Gypsy Rose Blanchard’s Husband on Planning Her 1st ‘Real Date’: ‘She’s Going to Get All Gussied Up’ (Exclusive)

For Ryan Anderson and his newly released wife Gypsy Rose Blanchard, they have a full year-end calendar.

Anderson, 37, a special education teacher from Louisiana, picked up Gypsy from the Chillicothe Correctional Center in Missouri on Thursday, where the Munchausen by proxy victim was serving eight years for her role in killing her abusive mother, Dee Dee.

Gypsy and Anderson’s relationship before her release will be featured in an exciting new Lifetime docu-series Prison Confessions of Gypsy Rose Blanchardpremiered on Jan. 5, and the couple opened up to PEOPLE in exclusive interviews ahead of her release.

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One thing his wife asked for to celebrate being single: “My gumbo,” Anderson tells PEOPLE. “I’m from Louisiana and Gypsy loves my gumbo, so I plan to make a big gumbo for everyone. That’s what she wants.”

Gypsy was released a few days after Christmas, and Anderson and her family. including dad Rod, step-mom Kristy and her step-siblings gather to welcome her home and recreate the holiday for her.

Gypsy Rose Blanchard and her husband Ryan Anderson.

Courtesy of Gypsy Rose and Ryan Anderson

“Of course I’ve got gifts that I bought her and stuff,” says Anderson, “so we’re going to hang out a little bit. Then, the day after, Gypsy has a spa day planned.”

Right after that, Anderson says, it will be time to hit the town. “That evening I will take her to my place and spend a romantic night and take her on a first date,” he says. “Gypsy has never been on a real date where you go and sit somewhere, eat and go to the movies or do whatever.”

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According to Gypsy, “I was very sheltered. And what I knew about the outside world was only in Disney cartoons.”

The only time Anderson says she went out was on an escorted date in her early 20s with ex Nicholas “Nick” Godejohn, a man she met online who is now serving a life sentence for the 2015 murder of her mother Dee.

Nicholas “Nick” Godejohn, Gypsy Rose Blanchard insert.

“You have to think, with her mom,” Anderson says, “the one time she met Nick, it was at the movies and she didn’t even get to sit down with him. Her main thing is, ‘I’ve never been on a real date.’ she’ll get all fired up, and so will I, and I’ll take her to a nice little candlelit place. That’s what I want to do.”

When it comes to intimacy, although Anderson and Gypsy were not allowed conjugal visits during her time in prison, they still managed to form a deep bond. “You have to develop ways of intimacy,” he says. For example, “we make noises when we want to hug each other,” she describes their phone conversations before going public.

Prison Confessions of Gypsy Rose Blanchard.

Courtesy of Lifetime Network

The freedom to be completely together will be a whole new world for the couple. “I don’t even know what it’s like to live with a man,” Gypsy tells PEOPLE. Anderson says, “It’s going to be different, but it’s something we’re looking forward to.”

Although Gypsy’s dad and stepmom wanted her to wait to get married until after her release, the couple feel solid and have what it takes to do so. “It’s going to be tough,” Anderson says. “But me and Gypsy are up for a challenge. We like to prove people wrong.”

The Prison Confessions of Gypsy Rose Blanchard, a six-hour special offering unprecedented proxy access to Munchausen’s most popular victim, premieres January 5th on Lifetime at 8pm ET/PT.

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