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Gypsy Rose Blanchard goes to be a mother! The felon-turned-social media star revealed that she’s pregnant together with her former fiance Ken Urker’s child in a YouTube video on Tuesday, July 9. Following her break up from her ex-husband, Gypsy has been very open about her rekindled romance with Ken.
Scroll right down to look again at Gypsy’s completely different relationships through the years, together with her present romance with Ken and her previous loves, together with her ex-husband.
Ken Urker
Whereas Gypsy was nonetheless in jail, she met Ken by the jail’s pen pal initiative. After they linked, they turned pals and finally started a relationship. They received engaged in 2019, however they referred to as it off in August of that yr. She recalled how she felt throughout an episode of Life After Lock-Up. “It devastated me. I believe he just about gave me each breakup line the e book,” she mentioned.
After information broke that Gypsy was getting a divorce from her husband, it was reported that she was spending time with Ken, even getting matching tattoos. Though it was initially reported that they had been simply being pleasant, pictures later got here out displaying the pair kissing at a music pageant.
Since going public with their romance, Gypsy has gushed about Ken on just a few events. In one among her first YouTube movies, she admitted that she was very excited to be again together with her ex-fiance. “I filed for divorce and I adopted my coronary heart to real love… I felt like I made that selection as a free girl. I made that selection as an unbiased girl, and I believe everybody ought to comply with their coronary heart,” she mentioned. “Life is simply too dang quick to be unhappy or really feel trapped by something in your life. I used to be in a wedding that I wasn’t proud of, and I knew that my coronary heart was elsewhere. And so I adopted that.”
Gypsy revealed that she was pregnant in July 2024, revealing that they had been anticipating the newborn in January 2025. “This was not deliberate in any respect, it was fully surprising, however we’re each very excited to tackle this new journey of parenthood,” she mentioned in a YouTube video.
Ryan Anderson
Gypsy Rose Blanchard wed Ryan Scott Anderson in 2022. Nevertheless, they ended up separating simply three months after she received out of jail. Gypsy reportedly filed for divorce from Ryan virtually two weeks after saying their separation.
“Individuals have been asking what’s going on in my life,” Gypsy reportedly wrote through Fb on March 28, 2024. “Sadly, my husband and I are going by a separation, and I moved in with my dad and mom dwelling down the bayou. I’ve the help of my household and pals to assist information me by this [sic]. I’m studying to take heed to my coronary heart. Proper now I would like time to let myself discover who I’m.” Virtually two weeks after their separation was revealed, Gypsy reportedly filed for divorce from Ryan on Monday, April 8, 2024, in keeping with TMZ.
Ryan is from Lake Charles, Louisiana. He’s a center college particular training instructor and despatched her a letter whereas she was in jail again in 2020. “We met when the pandemic was actually, actually sturdy and I had lots of emotional ups and downs due to COVID,” Gypsy Rose tells PEOPLE.
Ryan reached out to Gypsy Rose due to Tiger King, the hit Netflix docuseries. “My co-worker on the time was like ‘I need to write Tiger King.’ I mentioned, ‘I’ll let you know what, for those who write him, I’ll write Gypsy Rose Blanchard. I by no means thought she’d be my spouse,” Ryan reveals.
In his letter to Gypsy Rose, Ryan advised her “the whole lot” about him. She finally responded and mentioned the “most important cause” she did was as a result of he was from her dwelling state of Louisiana. They started corresponding through electronic mail, and he was smitten from the second he heard her voice.
Gypsy Rose admits in her interview that Ryan was her “emotional spine for the final 3 years.” She continues, “Ryan has seen me by some actually good instances, some actually onerous instances. I’d say that he’s most likely probably the most compassionate soul that I’ve ever met, and probably the most affected person. God is aware of, he’s so affected person with me, as a result of I might be loads to deal with. I might be an emotional handful.”
Regardless of assembly in 2020, Gypsy Rose and Ryan didn’t meet in individual till July 2021. They obtained their marriage license in Chillicothe, Missouri, on June 27, 2022, in keeping with The Springfield Information-Chief. They married in a small jail ceremony on July 21, 2022.
Gypsy Rose revealed that she wished to have a marriage reception after being launched from jail. “We do plan on having a reception/redo marriage ceremony with all of our household and our pals and the gown and the cake and the whole lot as a result of we deserve that. I deserve that. He deserves that,” she advised PEOPLE. “Our jail marriage ceremony was simply one thing to the place we will make our vows to one another. It was one thing that meant one thing to us. And I believe the get together is sort of for everyone else and us, however principally for everyone else.”
The spouses have had their struggles. They appeared to have break up shortly after they tied the knot in June 2022 in Missouri. That November, Gypsy knowledgeable her household that she was planning on submitting an annulment, per In Contact.
“It’s with a heavy coronary heart that this morning I decided to go forward and file for annulment and finish my marriage with Ryan,” a letter from Gypsy Rose learn. “My marriage ends with no fault to both of us. I consider we’re simply somewhere else in our lives, and discover it too troublesome to stroll a path collectively, at this level.”
Nevertheless, neither Gypsy Rose nor Ryan ever filed the paperwork for an annulment. By mid-2023, she confirmed that they’d determined to remain collectively. In response to former Bachelorette star Josh Seiter, Gypsy Rose blasted him for sending her a flirtatious electronic mail.
“I don’t know who you’re, or why you selected ME to try to discover your quarter-hour of fame, however I’ve pals all over the place, and I do know what lies you’ve advised on-line,” she replied. “I’m a married girl, my [husband’s] title is Ryan Anderson, and we do NOT recognize loopy folks such as you spreading lies. … I’ll look cute, however I’ve a smart-ass mouth, and I’m not afraid to let you know to go f**okay your self.”
In any case their ups and downs, Gypsy Rose and Ryan had been wanting ahead to beginning their life collectively. Nevertheless, Gypsy admits that the state of affairs is a bit of bittersweet. “It’s onerous as a result of I’m going into a brand new life and I’m newly married, and I’m going to have children sooner or later, and I’m going to have to clarify to my children why their grandmother on mommy’s aspect isn’t round. And that’s going to be a extremely onerous dialog,” she tells PEOPLE.
After getting out of jail, Gypsy Rose gushed about Ryan on just a few events. Throughout her interview on The View, she praised his kindness (and expertise within the kitchen). “He’s simply so real,” she quipped. “Let me let you know, he’s a tremendous cook dinner. I say that’s 25 % of why I married him.”
Ryan additionally recounted how they met, after he wrote her a letter in jail. “I believed she was lovely and liked her story, and the primary web page of my letter was telling her what her story meant to me. Then, I ended it with, ‘It’s not truthful that everyone is aware of a lot about you, and nothing about anyone else,’” he mentioned.
Along with her form phrases about Ryan, she additionally revealed that they’ve a nice intercourse life in an Instagram remark, whereas responding to some haters. “You’re rocking my world each evening…yeah I mentioned it, the D is fireplace,” she wrote. “Joyful spouse, comfortable life.”
Lower than two years after getting married, the couple separated in March 2024. It was revealed that Gypsy had filed for divorce from Ryan on April 8, 2024. For the reason that break up, Ryan revealed that he received right into a battle with Ken over textual content. He admitted that he doesn’t “like” Gypsy’s now-boyfriend, and he referred to as him a “punk.”
After their break up, Ryan has opened up about how troublesome it’s been to see his ex-wife’s relationship play out in an interview with E! Information. “The matching tattoos actually, actually received me, that was one that basically damage…It’s onerous to course of…It’s everlasting…It’s a kind of issues that you just at all times look down and see, a kind of issues that you just simply can’t erase,” he mentioned.
Nicholas Godejohn
Earlier than assembly Ken, Gypsy Rose was in a sophisticated relationship with ex-boyfriend Nicholas “Nick” Godejohn, who killed her mom, Clauddine “Dee Dee” Blanchard, in 2015. Though she gave him duct tape and a knife to hold out the homicide, Gypsy Rose hid within the rest room as a result of she struggled to listen to her mom scream.
Nonetheless, Nick recalled throughout his 20/20 interview that he felt responsible about killing Dee Dee. “When me and [Gypsy Rose] had been within the lodge room … she saved on telling me, ‘Cease crying, cease crying. There’s no cause, cause to cry. It was my concept, it wasn’t yours,’” he claimed. “I … did what I did as a result of I liked her. I actually wished a life together with her, I actually did.”
When Was Gypsy Rose Launched From Jail?
Though Nick is serving a life sentence behind bars, Gypsy Rose was launched from Missouri’s Chillicothe Correctional Middle on December 28, 2023. She was seen leaving jail with Ryan on the day of her launch.
