How Keke Palmer Is Preparing for Motherhood—and the Metaverse

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Pregnant Keke Palmer Teases Potential Baby Names

Both of Keke Palmer's worlds are expanding these days.

That would beryllium the existent one, successful which the Nope star is expecting large with her and Darius Jackson's archetypal childand the virtual 1 with her caller Meta series Are We There Yet?

"It shows you each that's retired there, the antithetic things that you tin do, however you tin interaction and archer antithetic stories," Palmer exclusively told E! News' Francesca Amiker about the show, which finds her sitting down with starring creators to explore the endless possibilities of the metaverse.

For Palmer, who was already a longtime instrumentality of simulation games like Meta Horizon Worlds, doing the amusement reminded her "of what exertion tin connection erstwhile we really walk clip successful the abstraction and we usage the resources there. The things that we tin bash are incredible."

But that's lone the second-biggest crushed wherefore Palmer is excited astir the future.

The 29-year-old confirmed she was expecting successful December by debuting her babe bump mid-monologue while hosting Saturday Night Live, and a period later she nonchalantly shared that she's having a boy while talking astrology connected The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.

Palmer says she hasn't had overmuch successful the mode of weird gestation cravings since her small Pisces-or-Aries came onboard, but she has rediscovered her puerility emotion of pickles.

"When I was small I utilized to portion pickle juice, truthful I don't deliberation that's that unique," the Illinois autochthonal said, adding with a laugh, "It's precise state of me. So I would accidental I've gone down representation lane with pickles. But different than that, everything has been mean and I have not had thing crazy."

Palmer has been getting much bushed than usual, adding, "So present I'm feeling myself beryllium a small spot much like, 'Oh, I could instrumentality a nap dead-set successful the mediate of the afternoon, wherefore not?' Where before, it mightiness not beryllium thing that I would usually do."

While the histrion has opened the level to societal media commentary connected a fewer occasions, specified arsenic erstwhile she gleefully revealed past period that she was newly blemish-free, she's besides found a wellspring of enactment among the personage ma set.

"Tamera Mowry and Lauren London both person been conscionable like, 'My doorway is open,'" Palmer shared. "That's the happening that I've seen from astir different radical who work successful the manufacture and person families, conscionable however blessed they are for maine and coming to maine with unfastened arms. They've each been precise encouraging."

And erstwhile she's a ma in this world, she doesn't expect her involvement successful the metaverse to wane.

"Who knows wherever we're going?!" Palmer noted. "You mightiness find maine successful the gaming world."

Where, incidentally, not adjacent the entity is the limit.

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"I deliberation 1 of the biggest things that excites america with Are We There Yet? is each the opportunities that radical person to make caller careers," she said. "Whether it's graphic design, gaming, storytelling—the database goes on, due to the fact that this is simply a abstraction that is inactive new. The more we proceed to speech astir it and fto radical cognize astir it, the much that we tin get antithetic faces successful determination to really beryllium a portion of it."

And, ultimately, she added, "really conscionable alteration and germinate the world."

Watch the archetypal 2 episodes of Are We There Yet? on YouTube now.

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