Gypsy Rose Blanchard, speaking exclusively with PEOPLE, talks about her feelings and concerns amid her first pregnancy with boyfriend Ken Urker.
"All the things that I wanted in a mother, I want to give to this baby," Blanchard, who is 11 weeks pregnant, tells PEOPLE"I was very surprised," Blanchard, 32, tells PEOPLE over Zoom on Tuesday, July 9 — just a few hours after she announced she was expectinghome in Cut Off, La., Blanchard turned to her stepmother and asked her to read it."Can you make sure this test says what I think it says?" she recalls asking.
Blanchard and Urker rekindled their relationship after having previously been engaged while Blanchard was incarcerated for her role in the murder of herGypsy-Rose's Stepmom Kristy Blanchard Reunited Her and Ken Urker. Now He's Moving to La. for Her Pregnant Gypsy-Rose Blanchard Cries as She Says She 'Wants to Be Everything My Mother Wasn't' as a New Mom
"That's not something that will go away overnight," Blanchard says of the crime. "That is a forever journey of forgiveness that I will be on. I have not made peace with what happened. That's something that I'm working toward in therapy, but nobody could put a timestamp on when that healing will be done or will happen or when I'll feel better about something. It's a forever process.
Her stepmother says the couple will likely raise the baby in her home until they can move in together when Blanchard's parole ends in 11 months. Blanchard says that although she's nervous about potty training in the future, she's excited about seeing her baby's milestones.
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