Instead of getting to live the life of a healthy girl and teen (which she technically was), Gypsy used a feeding tube and a wheelchair at the instructions of her mother, and got multiple unnecessary surgeries. In the new Hulu television series “The Act,” a horrifying mother-daughter dynamic is examined - and the most disturbing part is the fact that it's based on a true story. It follows the events leading up to the murder of Clauddine “Dee Dee” Blanchard, who was killed by her own daughter Gypsy Rose and her online boyfriend after Dee Dee allegedly forced Gypsy to pretend to be sick and disabled in a suspected case of Munchausen by proxy.
