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Keke Palmer is getting candid about the difficulties of being a single parent.
The One of Them Days actress, 32, shared a series of adorable photos alongside her 2-year-old son Leodis on Instagram, in which the mother-son duo can be seen smiling and laughing together. While the two are giggling and having fun together, Palmer gets honest about how tough parenthood can be.
“Omg I think my baby is a performer yall! Hahahahahah!!! Yall see him putting on for the camera???” Palmer began her lengthy caption.
“This is to all my mother’s doing it on their own,” she continued. “Not as a moment of pity or as a badge of hardship because being a mother is difficult, period. I just want to acknowledge you! It has been a really hard week for me and I honestly try very hard not to make TOO personal of posts.”
She went on to say that the point she’s trying to make is the same one she’s telling herself.
“You are doing good. You are capable. Your baby does love you. Your sacrifices are accounted for. God is with you. Your prayers will be answered, keep praying. God is with you,” said Palmer. “You are more than what you do for others. If no one has your back know that God does and that your baby is your greatest reflection of that. Don’t give up on you you’re worth it.”
Palmer also said that moms are “allowed to have a bad day, a bad week, a bad month” and that it’s okay if their kids see that.
“It’s okay that they see we are human and we communicate our feelings. I would see my mom sad, I would see my dad sad, I watched them be human and I think I’m a better person because of it,” she said. “Sending you the love I’d like to receive but don’t ask for cause you know, mommas. 😉 ❤️❤️❤️❤️.”
This past June, Palmer, whose real first name is Lauren, appeared on Scott Evans’ House Guest podcast and opened up about how she and her ex, Darius Jackson, decided on the name for their son.
“Darius actually made his name. He wanted both our names, which is so crazy,” she said, joking about how the practice of combining the parents’ names is seemingly common in Chicago. “So yeah, that was him trying to put like Darius and Lauren, like Leodis, like it was just too much, but I said, ‘Hey, let’s do it. It’s adorable.’ ”
“I was pregnant, anything went. It’s adorable, … and then also it sounded like an old name,” she said. “He sounded like he was marching with [Martin Luther King Jr.]. It’s like Leodis Andrellton Jackson. He’s gonna be on somebody’s campaign.”
