Gypsy-Rose Blanchard and her boyfriend, Ken Urker, are celebrating the brand new 12 months with the arrival of their child woman, Aurora Urker.
Ken took to his Instagram web page on Wednesday, January 1, to share the primary snap of his new child daughter. Within the pic, Blanchard is seen in a hospital mattress cradling Aurora, who’s carrying a pink hat, whereas Ken leans over and clasps their arms.
“Welcoming 2025 with the best present of all,” Ken captioned the photograph.
In accordance with TMZ, Blanchard confirmed she gave start on Saturday, December 28, in Louisiana. That makes the start date exactly one 12 months from the day Blanchard was launched from jail.
“Aurora is wholesome and we’re so blissful,” Ken advised the outlet.
Blanchard served seven years for her function within the 2015 stabbing loss of life of her mom, Dee Dee. Her then-boyfriend, Nicholas Godejohn, killed Dee Dee on June 9, 2015. Godejohn was sentenced to life in jail, whereas Blanchard was sentenced to 10 years in jail for second-degree homicide.
Rising up, Blanchard was a sufferer of Munchausen syndrome by proxy, a dysfunction the place a mother or father or guardian both makes up pretend signs or causes actual signs to make it appear to be the kid is sick.
Following her launch from jail in December 2023, Blanchard filed for divorce from her estranged husband, Ryan Anderson, and rekindled her romance together with her former flame, Ken. The couple introduced that they have been anticipating their first child collectively in July.
Since then, Blanchard has been offering updates on her being pregnant through social media, together with a gender reveal, child bathe, paternity take a look at, and ultrasound.
Talking with Individuals final month, Blanchard revealed that Ken got here up with the identify Aurora, noting, “There’s a complete backstory to it.”
“Some folks assume that it’s due to the Disney princess,” Blanchard mentioned, referring to Sleeping Magnificence. “Some folks assume that it’s as a result of Kristy’s [her stepmom] canine is called Aurora Grace. It’s not due to that.”
“Again every time Ken and I have been collectively seven years in the past, each of us have a fascination with the Northern Lights, and the correct time period is the Aurora Borealis,” she shared, recalling her first time courting Ken throughout her stint in jail.
“I feel it was perhaps in 2018, we wrote one another’s future child’s identify on items of paper and Aurora is what we each picked with out even figuring out one another was choosing it,” she added.