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Child Stars Compete connected Celebrity Game Face: Keke Palmer & More!
There was 1 infinitesimal during Keke Palmer's clip at Nickelodeon that had her saying Nope.
The histrion precocious recalled the overwhelming acquisition she had on a week-long cruise successful 2009, conscionable a twelvemonth aft rising to fame connected the show True Jackson, VP. As she explained, Nickelodeon paid for the abrogation for Keke and her household nether the information that the then-child prima walk a fewer hours signing autographs.
"I felt similar I was walking astir successful a SpongeBob suit that I couldn't instrumentality off. I was trapped," Keke told The Hollywood Reporter successful an interrogation published Nov. 16. "I couldn't permission my country without idiosyncratic coming up to maine calling maine 'True Jackson.'"
She added, "What you are, to everyone, is conscionable a character…just portion of their experience."
Keke shared that she yet fainted from anxiousness during the trip.
Following her clip on True Jackson, VP—which ended successful 2011 erstwhile Keke turned 18 years old—the Nope star actress revealed she took efforts to physique a nationalist persona to withstand the effects of fame.
"I'm conscionable saying that I'm not similar that each the time," she explained. "I've taken those flamboyant and absorbing aspects of myself and learned however to usage them successful a abstraction that has go a vocation for me. I'm Walt Disney. That's Mickey Mouse."
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Moreover, she issued a reminder that there's much to her than conscionable her public personality.
"I'm a quirky artist, but I'm an artist, and it's important for radical to recognize that Keke is conscionable a portion of who I am," she said. "It's been a winding roadworthy of trying to fig retired however to bash what I emotion but besides beryllium extracurricular of this caricature."
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