Age
Throughout the course of the show Blanche's precise age was never told. During the Mother's Day episode, Blanche's mother says that she was 17 in 1949, which would have put her being born in 1932, roughly. She always claimed to be in her late thirties or early forties, but none of the other women believed her, believing that she was lying due to her vain personality. She went through menopause during the first season, which is typical of a woman in her late 40s or early 50s. One episode had her granddaughter visit, whereupon she reveals the nickname she asked the girl to call her by-"Sis". Even the government had gotten involved. In an episode later in the series, Rose successfully got all of Blanche's documentation, but when she sat down with the other girls to go over the information she had received, in the age columns of all of papers it said "Deleted by Authority of the Governor", implying Blanche had slept with the governor to get the information regarding her age slipped from her record. In one episode, one of Blanche's ex-lovers mentioned her age as 68, although he later admitted that was fabricated. Another episode had Blanche discovering Roses' attempts to find out her age, whereupon she says that she will-on the condition that Rose tell how much she weighs, which results in them both giving obvious fake answers.
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