Gypsy Rose Blanchard and boyfriend Ken Urker rang in 2025 by asserting the arrival of their first little one, daughter Aurora Raina.
Urker confirmed the kid’s start with an Instagram publish on the morning of New 12 months’s Day.
“Welcoming 2025 with the greatest gift of all,” he wrote alongside a photograph exhibiting him and Blanchard in a hospital room with their new child daughter.
The newborn’s title was confirmed by Individuals early Wednesday. In an interview with the outlet printed final month, Blanchard dismissed the notion that the title was impressed by Princess Aurora, the heroine of Disney’s “Sleeping Beauty,” or her stepmother’s canine, who occurs to be named Aurora Grace.
“Back whenever Ken and I were together seven years ago, both of us have a fascination with the Northern Lights, and the proper term is the Aurora Borealis,” she defined. “I think it was maybe in 2018, we wrote each other’s future kid’s name on pieces of paper and Aurora is what we both picked without even knowing each other was picking it.”
In accordance to TMZ, Aurora was born in Louisiana on Saturday, Dec. 28 ― precisely one 12 months after Blanchard was launched from jail after an eight-year sentence. In 2016, she was discovered responsible of aiding ex-boyfriend Nicholas Godejohn in killing her mom, Clauddine “Dee Dee” Blanchard.
Specialists imagine that Dee Dee Blanchard had a psychological sickness generally known as Munchausen syndrome by proxy, which resulted in her inducing and feigning sickness in her daughter after which subjecting her to painful medical procedures she by no means wanted.
Blanchard started corresponding with Urker whereas she was in jail and bought engaged to him to 2018. A 12 months later, the couple known as off the engagement, with Blanchard later blaming the cut up on the huge public scrutiny that ensued after her case impressed books, documentary movies and an Emmy-winning TV collection, “The Act.”
Blanchard went on to wed Ryan Anderson in 2022, however the pair separated in March 2024. She and Urker rekindled their romance shortly thereafter and introduced their being pregnant in July. Her divorce from Anderson was finalized final month.
In a since-deleted YouTube video posted that very same month, Blanchard addressed those that really feel she is “not ready to be a mother” due to her felony background.
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“All that matters is making sure that I’m healthy, the baby’s healthy, my relationship with Ken is healthy and we are moving forward in a positive way,” she stated, later noting: “All the things that I wanted in a mother, I want to give to this baby.”
