Gypsy Rose Blanchard is pregnant.
The author and reality TV star, 32, who spent eight years in prison for her role in the 2015 murder of her allegedly abusive mother, Clauddine “Dee Dee” Blanchard, announced July 9 in a YouTube video that she and boyfriend Ken Urker were expecting their first child.
In her video, titled “I’m Pregnant, My Journey So Far,” Gypsy Rose Blanchard revealed she was 11 weeks pregnant and was due in January 2025.
“This was not planned at all. This was completely unexpected, but we’re both very excited to take on this new journey of parenthood,” Blanchard said.
Blanchard, who was released from prison in December 2023, addressed concerns.
“I know that there are going to be people who feel like I’m not ready to be a mother,” she said. Her response? “I don’t know if anyone’s really ready to be a mother.”
“I just want to be a good mother for my child. I want to be everything my mother wasn’t,” she said.
Blanchard is believed to have been a victim of Munchausen syndrome by proxy, a psychological disorder in which a caretaker makes someone ill or creates the illusion of them being ill in order to receive attention.
Dee Dee Blanchard, Gypsy Rose Blanchard’s mother, “was convinced Gypsy suffered from a wide range of health issues,” according to Ozarks First.
Blanchard met Urker after he wrote her a “letter of support” in 2017, she told E! News in 2019. Urker proposed to Blanchard while she was still in prison in 2018.
The two later parted ways in 2019. Blanchard went on to marry another man, Ryan Anderson, in a prison wedding ceremony in 2022.
Blanchard began spending time with Urker again earlier this year following her split with Anderson. In an interview with TODAY.com earlier this year, Anderson said he felt “blindsided” by the breakup.
“I’m just experiencing things as they come. I’m still in reflection and processing mode,” he says. “A lot has happened. It’s hard to wrap my head around a lot of things that have happened because I mean, when I say I’m blindsided, I really am blindsided about how fast things progressed.”
Blanchard confirmed to People in May that she and Urker were back together, saying for the first time in her life, she’s “doing something that makes me happy — I’m prioritizing me.”
TODAY.com has reached out to Blanchard for comment.
