Why Pregnancy Has Keke Palmer Feeling Like “Superwoman”

“I just think it’s exciting to meet a new little person,” she said. At the same time, “You have to remind yourself, as a parent, that this person really doesn’t belong to me. I brought them into the world, I’m here to watch them, I’m here to be there for them.”

“I might feel, like, ‘Oh my gosh, I love him so much, and he came from me,'” she continued. “But at the end of the day, he has his own identity. So I’ve got to get to know him as a new person in my life that I just happen to be in love with already.”

The Illinois native’s support system includes her mother Sharon, who’s been “very encouraging of me and my partner Darius,” Palmer noted, in addition to giving her “encouragement and confidence in a new way” as a mom-to-be.

As for tips about the actual giving-birth portion of the process, Palmer shared that her mother’s been advising her to “mentally escape” and remember, when the going gets tough, that “pretty soon I’m gonna be hanging with this baby.”