Who knew Gypsy Rose Blanchard was a Cardi B fan?
The Prison Confessions of Gypsy Rose Blanchard subject took to TikTok this week to share a “Toot It Up” dance video — set to Pardison Fontaine and Cardi’s February single “Toot It Up” — admirably tackling the viral choreography, including dribbling an invisible basketball between her legs to Cardi’s lyric “If you a ball player, I’m tryna recruit that a–.” It was all going pretty well until the end, when Blanchard dropped it low into a squat… and promptly tumbled backward offscreen.
“It was so close to being perfect. My quirkiness never fails me,” she wrote in the TikTok caption alongside a laugh-crying emoji.
In 2015, Gypsy Rose was arrested alongside her then-boyfriend and subsequently convicted of second-degree murder in the death of her mother, Dee Dee Blanchard. Gypsy Rose’s life story — about the physical, mental and medical abuse she endured at the hands of her mom — was turned into an eight-episode Hulu series in 2019 called The Act, with Joey King earning an Emmy nomination for playing Gypsy Rose and Patricia Arquette winning an Emmy for portraying Dee Dee.
Gypsy Rose served eight years of her 10-year prison sentence before her December 2023 release. Last year, Lifetime aired two separate Gypsy Rose shows: the documentary series The Prison Confessions of Gypsy Rose Blanchard and the post-prison reality series Gypsy Rose: Life After Lock Up. Season 2 of Life After Lock Up premiered last month.
One commenter on Gypsy Rose’s “Toot It Up” dance wrote, “I’m telling my kids this was JLO,” to which Blanchard replied: “Best compliment of my life.”
Watch Gypsy Rose accept the “Toot It Up” dance challenge on TikTok or below: