Inside Pregnant Gypsy Rose Blanchard and Ken Urker’s Road to Baby

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Gypsy Rose Blanchard said she knew Ken Urker was the one the day they met.

And even though they first laid eyes on each other in 2017, and a whole lot of life happened for Gypsy in the meantime, it turns out she was spot-on about their meant-to-be potential.

The 33-year-old, who reunited with Ken this past spring, revealed July 9 that she is pregnant with their first child together. She shared the happy news on Instagram with a maternity shoot featuring sonogram photos, a tiny sweater and various other adorable signs of a baby on board. The following month, Gypsy announced the couple is expecting a baby girl and that they’re “over the moon” to start their family. 

It’s a new chapter the mom-to-be wasn’t expecting—not only because she noted on YouTube the pregnancy was “not planned at all,” but also because she didn’t anticipate rekindling her romance with Ken in the first place.

“I didn’t have it on my bingo card,” Gypsy told E! News’ Keltie Knight in May about getting back together with her ex-fiancé roughly five years after they first broke up. “And here we are.”

But even when she and Ken were in contact more “sparingly here and there,” she said, “we still remained friends. And it wasn’t until I filed for divorce that I really realized that spark, that connection, is even better than I expected.”

Gypsy continued, “I’ve matured, he’s grown. So I think right now is the time in our lives, that it’s the right time, right place—everything.”

And Gypsy is certain Ken will continue to be by her side as they navigate parenthood, just as he’s been there for her as she’s gone through the complicated process of grieving for her mom,  Clauddine “Dee Dee” Blanchard.

Gypsy, who has spoken extensively about suffering years of physical and psychological abuse while living under her mother’s roof, was released from prison in December after pleading guilty to second-degree murder and serving 85 percent of her 10-year sentence. Her former boyfriend Nicholas Godejohn was found guilty of first-degree murder for killing Dee Dee and sentenced to life in prison.

As Gypsy prepares to become a mom herself, with the baby due in January 2025, she can’t help but think about the relationship her mother could have had with her grandchild had things been different.

“For me, it is heartbreaking,” she shared on an October episode of The Viall Files. “Because I do from time to time think about what could’ve been, and it makes me sad. So, I kind of put that in the back of my mind.”

But she has her stepmom Kristy to fill that role.

“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,” Gypsy said in a July YouTube video. “It’s an amazing feeling when your whole world shifts, and suddenly it’s not about you. 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 and that you have to make sure that you protect, you love, you take care of and all of the things that I wished I could’ve had when I was little.”

As she later put it, “All the things that I wanted in a mother, I want to give to this baby.”