Gypsy Rose Is Dating Former Flame, Ken Urker — The Couple Is Expecting Their First Child
Gypsy Rose and Ken Urker are officially an item and are expecting their first child in January 2025.
Updated July 9 2024, 1:29 p.m. ET
Dating can be a real waking nightmare for everyone, but what if the huge gap in your relationship resume was due to the fact that you were convicted of second-degree murder? Imagine explaining to a potential suitor that your last relationship ended because you and your ex went to prison for murdering your mother. This would almost be funny if it weren't absolutely terrifying and 100 percent true. Enter Gypsy Rose Blanchard who is a former convict, and future divorcée.
One would have to be living in actual Narnia in order to have avoided the harrowing saga that was Gypsy's traumatic childhood. While testifying during her own trial, Gypsy admitted that helping to end her mother's life was the only way she felt she could escape the years of abuse. While in prison, Gypsy met a man and married him in July 2022. In December 2023 she was released and three months later, she filed for divorce. Is Gypsy Rose dating? Here's what we know.
Gypsy Rose is dating again, and technically he's a repeat offender.
Gypsy's estranged husband is not the first man she was engaged to. In 2017 a man named Ken Urker wrote a letter of support to Blanchard after watching the HBO Documentary Mommy Dead and Dearest. She told E! Online that after writing Urker back, the two became friends.
"I talked to him like I had known him my whole life and vice versa," she said. "It wasn't too late after that that I sent him a visitation form to come and visit me." It was during that first hangout that Urker kissed Gypsy.
Gypsy Rose Blanchard
Gypsy also told E! Online that she was the first person Urker ever said I love you to. It makes sense that in 2019, he would ask her father for permission to marry his daughter. In response to that, her father said "Welcome to the family, I hope you can take care of her." Unfortunately, the couple ended things for reasons they have never revealed. In the Lifetime docuseries The Prison Confessions of Gypsy Rose Blanchard, she said Urker "left me and it broke my heart.
Soon after, Gypsy was engaged to her now estranged husband though she wasn't completely done with Urker. In another dramatic moment of the docuseries, we learn that Gypsy and her now ex Ryan Anderson argued about Urker a few weeks ahead of their wedding. While speaking with Anderson on the phone from prison, Gypsy told him she still had feelings for Urker. Now that her marriage is over, Gypsy has returned to her old flame.
Apparently Urker was also in a relationship that recently ended. He described it as a mutual separation though we would be interested in hearing her side of the story. In a bizarre turn of events, someone told Blanchard's Parole Officer that Urker is a felon. Evidently two convicted felons cannot occupy the same space at the same time. Blanchard was quick to step on that damaging rumor. Urker has never been to prison.
Gypsy Rose is currently dating Ken Urker, and they are expecting a child.
On April 4, 2024, Page Six reported that Gypsy and Urker were out and about with a twist. They were spotted holding hands which sure two friends can do, but a former couple? That's different. This was mere days after announcing she and Anderson were separating, yet nothing could keep these exes out of the most romantic place to run errands: the Dollar General.
Despite giving off more than friends vibes, Gypsy and Urker took to TikTok in order to clear a few things up, per TMZ. The duo showed off a pair of matching wolf tattoos that were hot and fresh out the oven. "They're still healing," said Urker. At the time, he also assured everyone that Gypsy wasn't pregnant. "I'm on birth control" she shouted from behind him. Urker also shared that they haven't been intimate, which is usually an integral part of getting pregnant.
However, all of that now seems irrelevant as the two have taken their relationship public. More importantly, Gypsy announced she is pregnant in a YouTube video uploaded on July 9, 2024.
Gypsy Rose and Ken Urker are expecting their first child.
In a video uploaded to her YouTube account on July 9, 2024, titled “I’m Pregnant, My Journey So Far," Gypsy shared, “I'm happy to announce that I am 11 weeks pregnant. Ken and I are expecting our very first child come January 2025. We're both very excited, this was not planned at all, it was completely unexpected but were both very excited to take on this new journey of parenthood. I have already experienced the symptoms.”
Toward the end of the lengthy video, an emotional Gypsy said, “All of the things I wanted in a mother, I want to give this baby.” We're assuming Gypsy will continue providing updates on her pregnancy journey via YouTube.