Gypsy-Rose Blanchard arrived in Los Angeles from New Orleans last Tuesday and promptly headed to the beach, slipping her petite 4ft11in frame into a pink bikini for a day by the ocean. The 34-year-old former inmate, who commands 10.3 million followers on social media, shared her excitement in an Instagram video posted on Saturday. 'I am on the beach in Santa Monica, and I am enjoying the amazing weather,' she said, adding, 'The waves are rolling in and the sun is shining.'
In March, Blanchard claimed she shed 35 pounds without resorting to trendy GLP-1 agonist drugs like Ozempic, attributing the loss to 'lifestyle changes' in the two and a half years since her release from Chillicothe Correctional Center. She demonstrated her transformation by stepping on a scale that read 108.2lbs in a now-deleted post. 'I don't follow a workout routine (though I'd love one), I don't limit my diet, and I don't use GLP-1,' she stated. 'I wasn't actively trying to lose weight... my whole life just changed and adjusted to freedom.'
Blanchard, who also underwent rhinoplasty and extensive dental surgery in 2024, showed off her back tattoo as she ran toward the shoreline to dip her toes in the 'freezing' Pacific Ocean. 'I didn't even bring a towel so, yeah, the sun is going to have to dry me off,' the aspiring podcaster remarked. 'It's cold! I don't know if I'm ready for this!'
Some commenters speculated about an extra belly button, but it is actually a stoma scar from her days with a feeding tube. The Louisiana native is visiting influencer-favored spots across the city, including the Paul Smith pink wall, the Beverly Hills fountain, Sunset Tower Hotel, and Erewhon, where she sampled Hailey Bieber and Sabrina Carpenter's smoothies.
Blanchard also filmed collaborations with content creators TyBott and Alexis Oakley, though neither reposted her content. On May 1, she and her fiancé Ken Urker celebrated their second anniversary of dating and are parents to 17-month-old daughter Aurora Raina Urker. She rekindled her on-off romance with the 33-year-old bartender in March 2024, ending her 20-month marriage to ex-husband Ryan Scott Anderson.
The Life After Lock Up alum served eight years of a decade-long sentence for the second-degree murder of her abusive mother, Clauddine 'Dee Dee' Blanchard, at age 48. In 2015, she provided her online ex-boyfriend Nicholas Godejohn, who has an IQ of 82, with duct tape, gloves, and a knife to stab Dee Dee 17 times in the back while she slept. The pair stole $4,400 in cash and mailed the murder weapon to Godejohn's home in Wisconsin before fleeing by bus. Godejohn remains incarcerated at Missouri's Potosi Correctional Center, serving life without parole plus 25 years for armed criminal action.
The murder, attributed to Dee Dee's undiagnosed Munchausen syndrome by proxy, inspired Hulu's series The Act and Lifetime's Love You to Death, both released in 2019. In December, Into the Weeds obtained over 100 previously unseen video calls between Blanchard and Godejohn through a freedom of information request. In one 2015 call, Blanchard, using her alter ego Demona, discussed plans for future children: 'If we have a boy first, we're going to protect him... They can't know about you being a vampire... If we have a girl she has to lose her virginity to you because you are the master of the household.'
