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Gypsy-Rose Blanchard credits her boyfriend Ken Urker for naming their unborn daughter.
During the Munchausen by proxy victim's baby shower last month, the parents-to-be revealed that they would be calling their first child, Aurora Raina.
And on Tuesday, 33-year-old Gypsy-Rose — who served eight years in prison after being convicted of the second-degree murder of her mother Dee Dee Blanchard — opened up to People about the 'backstory' on her future baby's name.
'Ken came up with that. There's a whole backstory to it,' she said. 'Some people think that it's because of the Disney Princess.
'Some people think that it's because Kristy's dog is named Aurora Grace,' she said of her step-mother, adding: 'It's not because of that.'
Instead, Aurora was selected because of the couple's shared love of the Northern Lights.
Gypsy-Rose Blanchard credits her boyfriend Ken Urker for naming their unborn daughter, Aurora Raina
'Back whenever Ken and I were together seven years ago, both of us have a fascination with the Northern Lights, and the proper term is the Aurora Borealis,' she said recalling her time dating Urker while imprisoned.
'I think it was maybe in 2018, we wrote each other's future kid's name on pieces of paper and Aurora is what we both picked without even knowing each other was picking it.'
Blanchard explained that she reminisced over the name when she split from Urker and married her now ex-husband Ryan Anderson.
'When we had broken up [it was like] "Oh, Aurora is never going to be born." A lot of people think the origin is one thing, but they don't know that little story,' she said.
And now that she and Uker are weeks away from welcoming their baby girl, the couple are planning their future together.
Gypsy-Rose said that once she's off parole next year, she and her family plan to see the Northern Lights for themselves at some point.
The term parole is when a prisoner is released early to serve the remainder of their sentence in their own community with set regulations.
Gypsy-Rose previously revealed that she'll be off parole by June 2025, thus completing her 10-year sentence for second degree murder.
'Some day we're going to see it. After I'm off parole we're going to go. We're going to go to Sweden,' she explained.
'For this upcoming year, I'm really excited just to kind of obviously bring [my daughter] into the world and have a lot of family time together.
'Obviously, I'll be celebrating being off of parole, so Kristy and dad are going to be the babysitter while Ken and I go to a nice vacation somewhere.'
Gypsy-Rose shocked fans when she announced in July that she was expecting a child with her boyfriend via her YouTube channel.
Baby Aurora Raina is expected to be born sometime in January 2025.
'Ken came up with that. There's a whole backstory to it,' she gushed; seen in November
Instead, Aurora was selected because of her and Urker's shared love of the Northern Lights; seen in August
In September, the Louisiana native took to her Instagram page to share a 20-week ultrasound scan showing off her baby girl
'Back whenever Ken and I were together seven years ago, both of us have a fascination with the Northern Lights, and the proper term is the Aurora Borealis,' she said; seen in November
Urker recently took to Instagram to share a sweet photo of he and Blanchard celebrating their baby shower.
'Celebrating love and our little miracle on the way [heart-emoji] A huge thank you to everyone who made our baby shower so incredible,' he penned in the caption.
In September, the Louisiana native took to her Instagram page to share a 20-week ultrasound scan showing off her baby girl.
'Our sweet baby girl, for our 20 week ultrasound,' she wrote above the snap.
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