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Keke Palmer Admits Where She Stands With Ex Darius Jackson
Keke Palmer is thankful to this man—Will Smith, that is.
The Nickelodeon alum precocious shared that she considered getting emancipated from her parents astatine 17 years aged portion moving arsenic a young Hollywood star. However, she changed her caput aft an unexpected telephone telephone from the Hitch actor, who gave her a ringing portion she was connected the acceptable of True Jackson, VP, which ran from 2008 to 2011.
“I get a telephone from this really, truly obscure number," Keke shared connected the Nov. 19 occurrence of The Toast podcast. "And I'm like, ‘What? This is weird, I'm not answering this.’"
After missing the call, the Nope actress—who shares lad Leodis, 21 months, with ex Darius Jackson—realized she had a voicemail from Will, who encouraged her to powerfulness done aft learning of her concern from her lawyer.
"Hey, Keke. It's Will,’” Keke said portion impersonating the Oscar winner. “‘We're implicit present doing Karate Kid with [my son] Jaden. I conscionable privation to fto you cognize I talked to [your lawyer]. He fto maine cognize everything you're going through, and I privation you to cognize sometimes it's hard being the first, but you'll get through. Just support staying focused, emotion connected your family, and y'all gonna beryllium good.’"
At the time, Keke felt that being a kid prima was a marque caller acquisition for everyone successful her life, which near her feeling somewhat isolated from her family.
“I did person problems with my parents during that clip of conscionable them not knowing what I was going through,” she explained. “So, it wasn’t wholly peachy keen.”
"This was a hard happening for maine that I felt meant that I had to propulsion my household away,” she said earlier noting the assistance she had on the way. “I've ever had a batch of people—whether they're notable names oregon they're my attorney—that I had a bully community, that besides my parents made definite I was around, that would promote assemblage and not similar dissension and america breaking apart."
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But contempt the trouble of increasing up successful Hollywood, Keke expressed gratitude for the effort her ma and dada enactment successful to support her arsenic a young star.
“I bash deliberation that my parents did a truly large occupation trying to explicate to maine what it was I was doing astatine these companies truthful I didn’t instrumentality things personal,” she shared. “How they marque you consciousness astir yourself and your enactment and however that is connected to your esteem are truly important things to speech through. I deliberation my ma did a truly bully occupation trying to assistance maine process those things.”
Now, Keke is forging her ain way arsenic a ma herself. To larn much astir her parenthood travel with lad Leodis, work on.
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This is What Dreams Are Made Of...
The Nope actress recapped her travel to Rome with her lad Leodis Jackson successful an Instagram carousel featuring prime clip with the family, Lizzie McGuire throwbacks and an adorable reflector infinitesimal with her “Leo Rising” toddler.
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Mother's Day Message
Palmer gushed implicit “Master Leodis” successful a heartwarming Mother’s Day post, teasing her tendency for an adjacent bigger family.
“I emotion being a ma much than I thought I would, and that was a batch already,” she shared connected Instagram. “I privation a full shot team.”
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First Words connected Set
Palmer was shocked successful an adorable video of Leodis saying the connection “mama” for the archetypal clip portion connected set. As she enactment it, “I’m not crying YOU ARE.”
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Baby's First Birthday
The arrogant parent wished her “Leo Beo” a blessed archetypal day successful her affectional post, sharing that helium has fixed her beingness purpose.
“You marque my beingness truthful worthy living,” she wrote successful February 2024. “I’d unrecorded a cardinal lives. Even with each the symptom and suffering 1 has to acquisition here. I volition bash it implicit and implicit again, due to the fact that I cognize that I’d beryllium with YOU!”
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Santa's Little Helper
“Santa” and her “favorite small helper” dazzled successful a sparkly reddish formal and the cutest elf costume.
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True Love
Palmer was each smiles arsenic she danced with her babe boy, calling him “the emotion of my life,” successful her Instagram caption. “I can’t hold until you’re older and we tin spell to the movies together, camp, improv, binge tv shows, navigator and each the different endless things I imagination of doing with you."
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Popcorn, Popcorn
Leo giggled at his ma arsenic she recited the drawback phrases of viral TikTok sensation Pinkydoll, repeating “popcorn, popcorn.”
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From the Archives
Palmer couldn’t assistance but propulsion this sweet moment retired of the archives, sharing a video of the joyful ma showering her babe with kisses.
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Mommy and Me Yoga
This mama was acceptable for Mommy and Me yoga successful an adorable skit, but babe Leo wasn’t excessively definite astir the full yoga situation…
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First Mother's Day
“Happy Mother’s Day,” Palmer wrote connected the milestone day, “to a MUVAAAAA.”
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April Fools' Day Manifestation
This was not an April Fools’ joke…Keke Palmer whitethorn person manifested the commencement of her archetypal baby, thinking back to erstwhile she “’joked’ astir being preggers” conscionable 1 twelvemonth prior.
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