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

 Blanchard, 32, informed 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 baby 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 courting him following her separation from ex-husband Ryan Anderson.  

Blanchard and Anderson break up up earlier this 12 months, three months after they wed whereas she was in jail for her position 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 12 months after seven years in jail. Godejohn was sentenced to life in jail. 

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

“Instantly, it isn’t 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, a little bit tiny human that is yours, that you need to ensure you shield, you’re keen on, you maintain,” mentioned Blanchard, who began to tear up.” All the issues I wanted I may have had after 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 baby, I wish to be the whole lot my mom wasn’t.”