My Time to Stand

Gypsy-Rose Blanchard served 8 years of a 10-year sentence for the second-degree murder of her mother, Clauddine Blanchard, and was released from Missouri' s Chillicothe Correctional Center at the end of 2023. From birth to age 23,   Gypsy  was the victim of incomprehensible emotional, physical, and medical abuse at the hands of her mother, who is suspected to have suffered from Munchausen syndrome by proxy— a rare psychological disorder marked by attention-seeking behavior of a primary caregiver (most often the mother) through those who are in their care.

Michele Matrisciani is a New York Times bestselling editor, who founded Bookchic LLC, where she collaborates and consults on all aspects of writing and publishing. She is the coauthor of Whole: A Guide to Self-Repair and a Pushcart Prize nominee for her personal essay, “ The Case for the Second Mom. ”

Melissa Moore is the Emmy-nominated executive producer of Lifetime’ s The Prison Confessions of Gypsy Rose Blanchard and Monster in My Family. Moore is the author of Shattered Silence: The Untold Story of a Serial Killer’ s Daughter and Whole: A Guide to Self-Repair.