Gypsy Rose Blanchard
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Gypsy Rose Blanchard goes to be a mother.
She posted a video on YouTube on Tuesday asserting that she and her boyfriend, Ken Urker, expect their first baby.
“Effectively … the rumors are true!” she wrote within the caption for the video. “Ken and I are so excited to begin our household collectively and that i can’t wait to share my journey with you right here on YouTube and my different social media platforms. Thanks for all of your help thus far and that i can’t wait to see our household develop.”
She additionally shared the information on Instagram together with skilled pictures of her and Urker, writing: “We’re proud to announce we expect our first baby in January 2025💗”
Within the YouTube video, Blanchard mentioned she’s 11 weeks pregnant and famous that the being pregnant was “not deliberate” and “fully sudden.” “However we’re each very excited to tackle this new journey of parenthood,” she added.
Addressing considerations, she mentioned: “I do know that there are going to be individuals who really feel like I’m not able to be a mom, and I don’t know if anybody’s actually able to grow to be a mom.”
Blanchard added, “Once I came upon I used to be pregnant, nothing else mattered,” together with drama on social media. She mentioned she and Ken are in a very good place and that she’s centered on her well being.
“It’s a tremendous feeling when your complete world shifts,” she mentioned. “And all of the sudden it’s not about you; it’s not about something apart from the tiny little life that’s inside you that you’re now answerable for defending. And that little tiny life is a child, a bit tiny human that’s yours, that it’s a must to just remember to defend, you like, you care for, and the entire issues that I needed I might have had once I was little.”
Blanchard obtained emotional at this half, and continued: “All of the issues that I needed in a mom, I wish to give to this child. Understanding that, I’m a mom now, and I’m comfortable, and I simply wish to be a very good mom for my baby. I wish to be every part my mom wasn’t.”
As a reminder, Blanchard was sentenced to 10 years in jail in 2016 after she pleaded responsible to persuading Nicholas Godejohn, a boyfriend she met on-line, to kill her mom. Dee Dee Blanchard had compelled Blanchard to fake for years that she was affected by critical sicknesses, together with leukemia and muscular dystrophy. She was launched on parole from Missouri’s Chillicothe Correctional Heart on Dec. 28 after serving 85 % of her unique sentence.
Since then, her life has been a whirlwind of navigating paparazzi and sudden fame (she was confronted with cameras on her first time out whereas looking for a brand new pair of footwear), submitting for divorce from husband Ryan Anderson (whom she met and wed whereas in jail) and reuniting together with her ex-fiancé, Urker (whom she additionally met whereas in jail).
She’s been been featured in two Lifetime docuseries, The Jail Confessions of Gypsy Rose Blanchard, which debuted in January and included her interviews from jail, and Gypsy Rose: Life After Lock Up, which debuted in June and paperwork her life instantly following her launch from jail.
In Might, Blanchard talked to The Hollywood Reporter about her new present and her relationship with Urker. Requested if she was comfortable, she replied: “Sure, I’m comfortable. I’m lastly comfortable.”
She additionally acknowledged the rumors of her being pregnant, noting that these can be addressed in her present Lifetime collection. The season finale of Gypsy Rose: Life After Lock Up airs July 22.