For over two decades, Gypsy Rose Blanchard was a victim of child abuse by her own mother, Dee Dee Blanchard. Gypsy was subjected to abuse not only through physical assault by her mother, but also through medical malpractice. Dee Dee would have Gypsy poked, prodded and even surgically operated on by different doctors. Dee Dee, Gypsy's mother, had a mental disorder called Munchausen syndrome by proxy, which is a rare form of abuse that results in a guardian feigning or forcing illness in their child for attention and sympathy. For years, Gypsy endured it all, until one day she just couldn't take it anymore.

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