‘Not planned’: Gypsy Rose Blanchard and Ken Urker expecting first child

Convicted murderer Gypsy Rose Blanchard has announced some unexpected news, two months after rekindling with her ex-boyfriend.

Gypsy Rose Blanchard is pregnant.

The 32-year-old announced shed is expecting her first child with boyfriend Ken Urker, 31, on Tuesday, The New York Post reports.

Blanchard shared the special news on Instagram and in a YouTube video titled, “I’m Pregnant, My Journey So Far”.

In her Instagram post, Blanchard and Urker posed with photos of her sonogram. They also held up a jumper for the baby with the word “Hi” printed on it.

“We are proud to announce we are expecting our first child in January 2025,” the caption read.

Blanchard said in the YouTube video the pregnancy was “not planned”.

Gypsy Rose Blanchard and Ken Urker. Picture: Instagram

The couple said they were 'so proud' to announce they were expecting. Picture: Instagram

The couple met through a penpal program while Blanchard was serving a 10-year sentence for the second-degree murder of her mother, Clauddine “Dee Dee” Blanchard.

They got engaged in 2018 but broke up afterwards.

Blanchard said in a YouTube video about her pregnancy that it was 'not planned'. Picture: YouTube

Blanchard went on to fall for Ryan Scott Anderson, a Louisiana middle school special education teacher. Their romance blossomed as they began regularly writing to each other while Blanchard was incarcerated.

The pair were married in a jailhouse ceremony at Missouri’s Chillicothe Correctional Centre in July 2022.

Blanchard was released from prison in December 2023 and she split from Anderson, 38, three months later. She filed for divorce in April.

“Unfortunately my husband and I are going through a separation and I moved in with my parents home down the bayou,” she wrote on Facebook in March.

“I have the support of my family and friends to help guide me through this. I am learning to listen to my heart. Right now I need time to let myself find … who I am.”

Blanchard and her ex-husband, Ryan Anderson, split earlier this year. Picture: Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images

Shortly after the separation, the convicted murderer rekindled her romance with Urker.

“Ken and I reconnected as friends. It wasn’t like, jump out of a marriage and then let me meet up with you, and boom, we’re in a relationship,” Blanchard told People magazine in May.

“We had kept a friendship for the longest time. He was in a relationship. I was with Ryan, and so we were living different lives with respect to our partners, a ‘wish you the best’ type of thing.

“It wasn’t until I knew that my marriage was over that I was like, ‘I would like to see you and let’s hang out because we never got to hang out before I was in prison’.

Blanchard revealed in May that she wanted to be a mum. Picture: Phillip Faraone/Getty Images/AFP

“Ken was that support for me when going through this emotional hardship of crying and then being okay and then crying. Then I let myself open up to the feelings that I’ve always had for Ken. Those feelings just don’t die.

“I would say that Ken is my first love because that’s when I honestly felt like a mature love. It wasn’t based off a fantasy. It was actually based on a connection that two people have for each other.”

Blanchard revealed in May that she wants to be a mum.

“Absolutely I want kids someday. I think I’m going to be a good mother,” she told Us Weekly.

“I think Ken would be a wonderful father, and so we’ll see what the future holds for us.”

Blanchard and Urker were previously engaged in 2018. Picture: Instagram

Blanchard’s late mother subjected her to years of child abuse – confining her to a wheelchair and forcing her to use a feeding tube despite being healthy.

Dee Dee had Munchausen by proxy syndrome, a psychological disorder in which parents seek sympathy and attention through the exaggeration or made-up illness of their children.

In June 2015, Blanchard’s then-boyfriend Nicholas Godejohn, who she met on a Christian dating website, stabbed Dee Dee to death in her Springfield, Missouri home.

Godejohn was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to life in prison plus 25 years.

Blanchard pleaded guilty in 2016 to second-degree murder and was sentenced to 10 years.

She was released early on parole after seven years behind bars.

This article originally appeared on The New York Post and was reproduced with permission

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