Gypsy Rose Blanchard announces she’s expecting: “I want to be everything my mother wasn’t”
“All of the things that I wanted in a mother, I want to give to this baby,” Gypsy Rose Blanchard said in an announcement video.
By Christopher Brito
Blanchard 32-year-old Blanchard revealed to her fans that she was pregnant for 11 weeks in a nine-minute Youtube video on Tuesday. She called it an “blessing.”
“Ken and I are expecting our very first child come January of 2025,” she told me. “We’re both very excited. This was not planned at all, it was completely unexpected, but we’re both very excited to take on this new journey of parenthood.”
Blanchard was married to Urker in 2018 and began dating him after her divorce from her ex-husband Ryan Anderson.
Blanchard And Anderson broke up in the spring of this year just three months after they got married during her time in prison for her involvement in the murder of her mother. She was sentenced to ten years in prison for second-degree murder in connection with the murder of her mother, Clauddine “Dee Dee” Blanchard who was murdered by her boyfriend, Nicholas Godejohn. Blanchard has been released in the year 2000 after serving seven year in the prison. Godejohn received a life sentence imprisonment.
Blanchard revealed on Tuesday that she’s experiencing a few symptoms of pregnancy, like mood swings and cravings for food. She also talked about how it’s an “amazing feeling when your world shifts.”
“Suddenly, it’s not about you,” she added. “It’s not about anything other than the tiny little life that’s inside you, that you are now in charge of protecting.”
“That little tiny life is a baby, a little tiny human that’s yours, that you have to make sure you protect, you love, you take care of,” said Blanchard who began to cry.” Everything I wish I had experienced when I was a child. … Every thing I wanted from the life of a mother, I would like to offer to this child.”
“I just want to be a good mother for my child, I want to be everything my mother wasn’t.”
Christopher Brito is a social media manager as well as a popular writing content at CBS News.