Keke Palmer Reveals She's Pregnant, Expecting First Baby with Boyfriend During SNL Hosting Debut - Yahoo Entertainment

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Keke Palmer is going to beryllium a mom!

The actress, 29, is pregnant and expecting her archetypal babe with fellow Darius Jackson, she revealed portion hosting Saturday Night Live this play for the archetypal time.

"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 consecutive — I am!" Palmer exclaimed, ripping unfastened a agelong grey overgarment to uncover her increasing babe bump connected the Studio 8H stage.

"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. 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?" she continued. "... But honestly this has been the biggest blessing, and I americium truthful excited. Guys, I'm going to beryllium a mom."

Palmer added: "Even though immoderate radical consciousness a small weird astir maine having a babe origin I was a kid actor, I conscionable wanna say, look, I'm 29, I'm grown, I person sex, I ain a home, I stormed the Capitol connected January 6, you know? Things adults do."

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Palmer has chiefly kept details of her narration with Jackson nether wraps. When appearing connected The Tamron Hall Show last November, she opened up astir becoming "Instagram official" with Jackson, though the photos with her fellow are nary longer connected her page.

"It became much hard to hide," she said of choosing to station photos with Jackson astatine the time. "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."

"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," Palmer added.

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Speaking astir Jackson, Palmer noted that he's "very industry-adjacent."

"I've ever been idiosyncratic that hasn't wanted excessively overmuch manufacture worldly successful my life, he's precise industry-adjacent, meaning helium understands it but that's not what he's about," she explained.

That aforesaid month, the Nope prima shared a video connected TikTok with Jackson successful which she held up a instrumentality to seemingly fell her and her fellow kissing. "Lady miss takes what she WANTS😏," she wrote with the clip.

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In March 2020, Palmer spoke to Harper's Bazaar astir wherefore she likes to support her dating beingness private.

"I don't truly bash narration worldly online, chiefly due to the fact that I don't cognize however I would bash it without looking, like, cheesy oregon something, you know?" she told the outlet. "Yes, I'm a 100 percent authentic, but determination is worldly that I bash prevention for household and friends."