Gypsy Rose Blanchard Says She "Experimented" With Sexuality successful Prison
Gypsy Rose Blanchard said she knew Ken Urker was the one the time they met.
And adjacent though they archetypal laid eyes connected each different successful 2017, and a full batch of beingness happened for Gypsy in the meantime, it turns retired she was spot-on astir their meant-to-be potential.
The 33-year-old, who reunited with Ken this past spring, revealed July 9 that she is pregnant with their archetypal kid together. She shared the blessed news connected Instagram with a maternity sprout featuring sonogram photos, a tiny sweater and assorted different adorable signs of a babe connected board. The pursuing month, Gypsy announced the mates is expecting a babe girl and that they're “over the moon” to commencement their family.
It's a caller section the mom-to-be wasn’t expecting—not lone due to the fact that she noted connected YouTube the gestation was "not planned astatine all,” but besides due to the fact that she didn’t expect rekindling her romance with Ken successful the archetypal place.
"I didn't person it connected my bingo card," Gypsy told E! News' Keltie Knight successful May astir getting backmost unneurotic with her ex-fiancé astir 5 years aft they archetypal broke up. "And present we are."
The prima of the Lifetime docuseries Gypsy Rose: Life After Lock Up said she and Ken stayed friends, adjacent aft she joined teacher Ryan Anderson successful June 2022. Gypsy shared successful March that she and her husband, whom she wed portion serving situation clip for her relation successful her mother's 2015 murder, were separating.
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But adjacent erstwhile she and Ken were successful interaction much "sparingly present and there," she said, "we inactive remained friends. And it wasn't until I filed for divorce that I truly realized that spark, that connection, is adjacent amended than I expected."
Gypsy continued, “I've matured, he's grown. So I deliberation close present is the clip successful our lives, that it's the close time, close place—everything."
For some, however, the timing betwixt the divorcement filing and her gestation announcement had commenters questioning whether Ken truly is the father. Of that, Gypsy expressed nary doubt.
“This is perfectly 100 percent Ken’s baby,” she told Good Morning America in July. “There was ne'er immoderate question of paternity.”
And Gypsy is definite Ken volition proceed to beryllium by her broadside arsenic they navigate parenthood, conscionable arsenic he’s been determination for her arsenic she's gone done the analyzable process of grieving for her mom, Clauddine "Dee Dee" Blanchard.
Gypsy, who has spoken extensively astir suffering years of carnal and intelligence maltreatment portion surviving nether her mother's roof, was released from situation successful December aft pleading blameworthy to second-degree execution and serving 85 percent of her 10-year sentence. Her erstwhile fellow Nicholas Godejohn was recovered blameworthy of first-degree execution for sidesplitting Dee Dee and sentenced to beingness successful prison.
"When June 9 comes astir each year, I find myself successful a precise depressive state," Gypsy said of the solemn anniversary. "It's a hard time for me. I perceive to immoderate of her favourite songs, and I let my myself that clip to grieve. And I bash it privately due to the fact that I don't privation to beryllium judged. So that's thing that I bash for myself."
But she besides leans connected family, she continued, including her boyfriend.
"Ken has done this with maine a batch implicit the years, having a acceptable of supplication for my mom," Gypsy said, "and conscionable reasoning astir the bully times, blocking retired each of the antagonistic and conscionable honoring her representation successful that way."
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As Gypsy prepares to go a ma herself, with the babe owed successful January 2025, she can’t assistance but deliberation astir the narration her parent could person had with her grandchild had things been different.
“For me, it is heartbreaking,” she shared connected an October occurrence of The Viall Files. “Because I bash from clip to clip deliberation astir what could’ve been, and it makes maine sad. So, I benignant of enactment that successful the backmost of my mind.”
But she has her stepmom Kristy to capable that role.
“Kristy has go much of a parent to maine than my ain parent was,” she explained. “So Kristy is going to beryllium grandma.”
Throughout her pregnancy, Gypsy has fixed fans glimpses into her road to motherhood by sharing her symptoms, cravings, ultrasounds and babe bump photos. And portion she knows determination are critics who question whether she’s acceptable to a mom, she’s trying to tune retired the sound and absorption connected what’s genuinely important.
“All that matters is making definite that I’m healthy, the baby’s healthy, my narration with Ken is steadfast and we are moving guardant successful a affirmative way,” Gypsy said successful a July YouTube video. “It’s an astonishing feeling erstwhile your full satellite shifts, and abruptly it’s not astir you. It’s not astir thing different than the tiny small beingness that’s wrong you that you are present successful complaint of protecting. That small tiny beingness is simply a baby—a small tiny quality that’s yours and that you person to marque definite that you protect, you love, you instrumentality attraction of and each of the things that I wished I could’ve had erstwhile I was little.”
As she aboriginal enactment it, “All the things that I wanted successful a mother, I privation to springiness to this baby.”
Before Gypsy and Ken start gathering a babe album, cheque retired the couple's sweetest photos from their whirlwind rekindling:
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