Gypsy Rose Blanchard introduced she’s pregnant and anticipating her first child with boyfriend Ken Urker. 

 Blanchard, 32, advised her followers she was 11 weeks pregnant in a 9-minute YouTube video on Tuesday, calling it a “blessing.”  

“Ken and I expect our very first little one come January of 2025,” she mentioned. “We’re each very excited. This was not deliberate in any respect, it was utterly sudden, however we’re each very excited to tackle this new journey of parenthood.”

Blanchard was beforehand engaged to Urker in 2018 and began relationship him following her separation from ex-husband Ryan Anderson.  

Blanchard and Anderson break up up earlier this yr, three months after they wed whereas she was in jail for her function within the homicide of her mom. She had been sentenced to 10 years for second-degree homicide over the demise of her mom, Clauddine “Dee Dee” Blanchard, who was killed by Blanchard’s then-boyfriend, Nicholas Godejohn. Blanchard was launched final yr after seven years in jail. Godejohn was sentenced to life in jail. 

Blanchard mentioned on Tuesday she’s feeling a number of the being pregnant signs, together with meals cravings and temper swings. She additionally mirrored on the “wonderful feeling when your world shifts.” 

“Out of the blue, it is not about you,” she mentioned. “It isn’t about something aside from the tiny little life that is inside you, that you’re now in command of defending.” 

“That little tiny life is a child, somewhat tiny human that is yours, that you need to be sure to defend, you’re keen on, you maintain,” mentioned Blanchard, who began to tear up.” All the issues I needed I might have had once I was little. … All the issues that I needed in a mom, I wish to give to this child.” 

“I simply wish to be a great mom for my little one, I wish to be all the things my mom wasn’t.”