Julie Gregory

Julie Gregory (1969) is an American author of Sickened: The Memoir of a Munchausen by Proxy Childhood, an autobiographical account of the Münchausen syndrome by proxy abuse she suffered as a child.

Childhood
Gregory was raised in rural Ohio alongside her brother Danny, who was seven years younger than her. As a child, Gregory's mother, Sandy Gregory, would give her matches to suck on as treats and withheld food from her daughter. Reasons for withholding food would include forgetting to fill the forms needed for school lunches and supposed allergies. Some days Gregory would wake up with her mother announcing she was too ill to go to school, or be pulled out of classes by her mother.

During one doctor's visit when Gregory was 12, she was asked to stand and began feeling faint due to a lack of food. The doctor, hearing her racing heart, became concerned that Gregory might have a heart problem, and recommended follow up tests. Her mother began telling others that Gregory had a heart condition and pursuing an open heart surgery that she deemed essential.

Film appearances
Julie Gregory starred in the film I Didn’t Think You Didn’t Know I Wasn’t Dead and My New Advisor by Columbus, Ohio, independent filmmaker Jim Bihari.