Gypsy Rose Blanchard has announced that she is pregnant and expecting her first child with boyfriend Ken Urker.
Blanchard, 32, told her followers in a 9-minute YouTube video on Tuesday that she was 11 weeks pregnant and called it a “blessing.”
“Ken and I are expecting our first child in January 2025,” she said. “We are both very excited. It was not planned at all, it was completely unexpected, but we are both very excited to embark on this new journey of parenthood.”
Gypsy Rose Blanchard was previously engaged to Urker in 2018 and began dating her after her split from ex-husband Ryan Anderson.
Blanchard and Anderson split earlier this year, three months after their marriage. While she was in prison for her role in her mother’s murder.
She was sentenced to 10 years for second-degree murder in the death of her mother, Clauddine “Dee Dee” Blanchard. Who was killed by Blanchard’s then-boyfriend, Nicholas Godejohn.
Blanchard was released last year after seven years in prison. Godejohn was sentenced to life imprisonment.
Blanchard said on Tuesday that she is experiencing some pregnancy symptoms, including food cravings and mood swings. She also reflected on the “amazing feeling when your world changes”.
“All of a sudden, it’s not about you,” she said. “It’s not about anything other than the little life inside of you, which it’s now your responsibility to protect.”
“That little life is a baby, a little human being that’s yours, you’ve got to make sure you protect, you’ve got to love, you’ve got to take care of,” said Blanchard, who started tearing up. I could have had when I was younger … all the things that I want in a mother, I want to give to this child.”
“I just want to be a good mother to my child, I want to be everything my mother wasn’t.”