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, placing her birth year in 1931 or 1932. 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, the age columns of all of papers said "Deleted by Authority of the Governor", implying Blanche had sex with the Governor to get her age struck from her record. In a 1993 episode of "The Golden Palace", Blanche's mentally unstable brother, Tad, confirms to Rose that Blanche is in her early 60s.