Pregnant Gypsy-Rose Blanchard Took a Pre-Birth Paternity Test to Prove Ken Urker Is Her Baby's Father: 'Very Unusual' (Exclusive)

Mar. 15, 2025

Gypsy Rose Blanchard Ryan Anderson Ken Urker.Photo:Phillip Faraone/Getty; Jamie McCarthy/Getty ; Ken Urker/Instagram

Phillip Faraone/Getty; Jamie McCarthy/Getty ; Ken Urker/Instagram

Anderson’s attorney, Randy J. Fuerst, has told PEOPLE that Blanchard’s test before birth was “highly unusual.”

“In the 40-something years of practice — of myself and other attorneys in this office for combined longer periods of time — we have never seen someone do a pre-birth paternity test because there is no need to do that,” Fuerst tells PEOPLE. “Usually you wait until the birth of the child and then the paternity test is done. And if it turns out, as we suspect, the child is her current boyfriend’s, then the birth certificate is changed with an order of the court subsequent to the birth of the child.”

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Ryan Anderson and Gypsy Rose Blanchard.Jamie McCarthy/Getty

Jamie McCarthy/Getty

“It’s highly unusual and unnecessary, and it’s a procedure that [sometimes] requires taking DNA from an unborn child,” Fuerst adds. “So that’s her business and she’s certainly welcome to do it. Ryan has no objection to it, but, just as his lawyers do, finds it very unusual.”

The source close to Blanchard also tells PEOPLE that the test she completed was “the non-invasive kind.”

According to theCleveland Clinic, “A NIPP test analyzes fetal DNA in the pregnant person’s blood. A provider will take a blood sample after your eighth week of pregnancy. They send the samples to a lab, where a specialist analyzes trace amounts of the fetus’s DNA in the blood sample and compares it to the DNA in a cheek swab from the potential non-birthing parent. An NIPP is 99.9% accurate and very safe.”

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Gypsy-Rose Blanchard and Ken Urker.Gypsy-Rose Blanchard/Instagram

Gypsy-Rose Blanchard/Instagram

Beau Brock, an attorney in Louisiana who has practiced family law, among other things, for 32 years, spoke with PEOPLE in July about why this Louisiana Law is in place, and how it will affect Blanchard, Urker and Anderson.

Aside from taking a DNA test to determine the father, Anderson could have signed an affidavit confirming that Urker is the father, ensuring Urker’s name will go on the birth certificate. However, as Brock told PEOPLE, “In these kinds of situations, we always recommend to do a DNA test because there are overlapping hookups that are possible. You don’t know.”

source: people.com