Who Is Gypsy Rose Blanchard's Ex-Fiancé Ken Urker? All About Their Rumored Rekindled Romance
Gypsy Rose Blanchard was previously engaged to a man named Ken Urker, who was her pen pal
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Gypsy Rose BlanchardGypsy Rose Blanchard is reconnecting with her ex-fiancé Ken Urker.
After Blanchard announced her split from husband Ryan Scott Anderson in March, she and Urker sparked reconciliation rumors in April after his mother, Raina Williams, confirmed the two got lunch and went to a tattoo parlor together. Now, TMZ is reporting that the pair are officially back together.
While serving time in prison for her role in the killing of her mother, Dee Dee Blanchard, Blanchard was in a relationship with Urker, who first started as a pen pal.
Though Urker has largely stayed out of the spotlight, Blanchard has revealed a few details about him and their relationship over the years.
In her Lifetime docuseries The Prison Confessions of Gypsy Rose Blanchard, Blanchard gets incredibly candid about her former romance with Urker, noting how he was one of her first major heartbreaks.
Here’s everything Blanchard has said about her ex-fiancé through the years.
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He wrote to Gypsy after seeing the HBO documentary Mommy Dead and Dearest
Speaking with E! News in 2019, Blanchard revealed that Urker first contacted her after watching the HBO documentary Mommy Dead and Dearest, which detailed Blanchard’s early life and the abuse she endured from her mother Dee Dee.
After he wrote her a “letter of support,” Blanchard said they started corresponding back and forth on a weekly basis. “We became fast friends,” she told the publication. “It was pretty soon after that that we started talking on the phone. We would spend hours on the phone. I talked to him like I had known him my whole life and vice versa.”
He kissed her the first time he visited her in person
Blanchard told E! News it wasn’t long after they started talking that she sent him a visitation form to see her in prison. “He came and it was kind of a funny story but within the first thirty minutes he leaned over and gave me the most wonderful kiss of my whole life,” she said of their first interaction.
“The kiss he gave me was quite passionate. I looked at him and was like, 'I didn't even know you liked me like that', and he said ‘Yeah, I have for a while'. And I'm like, ‘I have for a while too,' ” Blanchard added, noting that she was the first girl he ever said “I love you” to.
He proposed in October 2018
Though the news of their engagement didn’t come out until 2019, Blanchard told E! News that Urker proposed the previous October. “This was something we had discussed for a while, so it wasn't out of the blue,” she told the publication about their engagement. “We bounced around the idea, we have a pretty solid thing going and we're pretty sure this is what we want. So, on the October visit, he held my hands close and told me how much I meant to him and he's like, 'I would really, really be honored if I could have your hand in marriage,' and I said yes.”
He gave her two engagement rings
Blanchard revealed that her first engagement ring from Urker was a silver band. However, when it got confiscated in prison, he bought her a new one. “We are going back and forth between if we are going to have a wedding ceremony in here,” she said about having their nuptials in or out of prison at the time. “So, if we do decide to have the small ceremony inside, we're going to have both. So it's not like I'm getting cheated out of wearing the dress, or my father getting to walk me down the aisle, I will have that on the outside when I come home.”
He comes from a big family
Though Blanchard was Dee Dee’s only child, she told E! News that Urker came from a very large family. “He is one of five,” she said. “He has a big family and so do I. My father's side is pretty big. It's something I am relieved about because it's like, a lot of people in here they don't always have that family support.”
She added that Urker’s family had been super supportive of their relationship. “I was very concerned when we first started dating, because I was like, 'Oh my god your family is going to think of me like I'm in prison for murder!' And he was like, 'No my mom has watched the documentary and my grandma has watched the documentary and my grandma, my brother and everybody has watched it so they know your story and they do have a heart for you.' So I didn't have to explain everything, it was sort of already known when I came into the picture.”
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He and Gypsy had an on-and-off-again relationship
In August 2019, the pair briefly called off their engagement before reuniting. However, their reunion was short-lived as in August 2022 The Springfield News-Leader reported that Blanchard had married a man named Ryan Scott Anderson of Saint Charles, Louisiana, that June.
Gypsy says her breakup with Ken broke her heart
In her new Lifetime docuseries, Blanchard gets incredibly candid about her relationship with Urker. “Every time I get close to someone, they leave me,” Blanchard tells the camera, adding that she was still very young when she got close to Ken and had a lot to learn about relationships.
“He left me and it broke my heart,” she said of the end of their engagement.
Gypsy was in contact with Ken weeks before her wedding to Ryan
In the Lifetime docuseries, it’s revealed that Blanchard and Anderson had a major fight ahead of their nuptials as Blanchard opened up about her lingering feelings for Ken. During a phone conversation between the pair, Gypsy even reveals that she had a dream that she left Anderson for Ken.
It eventually comes out that Blanchard was somewhat recently in contact with Ken, even though she previously told Anderson they hadn’t been in contact for “months.” The news caused a major strife in their relationship at the time.
She got matching tattoos with Ken after her split from Ryan
After Blanchard announced her split from Anderson, Urker's mother confirmed to PEOPLE that he and Blanchard got lunch and went to a tattoo parlor. Blanchard's cousin, Bobby Pitre, who owns the parlor, confirmed to PEOPLE the pair got tattoos together.
Though Urker's mother clarified that they were "not back together" at the time, later that month, TMZ reported that the two were officially an item again.
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