Gypsy Sisters

***Gypsy Sisters*** is an American reality television series following the daily life of Romanichal women located in Martinsburg, West Virginia. The series is a spin-off to *My Big Fat American Gypsy Wedding* and aired for four seasons on TLC from February 10, 2013 to July 19, 2015, before eventually being cancelled due to low ratings.

## Overview

The series follows four women in the outrageous Stanley family, a loud and proud clan first introduced in *My Big Fat American Gypsy Wedding*, taking a closer look at these women as they lead the family with their own set of rules, and where everything is taken to the extreme, including their fights and their love for each other. Martinsburg, West Virginia is a hotbed for Gypsy culture and intrigue. With their husbands constantly on the road for work, the women are expected to stay home, cook, clean, and raise the children. When they're not busy doing household chores and working to look their best, they keep themselves entertained by involving themselves in each other's lives, whether they're welcomed or not.

## Cast

* **Nettie Stanley** (Seasons 1-4) - The oldest sister and matriarch of the family. Nellie is the self-proclaimed mother hen of her gypsy girls. She has nine children of her own and has multiple grandchildren. At the end of season 3, she renewed her wedding vows to her husband, Huey, after ten years. After losing her stepson in a violent event, she left TV behind, and works to raise her family out of the spotlight.
* **Mellie Stanley** (Seasons 1-4) - Nettie, Dovie and JoAnn's younger sister. Known as the black sheep of the family, Mellie wants to break away from the gypsy lifestyle. She is now a single mother of four children: son Richard Joel Whetzel Stanley (born in 2013, with ex-husband Robbie York), daughter Brandy Wyne Leveniya Picolo (born January 2015 with Nik Picolo), daughter Divinity Rose Lee (born November 2016, with ex-husband George Lee Jr.), and daughter Serenity Faye West (born March 2020, with partner MJ West). In 2017, Mellie and her then husband George were arrested for an $18,000 Toys R' Us and Babies R' Us coupon fraud scam. In 2019, she was sentenced to five years in prison with the requirement she would have to obtain her G.E.D. in that time.
* **JoAnn Wells** (Seasons 2-4) - Mellie, Dovie and Nettie's sister. She has two kids and has recently separated from her husband of thirteen years. She's the good-natured one of the bunch. In season 3, she announced plans to divorce her husband, briefly reconciling with him in 2016 before they once again split, and she remarried. In 2014, JoAnn was arrested for a $14,000 Target coupon fraud scam, to which she pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 24 months supervised probation in lieu of six to seventeen months in prison, and order to pay Target back $14,786 in restitution.
* **Sheila "Kayla" Williams** (Seasons 1-4) - Annie's sister. She has five children: Danielle, Kayla (Sissy), Richard, Lexi, and George. Kayla and her husband of seventeen years, Richard, are now divorced. Kayla was briefly married to Adam Prather before they divorced, and she is now married to Benny Small. She is now a grandmother as her daughter, Danielle, has two daughters with her husband George, and her daughter Sissy has two sons and a daughter with her husband Bruce. Her ex-husband Richard has two sons with Danielle Malone (sister to James Malone, the father of Dallas' daughters, and Annie's ex-husband).
* **Angela "Annie" Malone** (Seasons 2-4) - Kayla's sister. Annie has five kids but still has plenty of growing up to do. Annie is playful and fun and always makes the other girls laugh with her antics. Annie married James Malone, the father of her cousin Dallas' children, after her Big Fat Gypsy Wedding to her cousin Josh failed. The pair have since divorced, and she is now remarried.
* **Dovie Carter** (Season 4) - Nettie, Mellie, and JoAnn's sister, Dovie is the family peacemaker and is like JoAnn.
* **Laura Johnston** (Season 1) - Kayla and Annie's sister-in-law. Laura married into the gypsy clan when she married Kayla and Annie's brother Gus. Together, they have three daughters Savannah, Hailey and Bella.
* **Sheena Small** (Season 2) - First cousin to Mellie, Nettie, JoAnn, Dovie, Kayla and Annie. She was formerly married to Mellie and Nettie's brother Henry. Together they had four girls: Shakira, Shanie, Shirley, and Frankie.
* **Dallas Nichole Williams** (Multiple seasons) - Nettie's oldest daughter, and mother of Demi, Richard, London, Aaron, Archie, and Huey. As of Christmas 2016, she was once again reconciled with James Malone, much to the chagrin of his wife Dallas' cousin. The reconciliation between Dallas and Jay was short lived, however, and he has since left her.
* **Nettie "Nuckie" Williams** (Multiple seasons) - After a marriage that produced one child, Prince Henry, Nuckie left Pookie and her son to travel the roads and see the world with her heroin addict boyfriend. As of December 2016, she had been found by Pookie and Samantha and returned to her mother. Samantha later left Pookie in February and filed divorce. In March, Pookie went on to pursue a relationship with Nuckie again, they welcomed their second child together, a daughter named Ivory born November 2017, and another daughter, Delilah Dee, born in 2019.

## Episodes

Main article: *List of Gypsy Sisters episodes*

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