Gypsy Rose Blanchard Gives Birth on Anniversary of Prison Release Date

Exactly one year after she was released from prison, Gypsy Rose Blanchard became a mother. 

Blanchard, 33, and her partner, Ken Urker, welcomed a baby girl named Aurora on Saturday, December 28. 

Urker broke the news via Instagram on Wednesday, January 1. “Welcoming 2025 with the greatest gift of all 👼,” Urker shared alongside a photo of him, Blanchard and their new baby in the hospital. 

The birth happened in Blanchard’s home state of Louisiana. “Aurora is healthy and we are so happy,” Urker told TMZ. 

One year before her daughter’s arrival, Blanchard was released after serving nearly nine years in prison. In 2016, she pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in the death of her mother, Clauddine “Dee Dee” Blanchard. 

Nicholas Godejohn, Gypsy’s boyfriend at the time, conspired to kill Dee Dee with Gypsy, with Godejohn ultimately stabbing her to death. Godejohn pleaded guilty to first-degree murder and was sentenced to life in prison. 

DeeDee is widely believed to have suffered from Munchausen syndrome by proxy, defined by the Cleveland Clinic as “a mental health condition where you pretend that someone within your care is sick when they aren’t.” Throughout her childhood, Gypsy was convinced that she had various ailments, including leukemia, muscular dystrophy and brain damage, and was told that she required a feeding tube and a wheelchair.

The saga was depicted in the 2017 documentary Mommy Dead and Dearest and the 2019 Hulu limited series The Act, in which Gypsy was played by actress Joey King. 

Gypsy and Urker previously got engaged in 2018 while she was still in prison, though the couple split a year later. Gypsy then got married to Ryan Anderson while she was behind bars.

Shortly after she was released in December 2023, Gypsy announced she and Anderson had split. She officially filed for divorce from Anderson in March 2024. 

Four months later, Gypsy announced she was pregnant. 

“I know the rumors have been flying around for quite some time now, and I’m happy to announce that I am 11 weeks pregnant,” she said in a YouTube video at the time. “Ken and I are expecting our very first child come January 2025.”

Gypsy noted that the pregnancy was “not planned” but said that she and Urker “are both very excited to take on this new journey of parenthood.”

Before announcing her pregnancy, Gypsy exclusively told Us Weekly how excited she was to start a family.

“Absolutely I want kids someday,” she told Us in May 2024. “I think that I’m going to be a good mother. I think Ken would be a wonderful father, and so we’ll see what the future holds for us.”