I'M READY FOR FREEDOM'

IN A CANDID, REVEALING INTERVIEW, THE 32-YEAR-OLD VICTIM OF MUNCHAUSEN SYNDROME BY PROXY SHARES REGRETS ABOUT THE PASTAND HER HOPES FOR THE FUTURE 

- JANINE RUBENSTEIN

“What’s in a name?” is one of the existential questions that Gypsy Rose Blanchard has had more than eight years to ponder behind bars. When it comes to her own moniker and the inspiration behind it, “I was never told,” she says of the name her mother, Clauddine “Dee Dee” Blanchard, gave her at birth. Was she indeed named after famed 1930s burlesque dancer Gypsy Rose Lee? She can’t be sure. “But I did a little digging into Gypsy Lee’s life,” says Blanchard, 32, of the late star. “Her mother was a stage mom and forced her to become famous. I thought that was quite interesting.”