Gypsy Rose Blanchard pregnant soon after release from prison for conspiring to kill abusive mother

FILE - Gypsy Rose Blanchard takes the stand Nov. 15, 2018, in Springfield, Mo., during the trial of her ex-boyfriend, Nicholas Godejohn, who is accused of stabbing Blanchard’s mother, Clauddine “Dee Dee” Blanchard, at her home in June 2015. Blanchard, who recruited her former boyfriend to kill her mother after years of being forced to pretend she was gravely ill, announced Tuesday, July 9, 2024, that she is pregnant and plans to give her child everything she lacked growing up. (Nathan Papes/The Springfield News-Leader via AP, File)