Gypsy Rose Blanchard is celebrating good news for her baby girl.
After welcoming daughter Aurora Raina Urker with fiancé Ken Urker in December, the Gypsy Rose: Life After Lockup star admitted there was one trait she did not want to pass along to her infant—and fortunately, it appears the 4-month-old is in the clear.
“We’re overjoyed to share that our sweet girl, Aurora, has tested negative for the rare genetic condition known as microdeletion 1q21.1,” Gypsy Rose wrote in a post on Instagram April 23, adding that she and Ken felt “such immense relief and gratitude.”
The health abnormality—which the reality star described having in her 2024 memoir My Time to Stand—is described as a chromosomal change that causes a small portion of chromosome 1 to be deleted in each cell, which “increases the risk of delayed development, intellectual disability, physical abnormalities and neurological and psychiatric problems,” according to the National Institute of Health’s MedlinePlus.
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