Years before Gypsy-Rose Blanchard and Ken Urker welcomed their first child together, they were once engaged and planning a future together. However, Urker ended the relationship in 2019 while Blanchard was serving time in prison for her involvement in her mother Clauddine “Dee Dee” Blanchard’s murder.

Ken Urker revealed in an exclusive interview with PEOPLE that Dr. Phil's comments about Gypsy-Rose Blanchard inspired him to break up with her the second time. Urker and Blanchard previously called off their engagement twice before rekindling their romance in April 2024 and later welcoming a daughter,

Blanchard married Louisiana teacher Ryan Scott Anderson in 2022 while she was in prison. They were together through 2024, when she rekindled a relationship with Ken Urker, to whom she was previously engaged. She and Urker now have a daughter.

"I was very nervous to begin driving, and so I just wanna thank everybody for their encouragement," the Lifetime star said

Nearly a year after reuniting with his ex-fiancée Gypsy Rose Blanchard, Ken Urker revealed how “outside opinion and influence” caused their 2019 breakup. While promoting the second season of Gypsy Rose: Life After Lock Up,

Gypsy-Rose first met Ken while she was still in prison for the murder of her mother, Dee Dee Blanchard. In October 2018, he proposed but the pair ended their engagement before reu