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Gypsy Rose Blanchard is pregnant: 'I want to be everything my mother wasn't'
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Date:2025-04-18 12:35:40
Gypsy Rose Blanchard is going to be a mom.
Blanchard, who went to prison for conspiring with her then-boyfriend to kill her mother, shared the news that she is expecting her first child with Ken Urker in a YouTube video on Tuesday titled "I'm Pregnant, My Journey So Far."
In the video, Blanchard, 32, said that she is 11 weeks pregnant and that the child is due in January 2025.
"We're both very excited," she said. "This was not planned at all. It was completely unexpected, but we're both very excited to take on this new journey of parenthood."
Since being released from prison in December, Blanchard separated from her husband, Ryan Scott Anderson, and got back together with Urker, her former fiancé. She and Urker got engaged while she was in prison.
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Blanchard served eight years in prison for her role in the fatal stabbing of her mother Dee Dee Blanchard, who allegedly suffered from Munchausen syndrome by proxy and made Blanchard seem to have various health issues.
The Cleveland Clinic describes Munchausen syndrome by proxy, or factitious disorder imposed on another, as a mental illness "in which a person acts as if an individual he or she is caring for has a physical or mental illness when the person is not really sick."
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Blanchard was sentenced to 10 years but was granted parole in 2023. Her boyfriend at the time, Nick Godejohn, received a life sentence for killing Blanchard's mother. The case has been explored in numerous documentaries, including HBO's "Mommy Dead and Dearest," and dramatized in the Hulu series "The Act."
In her YouTube video, Blanchard said she has felt a "shift in" herself since she learned of her pregnancy, which made her realize that "none of anything else mattered." She became emotional as she went on to say that she would provide her child with protection, love, and "all of the things that I wished I could have had."
"All of the things I wanted in a mother, I want to give to this baby," she said. "...I just want to be a good mother for my child. I want to be everything my mother wasn't."
Blanchard also addressed critics who she anticipated would say she is "not ready" to be a mom.
"I don't know if anyone's really ready to become a mother," she said. "I don't know anybody that said, 'Okay, I'm ready. I'm doing this.' In my experience, everybody that I ever talked to, they're like, 'It just happened."
Contributing: David Oliver, Ryan Collingwood and Mary Walrath-Holdridge
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