Mommy Dead and Dearest and has a three-part docuseries, The Prison Confessions of Gypsy Rose Blanchard, airing January 5-7 on Lifetime.