Gypsy-Rose Blanchard Welcomes First Baby, Daughter Aurora, with Boyfriend Ken Urker

Mar. 15, 2025

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Gypsy-Rose Blanchardis officially a mom.

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“Ken came up with that,“she said of Urker’s idea to name their daughter Aurora Raina. “There’s a whole backstory to it.”

“Some people think that it’s because of the Disney princess,” said Blanchard, referencing Sleeping Beauty. Into her early 20s, Blanchard was made to believe she was a child, and made frequent trips to Disney parks due to fraudulent claims her mother made to children’s charities.

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“Back whenever Ken and I were together seven years ago, both of us have a fascination withthe Northern Lights, and the proper term is the Aurora Borealis,” she shared of when she and Urker first dated during her time in prison. (Blanchard spent eight years in prison for her role in the 2015 murder of her mother Dee Dee, who subjected her daughter to years of painful medical procedures she never needed.)

“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,” Blanchard recalled.

She said they held on to that name and that memory even after she and Urker split and shemarried Ryan Anderson. “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.”

Pregnant Gypsy-Rose Blanchard and Boyfriend Ken Urker.Gypsy-Rose Blanchard/instagram

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source: people.com