Blanchard 32-year-old Blanchard shared with her followers that she was expecting over 11 weeks, in a 9-minute YouTube video on Tuesday. The actress described it as a “blessing. “

“Ken and I are expecting our very first child come January of 2025,” she shared with me. “We’re both extremely thrilled. It wasn’t planned in any way and was completely unplanned We’re both happy to begin this next phase of parenting. “

Blanchard has been engaged to Urker in the year 2018 and began dating him following her divorce from her former husband Ryan Anderson.

Blanchard and Anderson separated during the first quarter of this year, three months after getting married while she was behind bars for part as a suspect in her mother’s murder. Blanchard was sentenced to 10 years of prison time for second degree murder in connection to Clauddine “Dee Dee” Blanchard’s murder Clauddine “Dee Dee” Blanchard who was killed by her boyfriend Nicholas Godejohn. Blanchard has been released in 2000 after having served seven years in prison. Godejohn was sentenced to an indefinite sentence of imprisonment.

Blanchard announced on Tuesday she’s experiencing some of the symptoms of pregnancy, including mood fluctuations and a desire for food. She also spoke about the “amazing feeling ” when your life changes. “

“Suddenly, it’s not about you,” she said. “It’s absolutely nothing else but the tiny, tiny life within you, and that you’re responsible for safeguarding. “

“That little tiny life is a baby, a little tiny human that’s yours, that you have to make sure you protect, you love, you take care of,” said Blanchard who broke down crying. ” Everything I would like to could have experienced as an infant. … Everything aspect I wished for from the motherhood I’d like to share with this child. “

“I simply would like to be a great mother to my child. I’d like to be the same mother I was but not. “

Christopher Brito

Christopher Brito is a social media manager, as well as a well-known writer for CBS News.