“Ken [Urker] and I are expecting our very first child come January of 2025,” she continued. “This was not planned at all, it was completely unexpected, but we’re both very excited to take on this new journey of parenthood.”

She went on, “I know that there are going to be people who feel like I’m not ready to be a mother, and I don’t know if anyone’s really ready to be a mother.”

Blanchard and her ex-fiancé Ken Urker got back together in April, per People.

Here’s what we know about him so far:

Ken Urker hails from a large family

Urker was raised in a large household with five siblings, per E! News. “He has a big family and so do I,” Blanchard told the publication in 2019. “My father’s side is pretty big, so the wedding is probably going to have a lot, a lot of guests.”

How did Ken Urker meet Gypsy Rose Blanchard?

Per Blanchard’s interview with E! News, Urker was the one to reach out to her after watching the HBO documentary that detailed Blanchard’s life and the abuse she went through from her mother, Dee Dee Blanchard. “We became fast friends,” she told the outlet. “It was pretty soon after that that we started talking on the phone. We would spend hours on the phone. I talked to him like I had known him my whole life and vice versa.”

They got engaged in 2018 – but broke up in 2019

Per JustJared, Urker popped the question to Blanchard in 2018, about a year after they started dating. However, after going through an on-and-off relationship, they called it quits in 2019. Blanchard then married her now-ex-husband Ryan Scott Anderson.

When did Ken Urker and Gypsy Rose Blanchard get back together?

After her separation from Anderson, it was revealed that Blanchard was back with her ex-fiancé by April 2024, notes JustJared.

Who is Gypsy Rose Blanchard’s ex-husband?

According to Blanchard and Anderson’s marriage license, Anderson is from Lake Charles, Louisiana. He reportedly works as a middle school special education teacher, per People. Blanchard married Anderson in 2022 from behind bars, according to The Hollywood Reporter, but they split up earlier this year.

Why was Gypsy Rose Blanchard in jail?

For those who may not know who Blanchard is, she was convicted of second-degree murder in Missouri for the death of her controversial mother. On December 28 last year, Blanchard was released from prison on parole after pleading guilty to second-degree murder and being sentenced to 10 years in prison back in 2016.

In 2015, she conspired with Nicholas Godejohn, her then-boyfriend whom she met on a Christian dating site, to kill her mother, Clauddine “Dee Dee” Blanchard. Dee Dee is believed to have had a condition known as Munchhausen syndrome by proxy, forcing Gypsy Rose to undergo unnecessary medical treatments and present with illnesses and disabilities that she did not have. Gypsy Rose has since characterised her mother’s treatment as abuse.

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