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Gypsy Rose Blanchard got ready for the summer with a new bikini photo shoot.
The Gypsy Rose: Life After Lock Up star, 34, shared a photo of herself wearing a pink bikini top and jean shorts during a beach outing in Santa Monica, California, on Saturday, May 30. In another slide from her Instagram carousel, Blanchard watched as waves serenely crashed along the California shoreline.
Blanchard has been open about losing weight since her release from prison in December 2023. (Gypsy served just over eight years of a 10-year sentence in prison for her involvement in the 2015 murder of her mother, Dee Dee Blanchard. She completed parole in June 2025.)
After welcoming her daughter Aurora with boyfriend Ken Urker in December 2024, she revealed on her reality series, Gypsy Rose: Life After Lockup, that she’d lost around 25lbs.
“I’ve seen a lot of comments of people asking how I lost the weight so my weight loss journey started once getting out of prison … when I started eating healthier instead of prison food, the weight begin to fall off,” Gypsy explained on the Lifetime show. “I started eating twice a day and smaller portions.”
More recently, Gypsy confirmed that she never actually planned to lose weight and had not used GLP-1 medications to slim down.
“OK, y’all, I’m not gatekeeping. My weight loss came from life circumstances,” Blanchard wrote via Instagram on March 4. “After being released two years ago, my lifestyle changed a lot — from commissary junk food to home-cooked meals and trying new foods.”
The now-deleted post showed her stepping onto a scale that read 108.2lbs and later showcased her flat stomach in a blue crop top.
“I don’t follow a workout routine (though I’d love one), I don’t limit my diet and I don’t use GLP-1,” she mentioned. “I wasn’t actively trying to lose weight … my whole life just changed and adjusted to freedom.”
Earlier this week, Gypsy weighed in on the social media debate over Netflix’s true crime documentary The Crash, which explores whether Ohio teen Mackenzie Shirilla deliberately killed her boyfriend, Dominic Russo, and their friend Davion Flanagan by crashing her car into a brick wall in 2022.
Shirilla, now 21, has always denied that she intentionally crashed the car, with her lawyers blaming the incident on a blackout caused by postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS). (Per Mayo Clinic, POTS is a nervous system disorder that can cause dizziness, fainting and extensive fatigue.)
Shirilla was convicted during a 2023 bench trial of 12 felony charges, including murder, and ordered to serve two concurrent sentences of 15 years to life imprisonment. She is serving her sentence at the Ohio Reformatory for Women prison in Marysville, Ohio.
On the Thursday, May 28, “TMZ Podcast” episode, Gypsy predicted that Shirilla will not get “early parole” because she has not shown sufficient remorse.
“Most importantly, [you have to show] remorse,” Gypsy argued. “And family. So, if the victim’s family writes against her parole, she will automatically be denied. I’ve seen it happen time and time again with different women [who were] in my prison. They prioritize the victim’s family above everything.”
Shirilla will be eligible for parole in October 2037.
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