In the midst of taking back her own life, Gypsy Rose Blanchard is making a big change to hear appearance as well.
The famed Munchausen by proxy victim, 32, is prepping to undergo rhinoplasty to change the shape and appearance of her nose.
“I’m going through a personal transformation journey currently and that includes a physical one, too,” she says in an exclusive statement. “Wish me luck with my surgery and watch the whole thing this summer on Gypsy Rose: Life After Lock Up.”
According to Blanchard’s close friend Nadiya Vizier, the procedure is something she has been wanting for a while. “She said she’s a bit nervous, but she’s happy it’s going to be done,” Vizier tells PEOPLE. “The main thing is that she wanted a more feminine looking nose. She just wants to fix it up and give it a more feminine look.”
Her friend also noted, “My main message is to just, people need to let her live, let her experience, if they know that she’s doing something good or wrong, let her experience that. Let her learn from it. I feel like in a way, people are still trying to control her.”
The procedure is scheduled for April 5 in Lafayette, La., comes a week after it was revealed that Blanchard is currently separated from husband of nearly two years, Ryan Anderson, who is featured in the upcoming docuseries.
In the wake of the recent split, Blanchard has been spotted spending time with her ex-fiancé Ken Urker, who joined her in getting matching tattoos earlier this week. The former inmate also admitted more than 250 men had asked her out while in prison.
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“They’re very cool,” Urker’s mother Raina Williams told PEOPLE of the pair, after confirming they’d reconnected following Blanchard and Anderson’s split. “Ken is just being a supportive friend to her.”
In the 2024 Lifetime docuseries, The Prison Confessions of Gypsy Rose Blanchard, she noted that she was still in contact with Urker in the weeks leading up to her 2022 wedding with Anderson. She also admitted she still had feelings for him.
During a phone conversation, Blanchard reveals that she had a dream that she left Anderson for Urker, causing a major fight.
“People have been asking what is going on in my life. Unfortunately my husband and I are going through a separation and I moved in with my parents home down the bayou. I have the support of my family and friends to help guide me through this. I am learning to listen to my heart. Right now I need time to let myself find… who I am,” she wrote in a statement obtained by What’s Trending from her private Facebook account.
Blanchard was released in December of 2023 after serving eight years of her 10-year prison sentence for conspiring to murder her mother, Dee Dee Blanchard, with her then-boyfriend, Nicholas Godejohn.
“I’m ready to expand, and I think that goes for every facet of my life,” she previously told PEOPLE in an exclusive interview just before her release.
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While on trial for her mother’s murder she testified that from childhood into her teens she suffered through numerous unnecessary surgeries, orchestrated by her mother who’d misled doctors to believe her daughter had varied ailments.
As for her recovery, “she’s going to be resting for about two weeks,” says Vizier.
