Gypsy Rose Blanchard has introduced she’s pregnant and can welcome her first baby into the world early subsequent yr.
“I do know the rumours have been flying round for fairly a while now, and I’m blissful to announce that I’m 11 weeks pregnant,” Blanchard, 32, stated in a YouTube video shared on Tuesday, confirming that the dad is boyfriend Ken Urker.
She stated the child was “not deliberate,” however that she and Urker “are each very excited to tackle this new journey of parenthood.”
She additionally shared a collection of maternity pictures to Instagram on the identical time, the place the smiling couple confirmed off sonogram pictures and a tiny sweater to the digital camera.
Blanchard was launched from jail in December 2023 after serving greater than eight years behind bars for her position within the second-degree homicide of her mom, Clauddine (Dee Dee) Blanchard.
In childhood, Dee Dee satisfied her daughter and everybody else, together with her docs, that Blanchard had quite a few power well being issues, together with leukemia, muscular dystrophy and mind harm.
It’s believed Dee Dee suffered from Munchausen syndrome by proxy, a psychological well being dysfunction that includes a caregiver projecting diagnoses or inducing signs in a dependent.
At 23, Blanchard requested her then-boyfriend Nicholas Godejohn, whom she met on-line, to kill her mom. Godejohn fatally stabbed Dee Dee 17 occasions whereas she slept. He’s serving life in jail for the 2015 crime.
Blanchard and Urker had been beforehand in a relationship whereas she was behind bars, however known as it quits in 2019. Blanchard began one other relationship with pen pal Ryan Anderson whereas serving time, and the pair married whereas she was an inmate in 2022, however divorced in April of this yr, simply 5 months after she was launched.
She confirmed she was again along with Urker shortly after submitting for divorce from Anderson.
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