- Gypsy Rose Blanchard, known for her involvement in her mother’s murder, announced her pregnancy, expressing her desire to give her child a better education than the one she received.
- She revealed her baby is due in January, just over a year after she was released from prison in Missouri.
- Blanchard shared her aspiration to be a nurturing mother, aiming to provide everything she felt deprived of in her own childhood.
Gypsy Rose Blanchard, who recruited her ex-boyfriend to kill her mother after she was forced for years to pretend she was seriously ill, announced Tuesday that she is pregnant and hopes to give his child everything he lacked while growing up.
Blanchard said in a YouTube video that the baby is expected in January, just over a year after she was released from a women’s prison northeast of Kansas City, Missouri.
“I just want to be a good mother to my child,” she said, her voice shaking. “I want to be everything my mother wasn’t.”
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Blanchard’s case attracted national tabloid interest after reports emerged that her mother, Clauddine “Dee Dee” Blanchard, who was murdered in 2015, had essentially kept her daughter prisoner, forcing her to use a wheelchair and a feeding tube.
Gypsy Rose Blanchard speaks onstage during an event at The Grove on May 1, 2024, in Los Angeles, California. Blanchard, who recruited her ex-boyfriend to kill her mother after she was forced for years to pretend she was gravely ill, announced Tuesday that she is pregnant. (Phillip Faraone/Getty Images)
Dee Dee Blanchard duped doctors into performing unnecessary procedures by telling them her daughter’s medical records had been lost in Hurricane Katrina, Gypsy Rose Blanchard’s attorney said.
The lawyer said the mother suffered from Munchausen syndrome by proxy, a psychological disorder in which parents or guardians seek sympathy through their children’s exaggerated or invented illnesses.
The mother-daughter duo received charitable donations and even a home near Springfield, Missouri, from Habitat for Humanity.
When Gypsy Rose Blanchard was 23, she provided her then-boyfriend with a knife and hid in a bathroom while he stabbed her mother multiple times, according to the probable cause statement. Gypsy and Nicholas Godejohn, whom she met on a Christian dating site, then traveled by bus to Godejohn’s home in Wisconsin, where they were arrested.
Godejohn is serving a life sentence in Missouri. Prosecutors reached a plea deal with Blanchehard because of the abuse she suffered. She eventually found a way to forgive her mother and herself, she said shortly after her release while promoting the Lifetime documentary series, “The Prison Confessions of Gypsy Rose Blanchard,” and her own e-book, “Released: Conversations on the Eve of Freedom.”
Previous credits include the 2017 HBO documentary “Mommy Dead and Dearest” and the 2019 Hulu miniseries “The Act.”
In the new video, Blanchehard said she knew some people thought she wasn’t ready to be a mother, that it was too soon. But she was dismissive, saying no one is ever truly ready. for parenting.
“It’s an incredible feeling when your whole world turns upside down and suddenly it’s not about you anymore,” she said. “It’s about nothing but this little tiny life inside of you that you’re now tasked with protecting. And that little tiny life is a baby, a little tiny human being that’s yours that you have to protect, that you have to love, that you have to take care of. And all the things that I wish I had when I was little.”
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She said the baby’s father is Ken Urker, a prison pen pal who proposed to her while Blanchard was incarcerated. They later broke up and she married Ryan Scott Anderson, a special education teacher from Lake Charles, Louisiana. Shortly after her release from prison, Blanchard and Anderson separated and she is now back with Urker. Blanchard said the pregnancy was unplanned, but that she and Urker were both excited and determined to start a family together.
“I couldn’t be happier,” she said, while acknowledging that the relationship was unconventional. “Everything that’s happened to me in my life suddenly doesn’t matter anymore, because it’s all led me to who I am today and it’s all led me to this moment, right here and right now. And that’s a blessing.”
