She’s out of jail and all tatted up. After her surprise announcement of her split with her husband, many fans are asking if Gypsy Rose Blanchard and Ken Urker are back together. The two dated while the former was in prison, and eventually split short after.
Blanchard murdered her mother to escape years of abuse and plead guilty to second-degree murder and served a 10-year prison sentence; released on December 28, 2023. It was discovered that Blanchard was the victim of Munchausen Syndrome by proxy from her mother—a rare form of abuse in which a caregiver exaggerates or induces illness in a person under their care to gain sympathy and attention.
While she was in prison, Blanchard’s future husband, Ryan Scott Anderson, sent her a letter in 2020 and said that he never expected to hear back from her, but by May 2020, they were regularly corresponding. In 2022, Anderson and Blanchard obtained a marriage license in Chillicothe, Missouri. It wouldn’t last, however, because People discovered the couple split on March 28, 2024. Days after her split announcement, Blanchard was spotted on an outing with her ex-boyfriend Ken Urker.
So did she move on and are Gypsy Rose Blanchard and Ken Urker back together? Read more to find out.
Are Gypsy Rose Blanchard and Ken Urker back together?
No, Ken Urker’s mother Raina Williams confirmed to People that the two are just friends. “They are not back together,” Williams told the publication. “They’re very cool. Ken is just being a supportive friend to her and that’s it.”
The two met after Urker watched Mommy Dead And Dearest and wrote to her after he finished watching it with his mother. The two became engaged while she was in prison in 2019, but broke it off a year later.
“I think she’s a sweet girl,” Williams continued. “I think she’s made her mistakes and she’s trying to learn from them like anyone else. And I care a lot for Gypsy and I want to see good things happen for her.”
The two went to a tattoo parlor owned by Blanchards’s cousin Bobby Pitre, who confirmed that they got tattoos together.
Why did Gypsy Rose Blanchard and Ryan Scott Anderson break up?
Gypsy posted why she and her husband split in a social media post.”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 in a statement obtained by People from her private Facebook account. “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.”
In an interview with People in December 2023, Blanchard said she planned to marry the Louisiana middle school special education teacher again after her release so they could enjoy festivities with their loved ones.
“We do plan on having a reception/redo wedding with all of our family and our friends and the dress and the cake and everything because we deserve that. I deserve that. He deserves that,” she said. “Our prison wedding was just something to where we can make our vows to each other. It was something that meant something to us. And I think the party is kind of for everybody else and us, but mostly for everybody else.”
They did plan to have kids one day but telling them about her mother’s murder would have been a challenge. “We’re in love,” says Gypsy. But also, “It’s hard because I’m going into a new life and I’m newly married, and I’m going to have kids one day, and I’m going to have to explain to my kids why their grandmother on mommy’s side isn’t around. And that’s going to be a really hard conversation.”
