“Hey Son!!!!”
That’s how Keke Palmer kicked off a brand new Instagram put up on Monday afternoon, saying that she and boyfriend Darius Jackson welcomed a child boy over the weekend. “Born throughout Black Historical past Month, with a reputation to match,” shared the veteran star, 29, who additionally revealed that identify — Leodis Andrellton Jackson — together with two images of his face and a number of other intimate pictures of the couple within the hospital. “Welcome to the world child Leo.”
Leo is the couple’s first little one. Palmer revealed she was anticipating in a high-profile method upon taking the stage in December to ship her monologue as host of Saturday Evening Stay. “I’m particularly glad to be right here as a result of there’s some rumors going round,” Palmer stated. “Individuals have been in my feedback saying, ‘Keke’s having a child, Keke’s pregnant,’ and I need to set the report straight. I’m.” Palmer then pulled open her blazer to disclose a child bump. “I gotta say, it’s dangerous when individuals on the web unfold rumors about you, but it surely’s even worse after they’re right,” Palmer added with amusing.
Palmer teased the newborn boy’s identify final month throughout an look on her podcast, Child, That is Keke Palmer. The Nope star recommended they had been preserving the identify non-public till delivery however did describe it by saying “it offers American. It offers Black American storyline.” She added that they wished a “good, pure” identify. “We’re not going for something too distinctive. It’s not about to be Stone and Sand.”
See her Instagram put up and the primary photos of child Leo under.