Soon after being released from prison for plotting to kill her violent mother, Gypsy Rose Blanchard became pregnant.

 Gypsy Rose Blanchard, who orchestrated the murder of her mother after enduring years of being forced to pretend she was gravely ill, announced on Tuesday that she is pregnant and hopes to provide her child with everything she lacked growing up.

In a YouTube video, Blanchard revealed that her baby is due in January, a little over a year after her release from a women's prison northeast of Kansas City, Missouri.

“I just want to be a good mother for my child," she said, her voice catching. "I want to be everything my mother wasn’t.”

Blanchard’s case garnered national tabloid interest after it was revealed that her mother, Clauddine “Dee Dee” Blanchard, who was murdered in 2015, had essentially kept her daughter prisoner, forcing her to use a wheelchair and a feeding tube.

Dee Dee Blanchard convinced doctors to perform unnecessary procedures by claiming her daughter’s medical records had been lost in Hurricane Katrina, according to Gypsy Rose Blanchard's attorney.

The attorney said the mother had Munchausen syndrome by proxy, a psychological disorder where caregivers seek sympathy through the exaggerated or fabricated illnesses of their children.

The mother-daughter duo received charitable donations and even a home near Springfield, Missouri, from Habitat for Humanity.

When Gypsy Rose Blanchard turned 23, she supplied a knife to her then-boyfriend and hid in a bathroom while he repeatedly stabbed her mother, according to the probable cause statement. Gypsy and Nicholas Godejohn, whom she met on a Christian dating website, then took a bus to Godejohn’s home in Wisconsin, where they were arrested.

Godejohn is serving a life sentence in Missouri. Prosecutors cut Blanchard a deal due to the abuse she had endured. She eventually found a way to forgive her mother and herself, she said after her release while promoting the Lifetime docuseries, “The Prison Confessions of Gypsy Rose Blanchard,” and her e-book, “Released: Conversations on the Eve of Freedom.”

Earlier coverage of her story includes the 2017 HBO documentary “Mommy Dead and Dearest” and the 2019 Hulu miniseries “The Act.”

In her new video, Blanchard acknowledged that some people believe she isn’t ready to be a mother and that it is too soon. But she dismissed these concerns, saying no one is ever truly ready for parenthood.

“It’s an amazing feeling when your whole world shifts and suddenly it’s not about you,” she said. “It’s not about anything other than this tiny little life that’s inside you that you are now in charge of protecting. And that little tiny life is a baby, a little tiny human that’s yours and that you have to make sure that you protect, you love, you take care of. And all of the things that I wish I could have had when I was little.”

She said the baby’s father is Ken Urker, a prison pen pal who proposed while she was incarcerated. Although they later broke up and she married Ryan Scott Anderson, a special education teacher from Lake Charles, Louisiana, she and Anderson split soon after her release. Blanchard is now back with Urker. The pregnancy wasn't planned, but both she and Urker are excited and committed to creating a family together.

“I couldn't be happier," she said, while acknowledging the unconventional nature of their relationship. "Everything that has ever happened to me in my life suddenly doesn’t matter because it all led me to be who I am today and it all led me to this moment right here, right now. And that’s a blessing.”