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Gypsy-Rose Blanchard reads popular parenting book weeks after welcoming baby Aurora

Gypsy-Rose Blanchard reads popular parenting book weeks after welcoming baby Aurora

Gypsy-Rose Blanchard has given fans a glimpse into her new life as a mother.

The Munchausen-by-proxy victim, 33, who recently welcomed her first child with her partner Ken Urker, is non reading the parenting book by Heidi Murkoff, What to Expect the First Year.

She held the bestseller in a snap posted to her Instagram Stories on Tuesday.

‘Leaning into motherhood in 2025,’ she wrote with a baby emoji.

Gypsy and Ken welcomed a daughter named Aurora Urker on December 28, exactly one year after she was released from prison, TMZ has reported.

‘Aurora is healthy and we are so happy,’ Ken told the publication. 

Gypsy-Rose Blanchard has given fans a glimpse into her new life as a mother

Gypsy-Rose Blanchard has given fans a glimpse into her new life as a mother

Gypsy and Ken welcomed a daughter named Aurora Urker on December 28 , exactly one year after she was released from prison, TMZ has reported

Gypsy and Ken welcomed a daughter named Aurora Urker on December 28 , exactly one year after she was released from prison, TMZ has reported

Gypsy was released from prison on December 28, 2023, after serving seven years behind bars for her part in the killing of her abusive mother, Claudine ‘Dee Dee’ Blanchard.

She spent her childhood posing as a wheelchair-bound invalid after mom Dee Dee shaved her daughter’s head, pumped her full of drugs and convinced the world she was suffering from leukemia and muscular dystrophy. 

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Their ‘inseparable’ bond ended when Gypsy burst free of her warped mom’s control in 2015 by letting her besotted internet boyfriend, Nicholas Godejohn, creep into their Springfield, Missouri, home to stab 48-year-old Dee Dee to death. 

She ultimately plead guilty to second-degree murder and spent nearly a decade locked up before she was granted early parole and released last December.

While in prison, she bonded with Ken after he sent her a letter; they started corresponding and things soon turned romantic, with him proposing in 2018.

But after the Hulu show The Act – which starred Joey King as Gypsy and Patricia Arquette as her mother – premiered a few months later and put an intense spotlight on Gypsy’s story, she admitted in her memoir that Ken couldn’t handle all the sudden attention. 

They ultimately split and she moved on with Ryan Scott Anderson, and they wed in July 2022.

'Aurora is healthy and we are so happy,' Ken told TMZ after their baby girl was born

‘Aurora is healthy and we are so happy,’ Ken told TMZ after their baby girl was born

She gave birth exactly one year after she was released from prison after serving seven years behind bars for her part in the killing of her abusive mother, Claudine 'Dee Dee' Blanchard

She gave birth exactly one year after she was released from prison after serving seven years behind bars for her part in the killing of her abusive mother, Claudine ‘Dee Dee’ Blanchard

Ryan was by her side when she was freed – but just three months later, news hit the web that they had split.

Soon after, it was reported that Gypsy had reconciled with her ex, Ken; she then revealed that they were expecting in July. 

In a YouTube video at the time, Gypsy spoke about how her horrific upbringing would affect her outlook on motherhood.

‘All the things that I wanted in a mother, I want to give to this baby,’ she stated. ‘I just want to be a good mother to my child, I want to be everything my mother wasn’t.’

Gypsy added that the pregnancy had given her ‘freedom in a way she never expected,’ and a newfound peace on ‘everything that has ever happened to her.’

She and her partner Ken (seen together) named their little girl Aurora Urker

She and her partner Ken (seen together) named their little girl Aurora Urker

Gypsy spent her childhood posing as a wheelchair-bound invalid after her mom, Dee Dee, convinced the world she was suffering from leukemia and muscular dystrophy

Gypsy spent her childhood posing as a wheelchair-bound invalid after her mom, Dee Dee, convinced the world she was suffering from leukemia and muscular dystrophy

‘It doesn’t matter because it all lead to me to be who I am today,’ she stated. ‘It all lead me to this moment right here right now.’

Last month, Gypsy opened up to People about the ‘backstory’ behind her baby’s name.

‘Ken came up with that. There’s a whole backstory to it,’ she dished. ‘Some people think that it’s because of the Disney Princess.

‘Some people think that it’s because Kristy’s dog is named Aurora Grace,’ she said of her step-mother, adding: ‘It’s not because of that.’

Instead, Aurora was selected because of the couple’s shared love of the Northern Lights.

‘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 said recalling her time dating Urker while imprisoned.

‘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.’

Gypsy said that she reminisced over the name when she split from Ken and married her now ex-husband Ryan.

‘When we had broken up [it was like], “Oh, Aurora is never going to be born.” A lot of people think the origin is one thing, but they don’t know that little story,’ she continued.

Gypsy added that once she’s off parole later this year, she and her family plan to see the Northern Lights for themselves at some point.

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