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Gypsy Rose Blanchard is officially back with her ex-fiancé amid her divorce from estranged husband Ryan Anderson.
Blanchard, 32, confirmed her romance with Ken Urker by sharing a series of PDA photos with TMZ from the couple’s weekend at New Orleans’ Jazz Fest.
“After reconnecting earlier this month, we realized that our love for each other is simply undeniable, and life is too short to not take a chance,” a newly-blonde Blanchard told the outlet. “We have a history that made for the perfect foundation for a new beginning. We are together and in a wonderful place in our relationship. We know it is going to be a long road ahead but are excited for the future.”
Before her release from prison in December 2023, Gypsy Rose — who was the victim of mom Dee Dee Blanchard’s Munchausen by Proxy for years — served seven years behind bars for helping in the 2015 murder of her mother. (Nicholas Godejohn, Gypsy Rose’s then-boyfriend, stabbed Dee Dee to death. He is serving life in prison without the possibility of parole.)
Gypsy Rose first met Urker through a prison pen pal program during her time in prison, getting engaged in 2019, according to TMZ.
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After her split from Urker, she tied the knot with Anderson in 2022 while still in prison.
As Gypsy Rose navigated the white-hot glare of the spotlight following her December 2023 release from prison, she publicly defended her marriage to Anderson from nay-sayers in an Instagram post that immediately went viral.
“[People are] jealous because you are rocking my world every night…yeah, I said it, the D is [fire],” she wrote in January. “Happy wife happy life.”
Two months later, however, Gypsy Rose revealed that she and Anderson had separated.
“People have been asking what is going on in my life. Unfortunately my husband and I are going through a separation and I moved in with my parents home down the bayou,” she wrote via a private Facebook post in March, per People. “I have the support of my family and friends to help guide me through this. I am learning to listen to my heart. Right now I need time to let myself find … who I am.”
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