Gypsy Rose Blanchard has shared an replace on how she’s adapting to her new position as a mother.
Blanchard, 33, posted a photograph of her postpartum physique via her Instagram Story on Friday, January 3 only one week after welcoming her daughter.
“Virtually every week postpartum,” Blanchard captioned the publish. “Feeling extra energized.”
Blanchard and her companion, Ken Urker, welcomed a baby girl named Aurora on Saturday, December 28. Following the beginning, Urker took to social media to announce the information through Instagram on Wednesday, January 1.
“Welcoming 2025 with the best present of all 👼,” Urker shared alongside a photograph of him, Blanchard and their new child within the hospital.
The beginning befell in Blanchard’s residence state of Louisiana. “Aurora is wholesome and we’re so completely happy,” Urker instructed TMZ.
One yr earlier than her daughter’s arrival, Blanchard was launched after serving almost 9 years in jail. In 2016, she pleaded responsible to second-degree homicide within the demise of her mom, Clauddine “Dee Dee” Blanchard.
Nicholas Godejohn, Gypsy’s boyfriend at the time, conspired to kill Dee Dee with Gypsy, with Godejohn in the end stabbing her to demise. Godejohn pleaded responsible to first-degree homicide and was sentenced to life in jail.
Dee Dee is extensively believed to have suffered from Munchausen syndrome by proxy, outlined by the Cleveland Clinic as “a psychological well being situation the place you faux that somebody inside your care is sick once they aren’t.” All through her childhood, Gypsy was satisfied that she had varied illnesses, together with leukemia, muscular dystrophy and mind injury, and was instructed that she required a feeding tube and a wheelchair.
The 2017 documentary Mommy Lifeless and Dearest and the 2019 Hulu restricted collection The Act, through which Gypsy was performed by actress Joey King, each depicted the saga.
Gypsy and Urker beforehand obtained engaged in 2018 whereas she was nonetheless in jail. The couple cut up in 2019 and Gypsy later tied the knot with Ryan Anderson in July 2022 whereas she was behind bars. Their nuptials concerned a small ceremony with no friends.
Shortly after she was launched in December 2023, Gypsy introduced she and Anderson had cut up. She formally filed for divorce from Anderson in March 2024.
4 months later, Gypsy confirmed hypothesis that she was pregnant with Urker.
“I do know the rumors have been flying round for fairly a while now, and I’m completely happy to announce that I’m 11 weeks pregnant,” she stated in a YouTube video in July 2024. “Ken and I predict our very first baby come January 2025.”