Gypsy Rose Blanchard has given birth to her first child a year after she was released from prison, where she served eight years for her role in the 2015 murder of her mother, Dee Dee Blanchard.
Blanchard, 33, and her boyfriend Ken Urker, 31, welcomed a baby girl, Aurora Raina Urker, on Dec. 28, People has confirmed.
Gypsy Rose blandchard, whose mother subjected her to years of medical procedures she never needed, first revealed her pregnancy in July via a YouTube video.
"We're both very excited," she said, including Urker, who she was previously engaged to before splitting in 2018. "This was not planned at all. It was completely unexpected, but we're both very excited to take on this new journey of parenthood."
Blanchard, whose life has been in the spotlight for almost a decade since her mother was found stabbed to death in their home, said she no longer cares about "drama" now that she is expecting.
"Suddenly, it's not about you," she continued. "It's not about anything other than the tiny little life that's inside you that you are now in charge of protecting.
"And that little tiny life is a baby, a little tiny human that's yours. That you have to make sure you protect, you love, you take care of, and all of the things that I wished I could have had when I was little."
Earlier in December, She shared with People the meaning behind her daughter's name.
"Both of us have a fascination with the Northern Lights, and the proper term is the Aurora Borealis," she said. "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."
She added that she and Urker intended to see the Northern Lights "someday."
"After I'm off parole, we're going to go," she said. "We're going to go to Sweden."
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