Pregnant Gypsy Rose Blanchard Reveals Daughter's Name astatine Baby Shower

Gypsy Rose Blanchard wasted nary clip getting connected with the remainder of her beingness aft spending 7 years of it behind bars.

The 33-year-old, who pleaded blameworthy to second-degree execution for her relation successful the decease of her parent Clauddine "Dee Dee" Blanchard, was released from prison connected Dec. 28, 2023. And if each she had done successful the 12 months since was write a book, oregon beryllium down for immoderate interviews, oregon prima successful a world show, oregon conscionable have dental surgery and chill—that timeline would person been understandable.

But Gypsy did each of those things. And she broke up with hubby Ryan Anderson, reunited with ex-fiancé Ken Urker and is pregnant with a daughter they plan to sanction Aurora Raina Urker.

"Back whenever Ken and I were unneurotic 7 years ago, some of america person a fascination with the Northern Lights, and the due word is the Aurora Borealis," the My Time to Stand author told People of the inspiration down their baby's name. "I deliberation it was possibly successful 2018, we wrote each other's aboriginal kid's sanction connected pieces of insubstantial and Aurora is what we some picked without adjacent knowing each different was picking it."

She was antecedently engaged to Ken, whom she met successful 2017 aft helium wrote to her successful situation (touched by what helium saw successful the harrowing HBO documentary Mommy Dead and Dearest), but helium broke up with her aft 2 years.

"Right earlier we were going to get married, helium ended the relationship," Gypsy shared successful her Lifetime bid Gypsy Rose: Life After Lock Up. "It devastated me. I deliberation helium beauteous overmuch gave maine each breakup enactment successful the book."

Then Ryan came into her life, and they joined successful July 2022. Once she got retired of prison, however, having served 7 years of a 10-year sentence, Gypsy came to the decision that she was "settling" erstwhile she took the plunge with Ryan. Three months aft her release, they were surviving apart.

"I person struggled the past 5 months to benignant of fig out, like, what bash you privation from me?" she told Keltie successful June, referring to her online critics. "I americium trying to beryllium enactment together, but past I'm trying to person my freedom. And I consciousness similar determination was nary grace for maine close now—trying to fig retired who I am, trying to fig retired the small missteps and mistakes, and learning from them—from the nationalist eye. And so, navigating that has been damn adjacent impossible." 

But, she concluded, "The lone happening I tin bash is beryllium my authentic self. I benignant of raised my hands up and said, 'You cognize what? I'm bushed of trying to acceptable myself into a container to appease you. I'm gonna beryllium myself. And if you similar me, great. If you don't, well, I don't cognize you anyway, truthful it doesn't fuss me.'"