Ryan Anderson began writing to Gypsy Rose Blanchard in prison while she served time for second-degree murder. Here's everything to know about the couple who got married in 2022.
Watch: Gypsy Rose Blanchard Defends Husband From ‘Haters’
Gypsy Rose Blanchard is getting her happily ever after.
Following her release from prison Dec. 28 for second-degree murder, the Louisiana native has been starting her new life with husband Ryan Anderson, who she married in 2022 while behind bars.
The pair celebrated New Year's Eve watching the New Orleans Saints football game and spending time with her dad Rod Blanchard and stepmom Kristy Blanchard. "We're looking to ring in the New Year together," Gypsy said in a Dec. 31 TikTok video, "and it's going to be really awesome to have some family time after so long."
Seven years, in fact. Gypsy, now 32, has been serving time at the Chillicothe Correctional Center in Missouri for her role in the 2015 murder of her mom Clauddine "Dee Dee" Blanchard. After plotting to kill her mom with then-boyfriend Nicholas Godejohn, Gypsy testified that Dee Dee had medically abused her by forcing her to use a wheelchair, undergo unnecessary medical treatments and lie about having serious illnesses as part of Dee Dee's alleged Munchausen syndrome by proxy.
While she was in prison, Ryan, a middle school special education teacher also from Louisiana, began writing letters to her, which sparked their romance.
Now that Gypsy is free, she and Ryan are planning their next chapter—including how to handle the public attention on them.
"Ryan, don't listen to the haters," Gypsy wrote under one of his Instagram posts Jan. 2. "I love you, and you love me. We do not owe anyone anything. Our family is who matters. If you get likes and good comments great, if you get hate then whatever because THEY DON'T MATTER. I love you."
She then included a NSFW reference to their sex lives, writing, "Besides they jealous because you are rocking my world every night…yeah I said it, the D is fire happy wife happy life."
Ryan is brushing off the critics, too. "Who said I gave a damn about what these jealous people say anyway, haha," he wrote. "now come get it Baby..."