Gypsy-Rose Blanchard Opens Up About Her ‘Amazing’ Birth Story for the First Time — and What Didn’t Go to Plan (Exclusive)

Mar. 15, 2025

Gypsy-Rose Blanchard (L); Blanchard and Ken Urker.Photo:Lifetime (2)

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“As a first-time mom, my birth story was amazing,” she tells PEOPLE exclusively, opening up about life now with almost 8-week-old daughterAurora Rainaand partnerKen Urkeras she gears up forseason two ofGypsy Rose: Life After Lock Up, premiering March 10 on Lifetime.

“I had started dilating at 34 weeks and five days, so my OBGYN was keeping a close monitor on me, so we were having visits every week,” explains Blanchard. “So when I went in for, I want to say it was my 35th week, the expectation was that we were going to do an induction day, which would’ve been January 16th.”

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Gypsy-Rose Blanchard.Lifetime

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She continues, “It was an elected induction because Ken’s mom was coming in from Austin. She really wanted to be there for the birth. So I’m like, why not? Well, because I was already dilating so much, I didn’t make it to my induction date nor my due date.”

From there, says Blanchard, doctors “went ahead and gave me the epidural, had the Pitocin drip, and it went really quickly after that and I didn’t feel a thing. The worst part of the whole birth experience was the numbing injection that they give.”

When push came to shove, “I didn’t feel anything. No screaming, no nothing," she says. “We just pushed and within 15 minutes she was born.”

Aurora was born exactly a year to the day that Blanchard was released from Chillicothe Correctional Facility, where she’d served eight years of a 10-year sentence forher role in the murder of her mother.

Now a new mom to a daughter herself and eagerly awaiting the end of her parole in June, she says she couldn’t be happier.

“I honestly just feel like, getting to watch her grow and getting to see her personality develop over time is the best part of motherhood so far. I read all this stuff and I’m kind of tracking to see what comes next. So it’s exciting, the newness of each thing.”

Gypsy Rose: Life After Lock Upseason 2 premieres Monday, March 10 at 9 p.m. ET on Lifetime.

source: people.com