Gypsy Rose Blanchard is pregnant

AND COLD WIND CHILLS IN THE 20S TODAY KATIE THANK YOU. WE ARE WATCHING BREAKING DEVELOPMENTS IN A CASE THAT SHOCKED THE PEOPLE OF SPRINGFIELD, MISSOURI AND EVENTUALLY THE WHOLE COUNTRY. GYPSY ROSE BLANCHARD, THE YOUNG WOMAN OF COMMUNITY BELIEVED TO BE DISABLED, WAS ACCUSED AND CONVICTED IN THE MURDER OF HER MOTHER. WELL, SHE WAS RELEASED FROM PRISON OVERNIGHT JUST HOURS AGO AFTER EIGHT YEARS BEHIND BARS. KMBC NINE’S ROB HUGHES IS LIVE FOLLOWING THIS STORY, AND ROB, THIS REALLY WAS A HIGH PROFILE CASE. IT DEFINITELY WAS GOOD. GOOD MORNING TO YOU CODY. OF COURSE, THIS IS A STORY THAT’S BEEN TOLD COUNTLESS TIMES IN INTERVIEWS, DOCUMENTS, AND EVEN A MINISERIES ON HULU. NOW, FOR SEVEN YEARS, GYPSY ROSE BLANCHARD WAS AT THE CHILLICOTHE CORRECTIONAL FACILITY. SERVING OUT A SENTENCE FOR SECOND DEGREE MURDER. NOW, GYPSY STORY FIRST CAME TO LIGHT BACK IN 2015. THAT’S WHEN SHE AND HER BOYFRIEND WERE ARRESTED AND THEN ACCUSED OF KILLING HER MOTHER, DEE DEE BLANCHARD. BEFORE THAT. WELL, THE COMMUNITY BELIEVED THAT GYPSY ROSE WAS DISABLED AND TERMINALLY ILL. HOWEVER, DURING HER TRIAL, GYPSY TESTIFIED THAT IT HAD ALL BEEN AN ACT AND THAT HER MOTHER HAD FORCED HER TO PRETEND SHE WAS SICK AND EVEN UNDERGO UNNECESSARY MEDICAL PROCEDURES, ALL AS PART OF A FRAUD SCHEME, INVESTIGATORS SAY. DEE DEE BLANCHARD LIKELY SUFFERED FROM A MENTAL ILLNESS CALLED MUNCHAUSEN BY PROXY SYNDROME, THAT CAUSED HER TO FAKE GYPSY’S ILLNESS TO GET ATTENTION. THE GYPSY TESTIFIED THAT SHE CONVINCED HER BOYFRIEND AT THE TIME, NICHOLAS GODEJOHN, TO STAB DEE DEE TO DEATH AT THEIR HOME IN SPRINGFIELD TO ESCAPE FROM HER MOTHER’S ABUSE. GODEJOHN WAS. CONVICTED OF FIRST DEGREE MURDER, AND HE IS SERVING A LIFE SENTENCE. IN 2016, GYPSY WAS SENTENCED TO TEN YEARS IN PRISON, BUT UNDER MISSOURI STATE LAW, SHE QUALIFIED FOR EARLY RELEASE AFTER SERVING 85% OF HER

Gypsy Rose Blanchard, who served eight-and-a-half years for helping to kill her abusive mother, announced Tuesday that she is set to become a mother herself.Blanchard shared the news on social media that she and her ex-fiancé, Ken Urker, are expecting their first child."We're both very excited," she said in a YouTube video. "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 said her life has shifted now that she's expecting and she no longer cares about "drama.""Suddenly it's not about you," she said. "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," she added as she got emotional. "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."Blanchard spent her childhood and early adulthood believing she suffered from a host of medical ailments, including leukemia, muscular dystrophy and asthma, when in reality she was a victim of Munchausen syndrome by proxy, a rare syndrome in which a caregiver feigns or exaggerates illness in someone to elicit attention or sympathy.The young woman became the subject of tabloid fascination after her mother Dee Dee Blanchard was found stabbed to death in 2015 in their home near Springfield, Missouri.An investigation uncovered not only the elder Blanchard's role in her daughter's childhood of feigned illnesses but also the fact that her daughter convinced her then-boyfriend Nicholas Godejohn to kill her mother as she slept as a way to escape the abuse.Gypsy Rose Blanchard pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in 2016. Prosecutors eventually sentenced her to 10 years in a plea deal due to the unique circumstances.She was released in December 2023 and told CNN soon after "For me, getting to prison was a chance to start a life for myself in terms of gaining independence from everyone."Media attention has continued since her release.She and Urker met and got engaged while she was in prison but split in 2022.Soon after their breakup, Blanchard married Louisiana teacher Ryan Anderson in a prison wedding ceremony in July 2022 before parting ways in March.She and Urker then rekindled their romance.Blanchard said they look forward to welcoming their baby in January.CNN's Elizabeth Wagmeister and Harmeet Kaur contributed to this report.

Gypsy Rose Blanchard, who served eight-and-a-half years for helping to kill her abusive mother, announced Tuesday that she is set to become a mother herself.

Blanchard shared the news on social media that she and her ex-fiancé, Ken Urker, are expecting their first child.

"We're both very excited," she said in a YouTube video. "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 said her life has shifted now that she's expecting and she no longer cares about "drama."

"Suddenly it's not about you," she said. "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," she added as she got emotional. "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."

Blanchard spent her childhood and early adulthood believing she suffered from a host of medical ailments, including leukemia, muscular dystrophy and asthma, when in reality she was a victim of Munchausen syndrome by proxy, a rare syndrome in which a caregiver feigns or exaggerates illness in someone to elicit attention or sympathy.

The young woman became the subject of tabloid fascination after her mother Dee Dee Blanchard was found stabbed to death in 2015 in their home near Springfield, Missouri.

An investigation uncovered not only the elder Blanchard's role in her daughter's childhood of feigned illnesses but also the fact that her daughter convinced her then-boyfriend Nicholas Godejohn to kill her mother as she slept as a way to escape the abuse.

Gypsy Rose Blanchard pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in 2016. Prosecutors eventually sentenced her to 10 years in a plea deal due to the unique circumstances.

She was released in December 2023 and told CNN soon after "For me, getting to prison was a chance to start a life for myself in terms of gaining independence from everyone."

Media attention has continued since her release.

She and Urker met and got engaged while she was in prison but split in 2022.

Soon after their breakup, Blanchard married Louisiana teacher Ryan Anderson in a prison wedding ceremony in July 2022 before parting ways in March.

She and Urker then rekindled their romance.

Blanchard said they look forward to welcoming their baby in January.

CNN's Elizabeth Wagmeister and Harmeet Kaur contributed to this report.

Gypsy Rose Blanchard is pregnant

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