Abhay Singh
Gypsy-Rose Blanchard, 33, took a moment to contemplate the potential alternate paths that her life could have taken. She shared her thoughts during a recent appearance on The Bachelor star Nick Viall’s podcast, The Viall Files, which aired on Wednesday, October 16.
Expecting a daughter with her boyfriend Ken Urker, Blanchard was asked to consider the hypothetical connection that her late mother Clauddine “Dee Dee” Blanchard could have formed with her unborn baby girl, sparking a reflection on what might have been.
“Kristy is going to be grandma,”
Blanchard said “I mean, for me, it is heartbreaking because I do, from time to time, think about what could have been, and it makes me sad,”
“So, I kind of put that in the back of my mind. And so, I mean, there has been questions on social media. Everybody asked the question, you know, ‘What are you gonna tell your daughter whenever grandma isn’t around?’ My response to them is that Kristy has become more of a mother to me than my own mother was,” Gypsy persisted, bringing up Kristy Blanchard, her stepmother.
“Kristy is going to be grandma,” Blanchard added.
The expecting mother served eight of her ten-year prison term for plotting her mother’s murder with her then-boyfriend, Nicholas “Nick” Godejohn, before being freed in December 2023.
On June 9, 2015, Godejohn fatally stabbed Dee Dee in her Springfield, Missouri, home while Blanchard, whose mother had convinced her she had a string of ailments and had put her through years of needless medical procedures, was waiting in the restroom.
The general consensus is that Blanchard was the victim of Munchausen syndrome by proxy, a rare kind of abuse where a caregiver makes a kid appear unwell in order to get pity and attention.
Blanchard’s dad Rod Blanchard later married Kristy
Blanchard’s father Rod married Kristy after divorcing Dee Dee, and the two of them have two children together. Blanchard stated on Wednesday that she tries not to let other “negative comments” that she finds online about being a mother disturb her.
She said “The one thing that just irritates me is the fact that people really have this stigma on, you know, new parents that have come from a life of trauma and the stigma of, oh, you know, ‘You had been through this, so you’re gonna continue on that cycle with your child.’ “
“I think that’s so unfair to put that on someone because I’m a person that I’m taking the steps to make sure that I’m mentally stable enough to be a parent and heal myself, And so going forward, you know, I might not be a perfect parent, nobody is. But I am gonna do the best I can and make educated choices with my child and have the support to do so.” She added.
Blanchard’s remarks follow her and partner Urker’s announcement on social media that they were expecting a girl in August.
The previous month, Gypsy had declared her pregnancy, and she subsequently talked to PEOPLE about the moment she became aware of her pregnancy.
“I was very surprised,” she stated.
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