Life got here full circle for Gypsy Rose Blanchard on December 28, 2024, when she gave delivery to her and her boyfriend, Ken Urker’s daughter on the identical day she was launched from jail the earlier 12 months.
The Gypsy Rose: Life After Lockup star, 33, and Urker welcomed their daughter, Aurora Raina Urker, at 9:48 a.m. on the aforementioned date. Their lady, per Individuals, weighed 6 lbs and 5 oz on the time of delivery, indicating her excellent well being.
Blanchard, a sufferer of Munchausen by proxy, spent 8 years in jail for her position within the 2015 homicide of her mom, Dee Dee, who subjected her to years of painful medical procedures regardless of her completely good well being.
Urker, 31, introduced Aurora’s arrival on Wednesday, January 1, by posting an Instagram image of Blanchard holding her within the hospital as he leaned in to get a greater take a look at their little bundle of pleasure. “Welcoming 2025 with the best present of all,” he wrote within the caption.
Earlier in December, Blanchard mentioned the rationale behind the couple selecting their then-soon-to-be-born daughter’s title as Aurora, saying each she and her boyfriend fancy the Northern Lights, also referred to as Aurora Borealis. Blanchard, who was beforehand engaged to Urker in 2018 however then cut up, mentioned, “I feel it was possibly in 2018, we wrote one another’s future youngsters’ names on items of paper, and Aurora is what we each picked with out even figuring out one another was choosing it.”
Blanchard shared that she and Urker have plans to see the Northern Lights sometime — possibly after she is off parole. “We’re going to go to Sweden.”
Blanchard and Urker first shared their being pregnant information in July, quickly after they acquired again collectively following the previous’s separation from her now ex-husband, Ryan Anderson. The instant succession of Blanchard’s separation announcement and being pregnant raised questions in regards to the father of her then-unborn little one, which Blanchard cleared on November 5.
Taking a prenatal paternity check, she revealed Urker to be her child’s father.
The identical month, Blanchard, who lately launched her memoir My Time to Stand, informed Those that she was excited to start her motherhood journey and provides her daughter all of the love and happiness she by no means knew rising up.
As for her future with Urker, Blanchard mentioned that although they’ve mentioned getting married, being dad and mom is their first precedence in the meanwhile.
Blanchard and Anderson’s divorce was finalized on December 9.
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