Gypsy Rose Blanchard will get her baby a DNA test after she gives birth to her little girl. TMZ reported on Monday, August 19, that Blanchard, 32, ultimately decided to confirm the paternity of her daughter following her birth because it is less expensive to do so. A paternity test before birth can cost between $400 and $2,000 while completing a test after the birth costs between $150 and $200, per the American Pregnancy Association .
In July, Blanchard announced that she is pregnant and expecting her first child with boyfriend Ken Urker . The couple got together shortly after Blanchard filed for divorce from estranged husband Ryan Anderson . (The exes tied the knot in 2022 while Blanchard was still in prison for plotting the murder of her mother, Dee Dee Blanchard , in 2015 with her then-boyfriend, Nicholas Godejohn .
) Despite the murky timeline, Gypsy Rose has been candid about how Urker is the father of her child . “It was mid-March when I left Ryan,” she said in a sitdown interview with ABC News in July. “So this is absolutely 100 percent Ken’s baby.
There was never any question of paternity.” One month later, Anderson, 38, shared that he planned on getting a paternity test to confirm the paternity of Gypsy Rose’s baby. “I am going to have to get a DNA test,” he said during an August TikTok live.
“Just because it’s Louisiana law and I have to. It is what it is since we’re going through a divorce.” According to Louisiana law, if Gypsy Rose’s baby .