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

Gypsy-Rose Blanchard is officially a mom.

The reality TV star, 33 — whose experience as a victim of Munchausen by proxy made national headlines — and her boyfriend Ken Urker have welcomed their first baby together, a daughter named Aurora Raina Urker.

Urker shared a snap of the new mom cradling their baby in an Instagram post on Wednesday, Jan. 1, with the caption, "Welcoming 2025 with the greatest gift of all 👼."

The photo shows Blanchard laying in a hospital bed as she and Urker hold their newborn. The two parents are looking down lovingly at their baby, who is wearing a pink hat.

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While chatting with PEOPLE in December, Blanchard said that she can't take credit for her baby girl's name.

"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.

"Some people think that it's because Kristy's dog is named Aurora Grace," Blanchard said of her stepmom. "It's not because of that." The name, she explained, was inspired by something else.

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"Back whenever Ken and I were together seven years ago, both of us have a fascination with the 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 she married 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."

Now back together with Urker and officially divorced from Anderson, Blanchard is happy to be nesting and making meaningful plans for her growing family. "Some day we're going to see it," she said of the natural light display that inspired their baby name choice. "After I'm off parole we're going to go. We're going to go to Sweden."

"For this upcoming year, I'm really excited just to kind of obviously bring her into the world and have a lot of family time together," said Blanchard, author of new memoir My Time to Stand. "Obviously, I'll be celebrating being off of parole, so Kristy and dad are going to be the babysitter while Ken and I go to a nice vacation somewhere."

Blanchard and Urker first shared in July that they're expecting their first baby together after having rekindled their romance. Blanchard had filed to divorce her estranged husband Ryan Anderson in April.

Blanchard took a renatal paternity test and publicly confirmed on Nov. 5 that Urker is the father of her baby and not Anderson.

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