Keke Palmer responds to trolls making fun of her appearance without makeup on:
“I’m beautiful in real life, because of who I am, not what I look like… I mean truly it’s insane to say anyone is ugly, but especially me. 🤣🤣🤣”
In a new episode of the Los Angeles Times’ The Envelope podcast, Palmer, 29, said her parents ensured she was never “exploited in ways that made me feel less as a person” while she grew up as a child actor.
“The exploitation, I don’t think it’s always this terrifying thing,” Palmer told co-host Yvonne Villareal in the episode, after speaking about themes of exploitation at the heart of her most recent movie, Jordan Peele’s Nope. “I think sometimes, many of the times, it is, but other times, it’s just kind of like a part of it.”
Palmer went on to explain that she thinks “everybody’s exploited in the entertainment industry.”
“I think it becomes dangerous when you are exploited against your will or you are exploited in the ways that you do not wish,” she told the outlet. “You look at a situation like Britney Spears, and she was exploited in ways that just totally were unfair and not aligned with probably what she truly wanted as a young woman.”
Palmer noted during the podcast appearance that the nature of exploitation in Hollywood is shown in Nope through Steven Yeun’s Nope character, who “goes from being the exploited Asian kid on a very popular American television show to then exploiting himself as an adult, years later.”
“When you look at my roles and the things that I played, especially as a kid, they were roles that could only make me feel proud about who I am,” Palmer said, referencing her roles as a child in 2006’s Akeelah and the Bee, 2007’s Jump In, 2008’s The Longshots and her television role in True Jackson, VP.
“So they really, they were careful about the ways in which I was being put on display that it was something that in the end, that I could be proud of,” the actor added of her parents’ approach to her roles growing up.
On Saturday, December 3, actress Keke Palmer announced she was expecting a child with boyfriend Darius Jackson while hosting Saturday Night Live the first time.
“There’s some rumors going around, people have been in my comments saying, ‘Keke’s having a baby, Keke’s pregnant,’ and I wanna set the record straight — I am!” Palmer said during her opening monologue before opening her coat to reveal her pregnancy.
She continued, “I gotta say, though, it is bad when people on the internet spread rumors about you y’all, but it’s even worse when they’re correct. I mean, like, I was trying so hard to keep it on the down low, cause I got a lot of stuff going on, you know? But honestly this has been the biggest blessing, and I am so excited. Guys, I’m going to be a mom.”
She wore a cropped shirt and jacket in the closing credits to emphasize her expecting state one more time as the episode ended.
Palmer was introduced to Darius by Sarunas, after she had a cameo on Insecure herself. They reportedly met at a Memorial Day Party in May of 2021, and went public with their relationship in August 2021.
At the time, Darius celebrated Palmer on her birthday, in a post that has since been deleted.
“You’ve been a blessing from above,” he wrote at the time. “Never would have expected summer 2021 to turn out the way it did, but here we are. I’m glad we were able to help each other throughout our lowest of times & show one another that what we are bringing to the table is everything that we got.”
In October of 2021, Palmer shared a video of her boyfriend which she has also since deleted, writing, “Without being too mushy because I HATEEEE THAT, it feels really nice to not be afraid to show this kind of care for someone that I don’t share the same blood with. I thought it could never happen, I can be quite guarded, but I appreciate you for being a safe space. I will always cherish what you have given me.”
The mass deletion of posts happened in March of 2022. There were rumors that they had split up, but in November this year, Palmer made an appearance on The Tamron Hall Show where she explained why she had taken down the photos even though their relationship isn’t a secret.
“It became more difficult to hide,” she said. “We spend all this time together, and he really is my closest friend, so it just becomes a thing where I’m not gonna hide something that makes me happy.”
She added, “It’s not gonna be everything you see, my job is my job, but at the end of the day this is somebody that is important to me so why not.”
Still up on her TikTok account, however, is a video of her leaning in for a kiss from Darius behind a fan, covered with the words, “Lady miss takes what she WANTS.”
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