Gypsy Rose Blanchard talks about sexuality and experiments with other women in prison: “I am a freak”

Gypsy Rose Blanchard talks about her wild journey to freedom and self-discovery.

In the June 10 episode of her Lifetime docuseries “Gypsy Rose: Life After Lock Up,” the 32-year-old convicted murderer opened up about her insecurities and issues with intimacy. She admitted there was a time when she questioned her sexuality, but never felt comfortable exploring that dimension – until she was locked up for the murder of her mother, Clauddine “Dee Dee” Blanchard.

“A big part of being a woman is learning to come to terms with your sexuality, and for years, that wasn’t the case,” she said, before referring to her now-estranged husband, Ryan Anderson. “I’m insecure because I have scars all over my body and I’ve had a lot of unnecessary surgeries. And so I ask myself, ‘Am I going to be what he wants me to be? Am I attractive to him?'”

Gypsy continued: “I questioned my own sexuality for a long time because as a teenager or young adult I felt I was attracted to girls, and in prison I was able to experiment with that. I think I kissed more girls than boys.”

In 2016, Gypsy was sentenced to ten years in prison for her role in her mother’s murder. She eventually spent seven years in the Chillicothe Correctional Center in Missouri, where she developed serious concerns about her sex drive, or lack thereof.

“I was so scared that I thought I just didn’t like sex,” she recalls. “‘I feel like I have no sexual desire…’ I can cope with that for six months. I thought, what if I’m not a sexual being? And that’s how I discover things about myself. I’m a freak!”