Keke Palmer Is Pregnant With Her 1st Child: Watch ‘SNL’ Reveal

There’s a brand new VP on the town! Keke Palmer introduced throughout her Saturday Night time Reside internet hosting debut that she is pregnant together with her first baby.

“There’s some rumors going round, folks have been in my feedback saying, ‘Keke’s having a child, Keke’s pregnant,’ and I wanna set the document straight — I’m,” Palmer, 29, stated throughout her Saturday, December 3, monologue on SNL, earlier than opening up her beige trenchcoat to point out off her naked child bump.

The True Jackson, VP alum additional gushed about her “superior 12 months” and impending motherhood journey throughout her opening phase on the late-night present.

“I imply, like, I used to be attempting so laborious to maintain it on the down low, ‘trigger I obtained numerous stuff occurring, you already know?” Palmer joked on Saturday. “Folks saved coming as much as me [and saying,] ‘Congratulations.’ I’m like, ‘Sssh, can y’all cease, I obtained a liquor sponsorship on the road. Let the examine clear after which we are able to get to the rattling child bathe!’”

She continued: “However, actually this has been the most important blessing, and I’m so excited. Guys, I’m going to be a mother! Despite the fact that some folks really feel just a little bizarre about me having a child ‘trigger I used to be a toddler actor, I simply wanna say, ‘Look, I’m 29, I’m grown, I’ve intercourse [and] I personal a house. … You realize, issues adults do.’”

The previous Strahan, Sara and Keke host — who was joined on Saturday by musical visitor SZA — rose to fame together with her breakout position in 2006’s Akeelah and the Bee reverse Laurence Fishburne and Angela Bassett. The Illinois native continued performing with starring roles within the likes of Leap In!, Nickelodeon’s True Jackson, VP, Joyful Noise, Scream Queens and Jordan Peele’s Nope.

Because the Hustlers actress grew from a toddler actress right into a mega-star, she’s been candid about increasing her household sooner or later and passing down the teachings that she’s discovered by the years.

Keke Palmer and Cecily Sturdy through the SNL “Ultrasound” sketch on December 3, 2022.

“[Parenthood is] having the ability to discuss to my children and to have the ability to encourage them and encourage them,” Palmer instructed E! Information final month about her motherhood hopes. “And likewise, simply strap them with the issues that they must be even higher than I may have even imagined. I need them to have greater than what I’ve, and I need them to know greater than me.”

The “Child, This Is Keke Palmer” podcast host added on the time: “[I want to] create a spot for us to have conversations, for them to speak to me, for them to really feel like I’m there and I settle for them, however then additionally to supply them as a lot as I can — and to maintain them grounded, too.”

Palmer’s child bump additionally made a shock cameo in one of many Saturday sketches. In an “Ultrasound” skit, the actress’ character obtained a checkup from Cecily Sturdy‘s OB-GYN. The Scream Queens alum, nonetheless, was in for a shock when she noticed a sonogram of her little ones (performed by SZA, Bowen Yang and Sarah Sherman, respectively) break-dancing and leaping rope within the “womb.”

Saturday Night time Reside airs on NBC Saturdays at 11:30 p.m. ET.

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