Women's Health may earn commission from the links on this page, but we only feature products we believe in. Why Trust Us? The new Hulu show, "The Act," will portray the true story of Dee Dee Blanchard ...

April is National Child Abuse Awareness Month, and it got me wondering how aware practitioners are of atypical child abuse. I recently came across the mere second clear incident of it in my 20-year ...

Diagnosing medical conditions is not easy. Patients can have nondescript symptoms that could point to common problems as easily as rare or poorly understood ones. They can sprinkle in irrelevant ...

What Is Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy? Munchausen syndrome by proxy is a mental illness where a caregiver makes up or exaggerates an illness in a person in their care. This disorder is now called ...

Gypsy Rose Blanchard is a free woman. The child abuse victim who in 2016 was sentenced for her involvement in her mother's murder was released from Chillicothe Correctional Center in Chillicothe, ...

Blanchard received a 10-year sentence after being convincted along with then-boyfriend Nicholas Godejohn of murdering her mother Clauddine “Dee Dee” Blanchard, a case that made national headlines and ...