Gypsy Rose Blanchard Reveals She's Getting Cosmetic Surgery: 'Wish Me Luck' (Exclusive)

Gypsy Rose Blanchard is making even more changes to her life three months after leaving prison

In the midst of a major transition in her life, Gypsy Rose Blanchard is making a change to her appearance as well.

The famed Munchausen by proxy victim, 32, tells PEOPLE exclusively that she is preparing to undergo rhinoplasty to change the shape and appearance of her nose.

"I’m going through a personal transformation journey currently and that includes a physical one, too," she says in an exclusive statement. "Wish me luck with my surgery and watch the whole thing this summer on Gypsy Rose: Life After Lock Up."

According to Blanchard's close friend Nadiya Vizier, the procedure is something she has been wanting for a while. "She said she's a bit nervous, but she's happy it's going to be done," Vizier tells PEOPLE. "The main thing is that she wanted a more feminine looking nose. She just wants to fix it up and give it a more feminine look."

And, says her pal, making that change is Blanchard's prerogative. "My main message is to just, people need to let her live, let her experience, if they know that she's doing something good or wrong, let her experience that. Let her learn from it. I feel like in a way, people are still trying to control her."

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News of the procedure, scheduled for April 5 in Lafayette, La., comes a week after it was revealed that Blanchard is currently separated from husband of nearly two years, Ryan Anderson, who is featured in the upcoming docuseries.

In the wake of their split Blanchard has been spotted spending quality time with her ex-fiancé Ken Urker, who joined her in getting matching tattoos earlier this week.

"They're very cool," Urker's mother Raina Williams told PEOPLE of the pair, after confirming they'd reconnected following Blanchard and Anderson's split. "Ken is just being a supportive friend to her."

In Blanchard's 2024 Lifetime docuseries The Prison Confessions of Gypsy Rose Blanchard, she revealed that she was still in contact with Urker in the weeks leading up to her 2022 wedding with Anderson, and she admitted to still having feelings for him.

During a phone conversation between Anderson and Blanchard, she also reveals that she had a dream that she left Anderson for Urker, causing a fight between the couple. But it seems the pair were able to move past the comments at the time and continue their relationship.

Though she and Anderson appeared to be in marital bliss for the first month of their relationship, Blanchard announced her separation from the school teacher on social media last week.

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"People have been asking what is going on in my life. Unfortunately my husband and I are going through a separation and I moved in with my parents home down the bayou. I have the support of my family and friends to help guide me through this. I am learning to listen to my heart. Right now I need time to let myself find… who I am," she wrote in a statement obtained by PEOPLE from her private Facebook account.

This year has brought one huge change after another for Blanchard, who was released from prison in December of 2023 after serving eight years of her 10-year prison sentence for conspiring to murder her mother, Dee Dee Blanchard, with her then-boyfriend, Nicholas Godejohn.

"I'm ready to expand, and I think that goes for every facet of my life," she previously told PEOPLE in an exclusive interview just before her release.

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Blanchard's upcoming surgical procedure will likely be the first in which she is a fully willing participant. While on trial for her mother's murder she testified that from childhood into her teens she suffered through numerous unnecessary surgeries, orchestrated by her mother who'd misled doctors to believe her daughter had varied ailments.

As for her recovery, "she's going to be resting for about two weeks," says Vizier.

Gypsy Rose: Life After Lock Up premieres June 3 on Lifetime.

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