Gypsy-Rose Blanchard has a pregnancy update!
The Gypsy Rose: Life After Lock Up star, 33, is taking her fans and supporters along on the journey as she and her boyfriend Ken Urker are preparing for the arrival of their first child.
To help her followers understand just how big the baby is, Blanchard shared a cute comparison.
“I’m 16 weeks and our little one is now the size of a banana!!” she captioned an Instagram carousel on Wednesday, Aug. 7.
In the first photo, Blanchard was seen posing in front of a banana display inside of a grocery store as she held the fruit up to her stomach. The next slide was a fruit-based “size guide” that showed a banana at the 16-week mark.
“We love watching my belly grow! More produce updates to come,” her caption continued.
Blanchard later corrected herself, telling fans in a follow-up Instagram post that her little one is actually the size of an avocado.
“*Correction* I’m 16 weeks and our little one is the size of an avocado! 🥑 I love watching my baby bump grow💗,” she wrote alongside a photo of her holding the fruit.
Over the weekend, the Louisiana native shared a since-deleted post of herself comparing her growing baby’s size to a different fruit during a grocery store visit.
“I’m 15 weeks and our little one is now the size of a mango!! We love watching my belly grow! More produce updates to come,” the Saturday, Aug. 3, post was captioned.
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For the photo, Blanchard wore a T-shirt with the word “wifey” written across.
Her choice in clothing drew backlash, with many in her comments section noting that she is still legally married to her now-estranged husband, Ryan Anderson.
The former couple wed in 2022 while she was in prison for the 2015 murder of her abusive mother.
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Following Blanchard’s Dec. 28 release, she and Urker revealed that their baby is expected to arrive in January 2025.
“This was not planned at all, it was completely unexpected, but we’re both very excited to take on this new journey of parenthood,” she said in a YouTube video announcement.
The sex of the baby will be revealed during an upcoming party, Blanchard teased during a TikTok Live.
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Urker and Blanchard were previously engaged, but ended their relationship in 2019 before she married Anderson.
In April, the Life After Lock Up star officially filed for divorce from Anderson, and two months later, Urker moved to Louisiana from Texas so the couple could continue their lives together.
During a YouTube Q&A in late June, Blanchard opened up about her split from Anderson.
“I know it’s gonna sound [like] a really cheesy answer, but the truth is when I divorced Ryan, and filed for divorce and I followed my heart to true love,” she said.
“I’m not going to say that I think that a baby will help a marriage or a relationship, because obviously there’s the added stress. I know that realistically, there’s going to be arguments too,” Blanchard told PEOPLE in July 2024.
After noting that she and Urker both came from divorced parents, she added, “When we have a child, we will stick together for the long haul. This is a forever thing because we don’t want our child to grow up in a broken home.”
