Keke Palmer Gives Birth, Welcomes First Baby With Darius Jackson

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Pregnant Keke Palmer Shakes Her Baby Bump successful Dance Video

Baby, Keke Palmer is simply a mother!

The Nope prima revealed that she has welcomed her archetypal child, a babe lad named Leodis Andrellton Jackson, with fellow Darius Jackson.

"Hey Son!!!!" Keke captioned a photograph of her newborn babe connected Instagram connected Feb. 27. "Born during Black History Month, with a sanction to match." 

Her station besides gave a glimpse into her narration with Darius, penning that helium "always made maine playlists erstwhile we archetypal started dating, 'Someone' by El Debarge was a favorite. We became each other's idiosyncratic and made a someone, look astatine God!"

The histrion amazed fans by announcing that she was expecting during her Saturday Night Live opening monologue arsenic big connected Dec. 3. "There's immoderate rumors going around, radical person been successful my comments saying, 'Keke's having a baby, Keke's pregnant,' and I wanna acceptable the grounds straight—I am!" she said before unbuttoning her overgarment to amusement disconnected her bare bump. "I gotta say, though, it is atrocious erstwhile radical connected the net dispersed rumors astir you y'all, but it's adjacent worse erstwhile they're correct."

She continued, "I mean, like, I was trying truthful hard to support it connected the down low, origin I got a batch of worldly going on, you know? But honestly this has been the biggest blessing, and I americium truthful excited. Guys, I'm going to beryllium a mom."

Following her quality connected the show, Keke shared a station reflecting connected her journey.

"This twelvemonth has taken maine for a ride!" she wrote connected Dec. 4. "And however cool, my babe and I are already doing it each together. Thank you God! Thank you to my astonishing parents and household who continuously enactment me."

Keke besides thanked Darius, who she called her "other half," for "giving maine the things that lone existent unity tin bring."

She concluded her note, "Love is each we person isn't it, you bash thing successful this satellite unsocial and spot me, I americium not alone! Very grateful."

Darius—a fittingness instructor—shared the quality successful his ain mode on his Instagram Stories with a photograph of Keke wearing a sweater and sitting astatine a edifice arsenic she cradled her babe bump. He captioned the pic, "2023" alongside a reddish bosom emoji.

While she has kept her narration with Darius private, Keke did unfastened up astir her emotion beingness during an quality connected The Tamron Hall Show in November 2021.

"It became much hard to hide," she said of her determination to go Instagram authoritative with her boyfriend. "We walk each this clip together, and helium truly is my closest friend, truthful it conscionable becomes a happening wherever I'm not gonna fell thing that makes maine happy."

She added, "It's not gonna beryllium everything you see, my occupation is my job, but astatine the extremity of the time this is idiosyncratic that is important to maine truthful wherefore not."

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They went Instagram authoritative in August 2021, erstwhile Keke shared Polaroids of the 2 packing PDA astatine her 28th day party.

More recently, the Scream Queens star reflected connected how she balances her work portion inactive making clip for her idiosyncratic life.
 
"You're ever trying to fig retired however to support it," she exclusively told E! News in November. "It's not casual and I would not ever accidental oregon springiness the content that it is due to the fact that it's not. So, I'm ever moving to marque definite that I'm checking successful with myself arsenic overmuch arsenic I can."
 
Keeping booked and busy, Keke explained that that's the mode she likes it and feels "highly fulfilled from what I do."

She added, "For me, performing is an enactment of work and I consciousness bully successful that space. I consciousness bully successful the work of others."

While she expressed her tendency to prosecute different areas successful the industry, specified arsenic producing, Keke acknowledged that she needs to marque much clip for herself. 

"There's the idiosyncratic fractional of me, the broadside of maine that's not a performer, that's astatine location watching documentaries and TV shows and aged sitcoms," she said. "And that conscionable wants to beryllium with her household and bent retired with my cat, Jackie—that broadside of maine besides needs emotion too. Again, it's day-to-day equilibrium and checking successful and beryllium capable to support some of those parts of myself."

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