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My Time to Stand
In this revelatory, harrowing, and ultimately hopeful memoir, Gypsy-Rose Blanchard shares the painful realities she grew up with and the details of her life that only she knows.
A victim of her mother’s Munchausen by proxy and child abuse survivor, Gypsy-Rose Blanchard’s unique and controversial case made headlines across the world.
Now, she’s finally free to start living her life on her terms—and to tell her own story as only she can.
Forced to use a wheelchair in public and endure a lifetime of faux illness, fraud, and exploitation, Gypsy was subjected not only to her mother’s medical, physical, and emotional abuse, but deprived of childhood milestones. Prevented from attending school or socializing, Gypsy’s formative years were defined by pain and isolation.
After serving 8 years in prison for the role she played in her mother Dee Dee’s murder, Gypsy is embracing her fresh start—and reminding all of us that it’s never too late.
In this revelatory, harrowing, and ultimately hopeful memoir, Gypsy shares the painful realities she grew up with and the details of her life that only she knows, including:
The abusive cycle that began with Dee Dee’s abuse by her father
Gypsy’s fear that continued unnecessary surgery would leave her truly disabled
How she coped with guilt and accepted responsibility for her mother’s death
Memories of her final days in prison
What she learned upon reviewing her own medical records for the first time
How it felt to finally see her family again as her authentic self
Featuring Blanchard family photos and new facts about Gypsy’s life that she previously kept private, My Time to Stand offers an unprecedented look at the real Gypsy-Rose Blanchard, proudly embarking on her ongoing journey to recovery and self-discovery.
A victim of her mother’s Munchausen by proxy and child abuse survivor, Gypsy-Rose Blanchard’s unique and controversial case made headlines across the world.
Now, she’s finally free to start living her life on her terms—and to tell her own story as only she can.
Forced to use a wheelchair in public and endure a lifetime of faux illness, fraud, and exploitation, Gypsy was subjected not only to her mother’s medical, physical, and emotional abuse, but deprived of childhood milestones. Prevented from attending school or socializing, Gypsy’s formative years were defined by pain and isolation.
After serving 8 years in prison for the role she played in her mother Dee Dee’s murder, Gypsy is embracing her fresh start—and reminding all of us that it’s never too late.
In this revelatory, harrowing, and ultimately hopeful memoir, Gypsy shares the painful realities she grew up with and the details of her life that only she knows, including:
The abusive cycle that began with Dee Dee’s abuse by her father
Gypsy’s fear that continued unnecessary surgery would leave her truly disabled
How she coped with guilt and accepted responsibility for her mother’s death
Memories of her final days in prison
What she learned upon reviewing her own medical records for the first time
How it felt to finally see her family again as her authentic self
Featuring Blanchard family photos and new facts about Gypsy’s life that she previously kept private, My Time to Stand offers an unprecedented look at the real Gypsy-Rose Blanchard, proudly embarking on her ongoing journey to recovery and self-discovery.
264 pages, Hardcover
First published December 10, 2024
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December 4, 2024you all are buying this book to support a legit murderer
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December 4, 2024The majority of these comments are why I DO NOT encourage you to fund Gypsy's life. She has never had a job and everything she has, has been given to her. She thinks she can just lie and grift through life to live. The audacity. She took another kid's wish (a child with cancer who was about to die.) Gypsy and Dee Dee got a free (all expenses paid) to Disney World for 3 WEKS from the Make A Wish Foundation. She knew exactly why her and her mother were lying and doing the things they were doing to con everyone around them. They moved out of state away from everyone and started a new life when doctors started suspecting they were malingering and noting that in her medical records. That was around the time of Katrina. A HELICOPTER picked her up for a ride when Katrina hit because she claimed to be so ill. I couldn't make this up. Just don't support her. She is so selfish and evil. Lord help her child that she may/may not be pregnant with currently.
January 18, 2025
They could never make me hate you Gypsy-Rose!
My Time to Stand follows the true story of Gypsy-Rose and Dee Dee's lives from her grandfather's abuse all the way to the present day. While it isn't a work of literary genius by any means, there is power in Gypsy-Rose finally sharing her story in her own words. This memoir reads like it came from someone who lacked education and social interactions as a child, and I don't mean that as an insult. The quality of the memoir is simply reflective of who Gypsy-Rose is and the events that shaped her.
I'm rating this memoir 3 stars for a few reasons. The first being that there are a handful of line editing mistakes. I noticed multiple occurrences of words being mistyped, flipped with another word in a sentence, or words just completely missing from the sentence. For someone whose case has been very high profile, I expected better in terms of editing.
There is also a distinct lack of details in some parts of the text. In those moments, My Time to Stand felt like I was just rewatching The Act. I hoped that within these pages, readers would be able to really get into Gypsy-Rose's head during critical moments in her life. I wanted to feel wrapped inside her story and become close with it. But it felt more like we were sitting on the couch and she was recounting her narrative to me. This is what I mean when I say My Time to Stand is not literary. If you're hoping for a well-written memoir, this won't be it. That's not to say it isn't worth reading. I simply found myself wanting more from the authors and waiting for that moment when the world around me melted and it became just me and this story.
Ultimately, though, I find My Time to Stand to be a vital memoir in a time when women's medical care is being determined by politicians and millions of us no longer feel as safe around doctors. This is a woman who was failed by the medical system, by the government, the prison system, by her family, neighbors, and above all her mother. She was a child who was left behind and abused for two decades. This is the story of someone who faced power disparities all her life, who was tortured physically and emotionally. In 2025, when we are awaiting the inauguration of a fascist administration that intends to strip women of their rights, imprison children at the border, and silence the voices of the people, My Time to Stand becomes a narrative that's reflective of this country's worst problems and the endangerment many of us face at the hands of our politicians.
And finally, Gypsy-Rose's memoir ends on an uplifting note that leaves the reader feeling satisfied with the conclusion and hopeful for the author's future. I am a GRB empathizer and believe there were many, many times when she was wronged by medical professionals and the government. I hate knowing that this woman was forced to live in jail for eight and a half years. Gypsy-Rose had no business being sent to prison for defending herself against her abuser and frankly I find it disgusting that the law did not do her justice throughout her sentencing. This country has police officers killing innocent people on the street but when a woman has been imprisoned and abused against her will by the one person who is supposed to love her unconditionally makes the hard decision to end that person's life, she is left to rot in solitary confinement. However, Gypsy-Rose seems to feel positively about her future and her freedom, hoping to establish change in the medical industry and prevent other children from suffering from Munchausen by proxy.
For readers looking to find similar books, I would highly recommend Minka Kelly's Tell Me Everything, Jennette McCurdy's I'm Glad My Mom Died, Britney Spears' The Woman In Me, and Paris Hilton's Paris: The Memoir.
(Note to those just reading my review: most of the comments are from when I first added this book to my TBR. My "review" at that time was the very first one posted on this book, and unfortunately it did elicit a little bit of negative attention. Pay those review bombers no mind.)
My Time to Stand follows the true story of Gypsy-Rose and Dee Dee's lives from her grandfather's abuse all the way to the present day. While it isn't a work of literary genius by any means, there is power in Gypsy-Rose finally sharing her story in her own words. This memoir reads like it came from someone who lacked education and social interactions as a child, and I don't mean that as an insult. The quality of the memoir is simply reflective of who Gypsy-Rose is and the events that shaped her.
I'm rating this memoir 3 stars for a few reasons. The first being that there are a handful of line editing mistakes. I noticed multiple occurrences of words being mistyped, flipped with another word in a sentence, or words just completely missing from the sentence. For someone whose case has been very high profile, I expected better in terms of editing.
There is also a distinct lack of details in some parts of the text. In those moments, My Time to Stand felt like I was just rewatching The Act. I hoped that within these pages, readers would be able to really get into Gypsy-Rose's head during critical moments in her life. I wanted to feel wrapped inside her story and become close with it. But it felt more like we were sitting on the couch and she was recounting her narrative to me. This is what I mean when I say My Time to Stand is not literary. If you're hoping for a well-written memoir, this won't be it. That's not to say it isn't worth reading. I simply found myself wanting more from the authors and waiting for that moment when the world around me melted and it became just me and this story.
Ultimately, though, I find My Time to Stand to be a vital memoir in a time when women's medical care is being determined by politicians and millions of us no longer feel as safe around doctors. This is a woman who was failed by the medical system, by the government, the prison system, by her family, neighbors, and above all her mother. She was a child who was left behind and abused for two decades. This is the story of someone who faced power disparities all her life, who was tortured physically and emotionally. In 2025, when we are awaiting the inauguration of a fascist administration that intends to strip women of their rights, imprison children at the border, and silence the voices of the people, My Time to Stand becomes a narrative that's reflective of this country's worst problems and the endangerment many of us face at the hands of our politicians.
And finally, Gypsy-Rose's memoir ends on an uplifting note that leaves the reader feeling satisfied with the conclusion and hopeful for the author's future. I am a GRB empathizer and believe there were many, many times when she was wronged by medical professionals and the government. I hate knowing that this woman was forced to live in jail for eight and a half years. Gypsy-Rose had no business being sent to prison for defending herself against her abuser and frankly I find it disgusting that the law did not do her justice throughout her sentencing. This country has police officers killing innocent people on the street but when a woman has been imprisoned and abused against her will by the one person who is supposed to love her unconditionally makes the hard decision to end that person's life, she is left to rot in solitary confinement. However, Gypsy-Rose seems to feel positively about her future and her freedom, hoping to establish change in the medical industry and prevent other children from suffering from Munchausen by proxy.
For readers looking to find similar books, I would highly recommend Minka Kelly's Tell Me Everything, Jennette McCurdy's I'm Glad My Mom Died, Britney Spears' The Woman In Me, and Paris Hilton's Paris: The Memoir.
(Note to those just reading my review: most of the comments are from when I first added this book to my TBR. My "review" at that time was the very first one posted on this book, and unfortunately it did elicit a little bit of negative attention. Pay those review bombers no mind.)
December 13, 2024
Gypsy-Rose Blanchard has a history of lying. This is something she's openly admitted to in various interviews. She tends to speak of her dishonesty like she's moved beyond it; however, she continues to be caught in lie after lie, most recently in a People magazine article that came out a mere day before this book's release.
Still, I wanted to be fair and actually read her new book before leaving a review. So I read it.
Unsurprisingly, I found that "My Time to Stand" not only contains multiple inconsistencies within its own pages -- Blanchard also contradicts several statements that she's made in the past about her upbringing.
For example, in the book she writes about her mother Dee Dee's aversion to Barbie dolls. Yet in her 2019 interview with Dr. Phil, Blanchard told him (twice) that Dee Dee ordered her to play with her Barbies. Why would she even have Barbies if Dee Dee disliked them so much?
Another example concerns her education. In that same Dr. Phil interview, Blanchard claimed that she never attended school -- not even kindergarten. Meanwhile, a petition for early release circulated by her father, Rod, during her incarceration (which Blanchard was well aware of and encouraged people to share) said that she attended school through second grade. Now, in "My Time to Stand", she states that Dee Dee pulled her out of school right after kindergarten (later in the book, this becomes "around pre-K age"). Which is it?
Then there's the matter of Blanchard's teeth. Her past suggestions and explanations for why the majority of them were extracted range from unnecessary chemotherapy (as somebody who's been on chemo, I can say it's highly unlikely that any doctor ever ordered it for her unless she truly needed it) to Dee Dee plowing her with anti-seizure medication.
In "My Time to Stand", Blanchard blames the medication. Well, until several chapters later -- when she implies that her poor dental health resulted from sucking on a baby bottle until her 20's (indeed this is the most probable contributing factor to the loss of her teeth, perhaps along with her known penchant for sugary soda).
I might sound like I'm nitpicking with these examples. However, Blanchard's memoir includes plenty more contradictions and details that have suddenly changed from what she said in the past. Combined with her self-acknowledged history of lying, it makes it very difficult to trust her accusations against her mother, her grandfather, and her co-defendant, Nick Godejohn.
Godejohn in particular is portrayed as some kind of sadistic caricature in "My Time to Stand". He's no saint in real life; but the hundreds of text messages documenting his relationship with Blanchard show that neither is she. Nor was she ever the innocent submissive that she paints herself as in her memoir.
The new anecdotes revealed in Blanchard's book also stretch credulity. This includes the bit about how, following Blanchard's eye surgery, a hospital let Dee Dee push her daughter out to their car in a borrowed wheelchair (which Dee Dee proceeded to steal) without any staff members present. Come on. A hospital's not going to take that risk.
And the dream Blanchard writes about involving her father and stepmother comes across like 100% pure fiction -- to the extent that I almost felt embarrassed just reading the words.
On top of everything else, Blanchard's memoir simply isn't very well-structured. A chapter where she rambles about her medical records (which seems stuck at random in the middle of two barely-related chapters) feels especially out-of-place.
My opinion is that Blanchard used "My Time to Stand" as a way to address and make excuses for the many valid concerns voiced by her critics. But after reading it, I remain more skeptical than ever of Blanchard's ability to tell the truth.
Still, I wanted to be fair and actually read her new book before leaving a review. So I read it.
Unsurprisingly, I found that "My Time to Stand" not only contains multiple inconsistencies within its own pages -- Blanchard also contradicts several statements that she's made in the past about her upbringing.
For example, in the book she writes about her mother Dee Dee's aversion to Barbie dolls. Yet in her 2019 interview with Dr. Phil, Blanchard told him (twice) that Dee Dee ordered her to play with her Barbies. Why would she even have Barbies if Dee Dee disliked them so much?
Another example concerns her education. In that same Dr. Phil interview, Blanchard claimed that she never attended school -- not even kindergarten. Meanwhile, a petition for early release circulated by her father, Rod, during her incarceration (which Blanchard was well aware of and encouraged people to share) said that she attended school through second grade. Now, in "My Time to Stand", she states that Dee Dee pulled her out of school right after kindergarten (later in the book, this becomes "around pre-K age"). Which is it?
Then there's the matter of Blanchard's teeth. Her past suggestions and explanations for why the majority of them were extracted range from unnecessary chemotherapy (as somebody who's been on chemo, I can say it's highly unlikely that any doctor ever ordered it for her unless she truly needed it) to Dee Dee plowing her with anti-seizure medication.
In "My Time to Stand", Blanchard blames the medication. Well, until several chapters later -- when she implies that her poor dental health resulted from sucking on a baby bottle until her 20's (indeed this is the most probable contributing factor to the loss of her teeth, perhaps along with her known penchant for sugary soda).
I might sound like I'm nitpicking with these examples. However, Blanchard's memoir includes plenty more contradictions and details that have suddenly changed from what she said in the past. Combined with her self-acknowledged history of lying, it makes it very difficult to trust her accusations against her mother, her grandfather, and her co-defendant, Nick Godejohn.
Godejohn in particular is portrayed as some kind of sadistic caricature in "My Time to Stand". He's no saint in real life; but the hundreds of text messages documenting his relationship with Blanchard show that neither is she. Nor was she ever the innocent submissive that she paints herself as in her memoir.
The new anecdotes revealed in Blanchard's book also stretch credulity. This includes the bit about how, following Blanchard's eye surgery, a hospital let Dee Dee push her daughter out to their car in a borrowed wheelchair (which Dee Dee proceeded to steal) without any staff members present. Come on. A hospital's not going to take that risk.
And the dream Blanchard writes about involving her father and stepmother comes across like 100% pure fiction -- to the extent that I almost felt embarrassed just reading the words.
On top of everything else, Blanchard's memoir simply isn't very well-structured. A chapter where she rambles about her medical records (which seems stuck at random in the middle of two barely-related chapters) feels especially out-of-place.
My opinion is that Blanchard used "My Time to Stand" as a way to address and make excuses for the many valid concerns voiced by her critics. But after reading it, I remain more skeptical than ever of Blanchard's ability to tell the truth.
December 12, 2024
Book filled with lies. I don’t support mummy killers who say they’ve been abused when they killed to get some 🍆
December 12, 2024
This is trash about a woman that murdered her mother. Gypsy is a con artist who was working with her mother to scam for years.
December 12, 2024
Where do I start? Nothing new in here really, except maybe a few new lies. I will warn readers that there are explicit details in here. Literally too much information, nasty details. I had second hand embarrassment even reading those parts. I would even call it soft porn.
Her mom literally spoiled Gypsy. She just wanted to give Gypsy everything. She conned people to get her trips, a house, etc., but Gypsy lived a better life than most of us. Towards the end of her mom’s life, she was actually afraid of Gypsy. Her mom was very ill, and Gypsy literally could have just left. She was legally an adult. She did NOT have to plan for two years to have her mom unalived by a man with autism, low IQ, who was collecting a permanent disability check.
When she was arrested and was being interrogated, not once did she mention to the detective that her mom abused her! That would have been the perfect opportunity to tell her story. All she said was that her mom was overprotective. She said she was her best friend. Well, you don’t unalive your best friend.
She has been caught in many lies. She tells so many that she can’t keep track of what she’s said. So , pretty much, this is a complete book of lies. Written in very poor taste.
Her mom literally spoiled Gypsy. She just wanted to give Gypsy everything. She conned people to get her trips, a house, etc., but Gypsy lived a better life than most of us. Towards the end of her mom’s life, she was actually afraid of Gypsy. Her mom was very ill, and Gypsy literally could have just left. She was legally an adult. She did NOT have to plan for two years to have her mom unalived by a man with autism, low IQ, who was collecting a permanent disability check.
When she was arrested and was being interrogated, not once did she mention to the detective that her mom abused her! That would have been the perfect opportunity to tell her story. All she said was that her mom was overprotective. She said she was her best friend. Well, you don’t unalive your best friend.
She has been caught in many lies. She tells so many that she can’t keep track of what she’s said. So , pretty much, this is a complete book of lies. Written in very poor taste.
December 13, 2024
This book is not appropriate for young readers. If you are a victim of DV it can be seriously triggering & traumatic to read. As a DV survivor myself, it was so disturbing to read, I had to take multiple breaks from reading it. I also find it hard to believe that many of the events & scenarios described are even real. Read at your own risk & this book should definitely not be available for young readers to purchase.
December 13, 2024
This book desperately needs trigger warnings. It blows my mind that this got published considering it is essentially soft core porn (which is not what I expected going in). Shame on the editors for allowing misleading and misinformation more broadly into this - gypsy herself admitted to micro deletion but insists her surgeries were unnecessary. However, the ones she describes are consistent with mitigating symptoms of the micro deletion. I wanted to give benefit of the doubt but I did not expect so much emphasis on sex to the point where I felt triggered. Very disappointed with this.
Also, the constant lying in this is horrific. Thank god I didn’t pay for this book (was not willing to give a proven con artist my actual hard earned money).
Also, the constant lying in this is horrific. Thank god I didn’t pay for this book (was not willing to give a proven con artist my actual hard earned money).
December 13, 2024
Do not read it, it’s all lies and fake
Constantly changing the story (truths / facts)
Constantly changing the story (truths / facts)
December 13, 2024
More like “my time to stand up and tell more lies!” Stop giving this girl your hard earned money. She is profiting off of arranging her mother’s murder by manipulating a mentally handicapped guy to do her dirty work. Gypsy herself said in an interview that her mother’s last words to her were “Gypsy don’t hurt me”… that should speak volumes! She was not abused. She has 1q21.1 microdeletions which is a chromosome disorder. The procedures she went through were real and necessary. But she always knew she could walk! Her family admitted they even knew she could walk. Dee Dee and Gypsy were scam artist, and Gypsy is carrying on the legacy by scamming all of you to this day.
December 13, 2024
Total junk. Hours of my life wasted listening to lie after lie. The only reason I even bought it is because my degree is in criminal justice and I am fascinated with the way the mind of a sociopath works. This book gives me the opportunity to take a peep into her mind. There is a part in the book where Gypsy talks about DeeDee’s speech and she says something by to the effect of her mother was a master at manipulating her speech to get exactly what she wanted. I thought how ironic she is saying that while doing exactly that in a book full of lies. Victim blaming is never ok. I have compared her case to that of Lizzie Bordon because she killed her mother and then said horrible things about her to try and justify her behavior. Lizzie Bordon did the same thing. Actually, if I had to choose, I would trust Lizzie Bordon more than I would trust Gypsy behind me. Bordon was EQUITTED. Gypsy plead guilty because she is guilty. Despite being equitted no one wanted anything to do with Bordon in the years following her father and step mother’s murders. Eventually the only person that had stood by her, her sister eventually abandoned her as well. He died a very rich, lonely, old woman. And all we can do is pray for justice, and for me I’ll give it to God. Luke 18:7-8
January 21, 2025
If you've seen the shows and are familiar with Gypsy's story, there isn't much new here. But I do support Gypsy-Rose telling her story in her own words. I see the growth and increasing maturity in her and I wish her all the best in overcoming the past and living a healthy, happy life on her own terms.
December 26, 2024
Well written memoir about difficult to share topics and very human challenges.
December 19, 2024
There are too many inconsistencies, contradictory statements and discrepancies in this book for me to consider it to be non-fiction. For interesting facts, evidence and discussion points, please refer to Becca Scoops videos on YouTube.
December 19, 2024
There are several questions to ask yourself before believing Gypsy Rose Blanchard's story: Why didn't Gypsy tell the police she was abused when she was being interrogated? Shouldn't Gypsy be calling Nick Godejohn a hero for saving her from horrible abuse if true; instead, she threw him under the bus? No doubt, DeeDee was a con artist, but did she really have Munchausen by proxy or was that made up by Gypsy's lawyer because they had no defense? Why hasn’t Gypsy sued her doctors for unnecessary surgeries as she claims? Where is the advocating Gypsy said she was looking forward to doing after being released from prison? Instead, she became a self-proclaimed social media "beauty influencer", left her husband for another man, then got pregnant by said other man (while still married). Gypsy has admitted in an interview that her mother taught her to be a very good liar; how does the reader of her book know if GRB is telling the truth or just a bunch of lies? Gypsy Rose does not sound like a very good person at all.
December 12, 2024
I was intrigued by the authors story and was excited about this book . The inconsistencies between what I had got to know about the case through previous interviews and case details left me feeling confused and disappointed. Especially the narration about the mum and the boyfriend. I did want to finish the book, since I hate not finishing what I begin but this almost made me feel guilty for reading which was a difficult emotion to explain. I do not know the truth and maybe we never will, but this book made me feel it might be unfair to those unable to narrate their own stories . I am still intrigued by this case but struggled with this book and the way it was written . Maybe the author will explain in her next book or interviews and I may return to it . I will have to wait and see. For now, the book came through as defensive, contradictory to what has been stated previously and somehow unfair.
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July 9, 2024The full memoir is finally coming out, yayyyyyy!!!
December 12, 2024
We all have our own truth of our experiences. There was just so much detail about her sexual experiences and relationship with Nick that I never needed to know.
January 7, 2025
✨we listen and we don’t judge✨
Except I listened and I’m JUDGING.
I should probably mark this as “spoilers” but I’m hoping you all read this review so you don’t read this book. This was by far one of the worst books I have ever read.
The writing was so poorly done and edited that it’s almost unbearable. We have 3 authors on this thing and they can’t decide if they want to write this extravagantly, over using similes and metaphors like a fantasy author when world building, or rewriting the same basic sentence 4 times in different ways, like a student trying to hit a word count on an essay. On top of this, we randomly receive a “and y’all XYZ” statement, like I’m sitting with my girlfriends chatting. You cannot switch up the professional informative narration to this and expect me to take you seriously.
We’ve heard time and time again, from Gypsy’s own mouth, that she lies constantly. She is an unreliable narrator. So how is one to believe ANYTHING in this book. In the beginning, she very clearly tells us her “quotes” are from what she can remember or what she believed to happen, immediately setting us up to question the rest of this narrative.
This included stories we’ve heard 100 different times, with “more detail” than before. The “detail” being her overly explaining her sexual encounters (both consensual and non). She contradicted herself MANY times, first telling us how she helped in her mothers murder, and then one chapter later explaining she had nothing to do with it. Hey??? Read what you just wrote and let’s try again please (or don’t actually).
For those you listened to the audiobook or are interested, even more of a no. When Gypsy narrates, you can tell she’s just reading what’s in front of her, no emotion. You can tell some of the stories came from her ghost writers and it’s like the first time she’s seen it is in front of the recording booth. And whoever the recording company was, if you ever leave edits in the recording, like when she repeated the same sentence 3 times, I’m immediately staying away from any other book you’ve published. Get your shit together.
None of this should’ve come as a shock to anyone reading this. Please stay away from this book for your own mental sake. And please don’t give this woman anymore money to do this. And how dare Goodreads not let me rate this less than one star.
Except I listened and I’m JUDGING.
I should probably mark this as “spoilers” but I’m hoping you all read this review so you don’t read this book. This was by far one of the worst books I have ever read.
The writing was so poorly done and edited that it’s almost unbearable. We have 3 authors on this thing and they can’t decide if they want to write this extravagantly, over using similes and metaphors like a fantasy author when world building, or rewriting the same basic sentence 4 times in different ways, like a student trying to hit a word count on an essay. On top of this, we randomly receive a “and y’all XYZ” statement, like I’m sitting with my girlfriends chatting. You cannot switch up the professional informative narration to this and expect me to take you seriously.
We’ve heard time and time again, from Gypsy’s own mouth, that she lies constantly. She is an unreliable narrator. So how is one to believe ANYTHING in this book. In the beginning, she very clearly tells us her “quotes” are from what she can remember or what she believed to happen, immediately setting us up to question the rest of this narrative.
This included stories we’ve heard 100 different times, with “more detail” than before. The “detail” being her overly explaining her sexual encounters (both consensual and non). She contradicted herself MANY times, first telling us how she helped in her mothers murder, and then one chapter later explaining she had nothing to do with it. Hey??? Read what you just wrote and let’s try again please (or don’t actually).
For those you listened to the audiobook or are interested, even more of a no. When Gypsy narrates, you can tell she’s just reading what’s in front of her, no emotion. You can tell some of the stories came from her ghost writers and it’s like the first time she’s seen it is in front of the recording booth. And whoever the recording company was, if you ever leave edits in the recording, like when she repeated the same sentence 3 times, I’m immediately staying away from any other book you’ve published. Get your shit together.
None of this should’ve come as a shock to anyone reading this. Please stay away from this book for your own mental sake. And please don’t give this woman anymore money to do this. And how dare Goodreads not let me rate this less than one star.
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December 27, 20243.5/5
Dar su The Act, sužinojusi Gypsy istoriją, pakraupau, kaip ir daugelis. Siaubingas motinos elgesys, rauti dantys, krūvos operacijų ir neįgaliojo vežimėlis... sveikam vaikui. Munchausen by proxy ir mamos psichozės įkalino Gypsy motinos amžinų apgaulių asmeniniu ir valstybiniu lygiu beprotybėje. Todėl nesistebiu, kad ji buvo įsitikinusi, jog vienintelė išeitis - motinos mirtis. Nė akimirkai nesiimu Gypsy idealizuoti ar ginti, sakyti, kad ji pasielgė teisingai, moraliai ar normaliai. Vis dėlto, akivaizdu – ji neturėjo į ką kreiptis, motinos smurtas (fizinis ir emocinis) buvo viskas, ką ji žinojo, gydytojai nekreipė dėmesio ir motina darė viską, pilnu etatu, kad niekas niekada nesuprastų, jog Gypsy iš tiesų neserga, kiek jai metų. Mėtė pėdas ir melavo, prisidengdama ir katastrofomis (pvz, Katrina) ir sunkiai suvokiamomis apgaulėmis, už nusižengimus dukrą bausdama siaubingomis bausmėmis.
Knygoje, parašytoje visiškai primityviai, Gypsy savęs neteisina, prisiima atsakomybę ir ja netikėti daug priežasčių neradau. Greitas skaitinys, bet tinkamesnis tiem, kurie į bylą ir istoriją visai neįsigilinę. Įdomu, kad vietomis ji paneigia tai, ką žinojome iš The Act, bet akivaizdu ir tai, kad jos noras kurti šeimą – labai suprantamas, visgi, nejučiomis kyla mintis – ar pradžioje dar nereikėtų labai, labai daug terapijos? Nors skubėjimas, praradus tiek metų, aišku, kad taip pat savaime suprantamas.
Dar su The Act, sužinojusi Gypsy istoriją, pakraupau, kaip ir daugelis. Siaubingas motinos elgesys, rauti dantys, krūvos operacijų ir neįgaliojo vežimėlis... sveikam vaikui. Munchausen by proxy ir mamos psichozės įkalino Gypsy motinos amžinų apgaulių asmeniniu ir valstybiniu lygiu beprotybėje. Todėl nesistebiu, kad ji buvo įsitikinusi, jog vienintelė išeitis - motinos mirtis. Nė akimirkai nesiimu Gypsy idealizuoti ar ginti, sakyti, kad ji pasielgė teisingai, moraliai ar normaliai. Vis dėlto, akivaizdu – ji neturėjo į ką kreiptis, motinos smurtas (fizinis ir emocinis) buvo viskas, ką ji žinojo, gydytojai nekreipė dėmesio ir motina darė viską, pilnu etatu, kad niekas niekada nesuprastų, jog Gypsy iš tiesų neserga, kiek jai metų. Mėtė pėdas ir melavo, prisidengdama ir katastrofomis (pvz, Katrina) ir sunkiai suvokiamomis apgaulėmis, už nusižengimus dukrą bausdama siaubingomis bausmėmis.
Knygoje, parašytoje visiškai primityviai, Gypsy savęs neteisina, prisiima atsakomybę ir ja netikėti daug priežasčių neradau. Greitas skaitinys, bet tinkamesnis tiem, kurie į bylą ir istoriją visai neįsigilinę. Įdomu, kad vietomis ji paneigia tai, ką žinojome iš The Act, bet akivaizdu ir tai, kad jos noras kurti šeimą – labai suprantamas, visgi, nejučiomis kyla mintis – ar pradžioje dar nereikėtų labai, labai daug terapijos? Nors skubėjimas, praradus tiek metų, aišku, kad taip pat savaime suprantamas.
December 12, 2024
Going into this book I already educated myself with her story through movies like the ACT or TV shows so I decided I wanted to listen to this on audiobook since it was her narrating. I understand people's point of view of saying she's a murderer but how can one say that and discard what her mother did to her as a child and that be okay? Listening to her tell her story felt like she finally got a chance to tell her story her way and from her mouth. It's absolutely devastating all this girl has endured and is still able to sustain a somewhat normal life. I sure know I would be traumatized and probably rocking back and forth in my closet somewhere. I will say knowing about her situation with her teeth getting removed, you can kind of hear a little bit of the wetness in her voice through audiobook but after a while it dissipates and you don't even notice it. I thought the book was going to be like every other person's memoir from the very beginning of her life but she did a pretty good job of answering the Public's questions about what really went down in certain scenarios and really went into detail about some of the most grotesque things she had to go through with her mom and her ex-boyfriend.
December 21, 2024
“If I had been allowed to walk, it would’ve been on eggshells.” Such an impactful line. But, I’m conflicted. No doubt the mom was in the wrong. Like, severely. Lady was the gaslight queen, and had to be mentally unstable. Yet, I don’t trust Gypsy fully. This was a decent read, but content-wise, there are some obvious inconsistencies. The amount of manipulation from all involved is wild.
December 13, 2024
Strange. 3 stars due to the book being weird. It reads as a first person dark, twisted, weird fanatsy fixtion novel. It does not read as a memior. 3 stars due to it not being advertised who is it so sexual. It reads like a fabrication . It was written as you being a vixin but I can tell you lied about some of thr details. They were fabricated. No at you are able to remember alot of this. Not possible. The other two women who helped produce this are obviously using you for money. They did you a big disfavor. This is not good and should have been a first or second draft and not published. They did not give you good advice. The timelines is strange and if the argument is that this is the truth then you are stretching the truth in other interviews and changing it to fit. Good luck but this reads as fiction. It's ypu telling a story not a memior.
December 19, 2024
It should be titled “My Time to Lie”
January 4, 2025
I wouldn't usually rate a book like this but there are far too many psychopaths reviewing bombing because they don't understand trauma fucks with memory and have no empathy for someone who was failed by so many systems.
December 19, 2024
Glad it’s a borrow and not a purchase 🤷🏻♀️
December 27, 2024
i normally do not give a star rating to memoirs, as i don't want to put a numerical value on someone's life story, but for netgalley i'll be giving this one a 4/5. looking over other goodreads reviews, i honestly think it's pretty unbecoming of many users to take the time out of their day to make an account JUST to review bomb "my time to stand". you may not like gypsy. you may not like her social media presence. however, it is WRONG to rate and review a book you did not even read just because you simply don't like the author. at the end of the day, none of us were there the night of june 10, 2015, nor were any of us there during gypsy's upbringing, therefore none of us can speak on whether she is "lying" or not.
as someone who has kept up with gypsy's story for many years, i was extremely excited when i got approved for this audiobook. gypsy herself is the narrator, and that really heightened the experience because i got to hear it as it was intended to be heard. i have a lot of opinions on her story, her choices post-release, etc, and i wanted to see if "my time to stand" would change or strengthen them. regardless of your opinion on her, you cannot deny that gypsy-rose possesses extreme resilience. this memoir was unflinchingly vulnerable and honest, yet full of hope.
what made me dock a star is i wanted a little more on her life post-release, especially the transition from ryan to ken, and after that. i feel as though that time of her life was glossed over, but i know memoirs are supposed to be on the shorter side, and a lot of that time period is depicted on her lifetime show.
as someone who has kept up with gypsy's story for many years, i was extremely excited when i got approved for this audiobook. gypsy herself is the narrator, and that really heightened the experience because i got to hear it as it was intended to be heard. i have a lot of opinions on her story, her choices post-release, etc, and i wanted to see if "my time to stand" would change or strengthen them. regardless of your opinion on her, you cannot deny that gypsy-rose possesses extreme resilience. this memoir was unflinchingly vulnerable and honest, yet full of hope.
what made me dock a star is i wanted a little more on her life post-release, especially the transition from ryan to ken, and after that. i feel as though that time of her life was glossed over, but i know memoirs are supposed to be on the shorter side, and a lot of that time period is depicted on her lifetime show.
December 20, 2024
MY FAVORITE MEMOIR EVER
December 23, 2024
i have opinions
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