Mia Blanchard Worried About Sister Gypsy Rose's Prison Marriage
On December 28, Gypsy Rose Blanchard was released from Missouri's Chillicothe Correctional Center after eight years for her role in the murder of her mother, Dee Dee Blanchard. Gypsy Rose celebrated her freedom with her family, including her step-sister, Mia Blanchard.
Gypsy Rose's parents, Dee Dee Blanchard and Rod Blanchard, met while he was a 17-year-old high school student. The two dated for a few months before Dee Dee, then 24, became pregnant with Gypsy Rose. They separated in 1991, and Rod remarried a few years later to Kristy Blanchard. The couple have welcomed two children together, Gypsy Rose's step-siblings, Mia and Dylan, per People.
A day after Gypsy Rose, 32, was released from prison she posted a sweet picture of her and Mia together. The sisters wrap their arms around eachother in front of gold balloons that read "Welcome Home." She captioned the post, "Sister Love 💕."
Mia posted the same photo followed by a family pic with Kristy and Rod. Mia penned, "The sweetest hello, welcome home sister🤍."
Gypsy Rose seems to be enjoying everything that comes with life outside of prison, including quality time with her sister. Everything to know about Mia below.
Mia is 22.
Mia was born on June 26, 2001, and raised in Louisiana. She's a decade younger than her half-sis, Gypsy Rose, and is the youngest of Rod's three children. Gypsy Rose and Dee Dee moved out of Louisiana a few years after Mia was born, according to People.
Mia celebrated her 22nd birthday in Lafayette, Louisiana. Mia posted these two pictures to celebrate her bday with the caption "twenty-two."
Her mom, Kristy, commented on the post saying, "Absolutely beautiful. Dad and I did good! We love you."
She is studying nursing at the University of Louisiana.
In 2019, Mia graduated from high school and then became a student at the University of Louisiana. She studying to become a nurse, and even earned her white coat in February 2022.
She shared the moment to her Instagram page with the caption, "have to say, we look pretty good in a white coat 🤍." Kristy commented "So proud of you my girl."
When she's not in class, she's a member of her school's Alpha Delta Pi sorority. She's posted a few glimpses of sorority life to her IG page, from bid day, getting her little, and attending her school's sporting events.
She has a pretty big social media following.
Mia is pretty active on Instagram, she has an impressive 97k followers, (which increases each time I refresh the page!), and occasionally shares pictures from her adventures, game days at her school, and even some sweet pics with her boyfriend.
She has a brother.
Mia has a brother, Dylan, who appears in this family picture from December 2020. The siblings are sitting on a step with their parents, Rod and Kristy sitting on the steps behind them.
"happy holidays🎅🏻," she wrote.
A few years ago, she posted a story of her hugging Dylan while on a boat. "Boat days are our fave," she wrote on the pic.
Dylan is the middle of the three Blanchard children, but doesn't seem to have much of a social media presence.
She advocated for Gypsy Rose's release.
In the Lifetime documentary The Prison Confessions of Gypsy Rose Blanchard, Mia discussed Gypsy Rose's sentence and said "I always thought that 10 years was too long," and that "She deserved to be in jail but she also deserved to get help," per People.
Mia also shared that "I feel sorry Gypsy Rose didn’t get the life that I got to live." She explained, "I got to grow up with a loving father and a loving mother, I got to grow up going to school with my friends, hanging out with my friends, learning to do all these things and she never had that. That was taken away from her by her mother," according to People.
Mia believes her sister deserved jail time, but is "proud" of her "growth."
While she believes there's a lot of work ahead for Gypsy Rose to overcome her trauma, and that she deserved to serve time for her part in the murder of her mother, Mia said in the Lifetime documentary that "She's made a lot of mistakes but she's learning," and that "she's growing into a beautiful woman that can own up to her stuff when she needs to." She added, "I am very proud of her," per People.
She wanted Gypsy Rose to wait to get married.
Gypsy Rose married hubby Ryan Anderson in 2022 while she was in prison. In this bonus scene from The Prison Confessions of Gypsy Rose Blanchard, Mia shared,"I kind of wish she would have just waited so she can live at home with mom and dad. It would be easier for family time." She explained, "It would be easier to create that bond with her that we were both robbed of, me and my brother. And it's just not going to be the same as if she would have been living at home."
Rod and Kristy agreed with their daughter. Rod admits that it's not what they were "hoping for" but they just want Gypsy Rose to be happy.
She was worried Gypsy's marriage would end in a divorce.
In the The Prison Confessions of Gypsy Rose Blanchard Mia shared that she wasn't too sure about her sister getting married. "She doesn't know what it's like to live with a man and I'm just worried it'll end in divorce. I don't want to make her feel like I don't support her or that she's still being controlled, but I never met him," per People.
Once she met Ryan, she said the conversation they had put her "at ease," but that didn't stop her from worrying about Gypsy Rose getting married so quickly. "I’m not going to keep from doing anything, I want her to live," she explained in the documentary. "But she has a whole life to experience, a whole life to live," People reported.
It's clear Mia loves Gypsy and only wants the best for her big sis!
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