Mellie Stanley’s back in a pair of “My Big Fat American Gypsy Wedding” specials on TLC

They’re the breakout stars of TLC’s My Big Fat American Gypsy Wedding, which concludes its first season Sunday.

Now West Virginia’s Stanley sisters — Nettie, Laura, Kayla and wild, wild gypsy girl Mellie — have scored an upcoming special of their own.

UPDATE: Mellie Stanley returns February 10 on TLC’s Gypsy Sisters

In My Big Fat American Gypsy Wedding: The Stanley Sisters, premiering July 1 at 9/8CT, we find the Stanley women caught up in multiple family dramas.

Read Channel Guide’s exclusive interview with Mellie Stanley!

Mellie has found an even more brazen way to thumb her nose at gypsy conventions by dancing in a local strip joint, so Nettie takes matters into her own hands and shows up to make a spectacle of her wayward little sister. But an even greater crisis brings the family back together — Nettie’s 14-year-old daughter runs off with her 17-year-old boyfriend, so the Stanley women launch a take-no-prisoners plan to get the child back.

Immediately following The Stanley Sisters at 10/9CT, TLC answers American Gypsy Wedding fans’ prayers by bringing back some of its most outspoken cast members in a reunion special called The Aftermath.

The men and women will fill viewers in on how their lives have changed since they shot their episodes and give further insight into the culture, customs and conflicts in their tight-knit communities.

My Big Fat American Gypsy Wedding: The Stanley Sisters premieres July 1 at 9/8CT on TLC

My Big Fat American Gypsy Wedding: The Aftermath premieres July 1 at 10/9CT on TLC

38 Comments

  1. I find it funny that so many people bash a lifestyle they know nothing about,but the funny thing is,they got a tv show,and u dont,keep up the girls,i think its great entertainment,and i didnt know gypsy women was so pretty,,,wow.

  2. That is all America needs is a bunch of drunk and ugly gypsy sluts. I won’t be watching and if I do it will be to laugh.

  3. ive got so mad at u bunch of people up here acting like your better and you don’t like this and you don’t like that will only you can control what you read and see if u don’t like something u turn it don’t judge it only god can if your worry about something you see pray about it no sin is greater than the other and no rumney or gorger is the same that’s why they have a show they are different so DONT B jello and laura you most not know what a red neck is my girl couse they got more class than your white a$$ ill b praying for u and god knows my self tonight for working my own nerves up DONT MESS WITH MY FAMILY OR COME SAY IT TO OUR FACE( mike u wish)AND ONE MORE THING MY MOTHER HAS NEVER HURT A FLEE THATS WHAT U GET WHEN U DONT KNOW WHAT YOUR TALKING ABOUT preach it my sister

  4. OMG just watching the Stanley girls special for the first time. Gypsies? No, I don’t think so. Inbred rednecks. Yes I would say so. Why are some of the sisters so upset with Mellie? She is doing for money what they are throwing around for the world to see. I have never seen such slutty dressing as I have on the American Fake Gypsey show. Total fraud.

    I Canada if we saw these women we would cal them Goler s (look it up ‘gypsys’.

    Just saw that baptizing washes away their sins. PFFFFT! Washed away and then stuck like glue the day after.

    • and what do you really think you are do you read your bible we don’t have kids by our father and how did u become a rumney ? so yall don’t have the body to pull it off don’t b jealous I”ll b praying for yous

  5. I love the show! I don’t get how all these people are just blasting these women. To each their own… people wonder what a gypsy is and how they live, and here you catch a small glimpse.

    I think its kinda funny reading Rena’s post’s on here. First she comends people, then trashes them and in the same line says, “I don’t mean to offend” what are you? Who gives a shit about you and your harvard Phd. Friend. More power to you for having a friend that went to harvard. Hey riddle me this one though? Did you go there or did you have to pull that out of your sleeve so you could feel better about yourself after being put in place by one of these women?

    Let he who is without sin cast the first stone. I can’t cast the first stone because I’m not any better than anyone else in this world. People just need to stop judging, and look at the plank of wood they have in their own eye before calling other people out.

    Peace!

    • i avoided this site because it is full of sick, hateful people. i will go back to doing that. you cowardly, hating types are beneath me. and, i can like or dislike this show as much as i want. i can have whatever opinion i want. guess what? if celebrities air their stuff on national t.v., they are then open to criticism. ask yourself why you have to hate on total strangers that you don’t even know? at least my view is about a t.v. show….not about you (usually, but i will review you now since you really need to think about yourself and your actions)….you are a bully and a coward. I can see that you are awful people and i will not read one more word from you because you are twisted and full of meanness. not that you would recognize it, but i am highly intelligent and far above average in that regard, and it is revolting and demeaning to me to listen to vicious bottom feeders like you; as it is always painful for clever people to try and reason with idiots. i refer to this only because total strangers are making false assumptions about me and i like the TRUTH. so adieu. spread your venom amongst yourselves, it won’t reach me since i insist on going to some other place where people act human and humane. if you’re so ugly inside, i can just picture your outside….i bet you’re a fat, hideous troll. suddenly, your vitriolic spewing makes perfect sense — i’d hate the world too if i hated myself. God you’re sad.

      • will let me tell you how smart we are yes my mother took me out of school at 13 but I went back to school at 29 got my CNA LICENSE without a GED then took my medication EXAM and passed it I don’t steal lie or cheat and worked my tail to the bone my hole life

    • YOU ARE AWESOME JORGE!
      YOU NO HOW TO TELL THEM AND GO RIGHT TO THE POINT!
      I DO NOT UNDERSTAND HOW SOME PEOPLE CAN CRITIZE ME OR “US” WHEN THEY NEED TO GET THE THORN OUT THERE EYE INSTEAD OF WORRYING ABOUT THE DUST IN OURS!!!!

  6. nettie and sisters

    i enjoyed watching the show. all of you are beautiful women and i commend you for sharing yourselves. a lot of your customs and beliefs are similar to my own. take care and dont let ignorance and fear keep you away from stardom. best wishes senora lopez

    • http://enquirer.com/editions/2003/02/07/loc_lottiemae07.html. Look up this article. Remember the part on the episode where Mellie chats with her mom in jail? Let’s not forget these girls’ mother is in jail for being on America’s Most Wanted for fraud & possible connection to the homicide of an 80+ yr old man! Mellie was the 13 yr-old daughter who scammed with her mother. Nettie was the then 28 yr old daughter indicted for fraud but “still at large” back then! Commend these girls for who they are???? I think not!

  7. I love these crazy sisters especially Nettie. They are all the entertainment I need. YOU GO GIRLS….where is Nettie’s husband? and does she really have nine children?…

    • Her husband, Huey works construction like most of the men. They travel a lot. And yes, she really has nine kids. I know her daughter personally and quite honestly, they are portrayed slightly more dramatically than they really are. The situation with Nukkie was reason for anyone to want to fight. Nettie is a good mom and a strong woman.

  8. Are all gypsy women as tacky and dirty as Mellie and her ugly aunts and cousins? They all look like white trash and inbred hicks. They are not celebrities….they make gypsies look stupid and ignorant.

    • Mellie is wild and free for sure. I am one if the few has gotten to know her before her appearance on the show AND away from any drama and u can tell you that she does have a heart, a very big one. Swimming alone at 1am and then hanging out on the dock till late brings out the true person. I can assure you mellie is one of a kind.
      And if mellie happens to see this, Goodluck and stay who you are.

    • Just saw the Aftermath interview & Mellie swears shes not dancin n e more- when ws this filmd? Shes their nearly evry nite 4 fans who want 2 meet her, she gives cheap dances, will smack the hell out of u, grab ur balls & bite ur neck 4 a memorable time wit a celebrity! Oh & dont miss the shower show were shell sit on ur face nacked & then start a fight wit u afterwerds!

      • what the hell is the “shower show”? sitting on someone’s face naked sounds gross and smelly. aren’t there health laws about this sort of thing? don’t guys ever think the obvious thought: how many 100’s of other places has that thing been? think i have to revise my opinion about her. i admired the “free spiritedness” of the girl, but this is going waaayyy too far. ick and eww. now that i think about it, she’s had all the stripper moves down long before they showed her working at Vixen’s. she’s done exotic dancing before. otherwise, how’d she get so good at it in such a short time? strippers are actually the saddest people; they’ve usually been sexually abused and have very little self esteem….they come to feel that their only worth is in being “sexy”, hence the desperate bids for attention, working the pole, etc.

  9. Rena, check back here tomorrow (Sunday) morning for my preview of the Stanley Sisters and exclusive interview with Mellie. She tells me how she and her sisters stay so thin, where she shops and the surprising turn her love life has taken.

    • um, i’m sure i will be checking back in since this site is becoming more interesting lately. but, not to be too annoying, who are you? i have no idea who Lori Acken is. anyway, i’ve been a big student of kentucky/ w.va. folklore, coal mines, hatfields, mccoys, etc… and i’m a little curious to know if these stanleys are related to ralph stanley and the other stanleys who sang folk/bluegrass type music and were just terrific. i am not disparaging of appalachia at all, i’ve read about it’s history for years and it’s fascinating. i’ve been thinking of moving to Pikeville or prestonsburg for a long time.

  10. and, hey, how in the world do you look like you do after 9 kids? honestly, i’d love to know. you don’t even look like you had two.

  11. well, Nettie, i just now caught up with your reply. i wish i could know that it is YOU… i guess anybody could get on this thing and claim to be you. at any rate, i would consider it an honor to be communicating with you (if i genuinely am). i like you and your sister, truly i do. but living only to please a man might bother ME. i’d kinda like him to live to please ME. women always have to tote the load, gets tiring !! i wish you well, sorry to offend, really i am. i just love your show.

  12. I’AM A GYPSY.AND WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU ALL DOING?YOU PEOPLE ARE SICK.AND IF YOU HAD ANY GYPSY IN U YOU ALL WOULD NOT BE MAKEING A FOOL OUT OF YOURSELF.

  13. the only one worth watching is Mellie since she’s the only one with spirit enough to be an independent woman. the others scare the c__p outta me because they are nothing more than robots: “cook and clean for my man” never get an education or have a life of your own…..they are Stepford women and i guess they deserve it because they don’t even try to be different. you are living in a woman hating, dominating, patriarchal society…..it’s like 1950 down there and it’s scary.

    • renee i’d like to tell you i DO HAVE AN EDUCATION ,thank you why do people go ahead and assume thing’s that they cannot “FACT”, that’s what is wrong with the world i deciced to be a housewife with an education! not all GYPSY’S ARE THE SAME my father is not a gypsy!

    • Renee I love how, in this day an age, you have the ignorance to condemn a people for their beliefs, traditions, and lifestyle when so few still hold to their roots and heritage. Just because you feel a certain way about the patriarchy of the Romanichal Gypsy society does not make it wrong or mean that they “deserve” anything. Your ignorance is astonishing. Your life must be truly miserable if you feel the need to jump online to degrade these women for their choices. Have they come to your home and forced you to conform to their beliefs? Have they forced you to watch the show? No. I’m fairly certain they haven’t. I would love to see any woman have 9 children, on top of being a mother to so many others and still maintain any sanity. She is fiercely protective of her own, and rightfully so. What would happen if someone turned a camera on you in your most raw form? Smh. You should be ashamed, really.

      • i cannot waste my time on a jerk like you. you’re obviously a loser looking for a fight and i’m not going to give it to you. i told Nettie that i don’t like that life for me and said i don’t want to offend her andthat i LIKE HER AND HER SHOW. but that is not enough for you. you should be careful who you call stupid. i had a friend who was a Harvard Phd. and a published author and she enjoyed my friendship because precisely because i am NOT stupid and could keep up with her intellectually. you are mean and nasty and there is enough of that in this world. now just go away. i will not say one more word to you. except to say that i’ve done nothig to you and do not deserve to have a total stranger give me a hard time. look into YOURSELF — why do you feel the need to hassle a person you don’t even know? i’ve done nothing to you. and whatever opinion i HAVE, it’s America and i’m allowed to have it. hey, at least i put my real name here. i live in Newburgh, NY. you wanna be all bad? come on up and i’ll give you the same treatment Nettie gave Pookie’s family,

  14. i just can’t under stand how you so called romany woman can make us look like whores and stripper’s what are you thinking you woman are the only one’s i have ever seen act like that but never in my life have i seen anything like you’s is this the only way for you to make money to run up and down wareing dresses that are way to big n ugly maybe thats why you live in westva because we do not look or dress or talk or act like this please go hide yourself’s what in the world is going on in your life to act like this >>> YOU NEED JESUS <<<

    • there people go judging you. FORMETONO= THERE’S ONLY 1 MAN THAT CAN JUDGE FORREAL. I HAVE JESUS AND I’LL PASS THIS PRAYER ON TO YOU MATTHEW7:1-6 DO NOT JUDGE OTHERS,AND YOU WILL NOT BE JUDGED. 2.FOR YOU WILL BE TREATED AS YOU TREATED OTHERS. THE STANDARD YOU USE IN JUDGING IS THE STANDARD BY WHICH YOU WILL BE JUDGED. AND WHY WORRY ABOUT A SPECK IN YOUR FRIENDS EYE WHEN YOU HAVE A LOG IN YOURS.
      AND FIND THE REST IN YOUR BIBLE!

    • FOR ME TO NO—— YOU NEED TO READ MATTHEW 7:1-6
      DO NOT JUDGE FOR YOU WILL BE JUDGE IN THE SAME WAY!

      • This would be awesome if this truly is Nettie Stanley! That being said if it is I enjoy watching you on t.v. and honestly got SOOO emotional and upset over the Nookie situation where I have a 13 y.o daughter myself! I pray that Nettie get her baby girl back from those people shame on them for putting her through this bull! Love and prayers Stanley family! Lori B.

          • you know why i’m annoyed? because you can’t give me the slightest credit, and you are wrong. i spent time saying how much i love appalachia and bluegrass and the stanley sisters. so i don’t like that she sits naked on men’s faces…well who would? so i don’t like the idea of MYSELF living only to please a man? well who would? you’re trying to tell me i don’t even have the right to think or feel and IT IS WRONG !!

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