Pregnant Gypsy Rose Blanchard says it’s ‘heartbreaking’ her mother will never know her daughter

Blanchard said she thinks “about what could have been, and it makes me sad” on the latest episode of the podcast “The Viall Files”

• Pregnant Gypsy-Rose Blanchard admitted it’s “heartbreaking” that her mother Dee Dee won’t have a relationship with her baby daughter during an appearance on the latest episode of The Viall files podcast

• “Every now and then I think about what could have been, and it makes me sad,” the social media personality said

• Gypsy was released from prison in December 2023 after serving eight years of her 10-year sentence for conspiring to kill her mother with her then-boyfriend Nicholas “Nick” Godejohn

Gypsy-Rose Blanchard reflects on what could have been.

Speaking about the latest episode of The bachelor star Nick Viall The Viall files podcast on Wednesday, Oct. 16, Blanchard, 33 — who is expecting a baby girl with her boyfriend Ken Urker — was asked if she had thought about the relationship her late mother Clauddine “Dee Dee” Blanchard might have had with her baby.

“I mean, for me, it’s heartbreaking because every now and then I think about what could have been, and it makes me sad,” Blanchard said.

“So I’ve kind of put that in the back of my mind. And so I mean there’s been questions on social media. Everyone was asking the question, you know, ‘What are you going to say to your daughter when Grandma’s not here?’ all around?’ My answer to that is that Kristy has become more of a mother to me than my own mother,” Gypsy insisted, referring to her stepmother Kristy Blanchard.

“Kristy is going to be a grandmother,” Blanchard added.

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The expectant mother was released from prison in December 2023 after serving eight years of her 10-year sentence for conspiring to kill her mother with her then-boyfriend Nicholas “Nick” Godejohn.

Dee Dee was stabbed to death by Godejohn in her home in Springfield, Missouri, on June 9, 2015, while Blanchard — whose mother had subjected her to unnecessary medical procedures for years and convinced her she had a series of diseases — waited in the bathroom. .

It is widely believed that Blanchard was a victim of Munchhausen syndrome by proxy; a rare form of abuse in which a guardian exaggerates or induces illness on a child to gain sympathy and attention.

After divorcing Dee Dee, Blanchard’s father Rod Blanchard married Kristy, with whom he shares two children.

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When it comes to other “negative comments” Blanchard receives online about her motherhood, she said Wednesday that she tries not to let them bother her.

She told the podcast, “The one thing that just irritates me is the fact that people really have this stigma about, you know, new parents who have come out of a life of trauma and the stigma of, oh, you know, ‘You I’ve been through this, so you continue that cycle with your child.’ “

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“I think it’s so unfair to impose that on anyone, because I am a person, that I’m taking the steps to make sure I’m mentally stable enough to be a parent and heal myself,” continued them. “And so in the future, I may not be a perfect parent, no one is. But I’m going to do my best and make informed choices with my child and get the support to do that.”

Blanchard’s comments come after she and boyfriend Urker revealed they were expecting a baby girl with a sweet social media post in August.

Gypsy announced she was pregnant the month before and later spoke to PEOPLE about the moment she found out she was pregnant.

“I was very surprised,” she said at the time.

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