Blanchard recently made an announcement accompanied by a video where she revealed that she is eleven weeks pregnant. She admitted that this pregnancy came as a complete surprise to her. The symptoms of her pregnancy started with unusual food cravings such as a daily need for orange juice, as well as an overwhelming hunger to eat everything in sight.
After experiencing ovulation issues, Blanchard was encouraged by her partner, Urker, to take a pregnancy test. It was then that everything clicked, and she realized that she was indeed pregnant. Despite the unexpected news, the 32-year-old mentioned that her pregnancy has been going smoothly so far, but she anticipates that there may be challenges ahead.
In a heartfelt moment around the 6:20-minute mark of the video, Blanchard tearfully expressed her desire to be a different parent than her own mother. She opened up about the mental and physical abuse she suffered for twenty years at the hands of her late mother, Dee Dee Blanchard, who had Munchausen syndrome by proxy. This disorder led her mother to fabricate illnesses in Blanchard for attention and sympathy.
In a shocking turn of events, Gypsy Rose, Blanchard’s daughter, orchestrated her mother’s murder in 2015. Gypsy Rose was sentenced to a decade in prison but was released on parole last December after serving approximately seven years.Blanchard shared her story with the world to shed light on her past traumas and to express her hopes for a brighter future for her unborn child.