- Keke Palmer revealed her pregnancy on "SNL" because she wasn't sure how else to tell people.
- Ultimately, she is happy with the way she told the world and said it was "so much fun."
Actor Keke Palmer, who famously revealed her bare baby bump during her "Saturday Night Live" monologue in December, said she did that because she wasn't sure how else to tell the public she was pregnant.
Palmer told Vanity Fair that by the time she was set to host "SNL," "people were already commenting" on her pregnant belly and that she "knew it was going to be a thing to try to hide it."
"I didn't really know how to address it. It just felt like it was never the right time, and having a child is so private," Palmer said. "But I felt like I should probably let people know."
Ultimately, Palmer's happy with her decision to make such a public debut.
"It was so much fun to say it during my monologue. That's something my kid can have forever," Palmer told Vanity Fair, adding she is "so happy for my child" for getting such a "legendary" reveal.
Ever since, fans on Twitter have decided they are the "aunties and uncles" of her baby — something Palmer said, "gives me life."
"It's so sweet because I've been performing for so many years, so for people to feel that way? It's huge. It gave me so much joy to see them celebrating with me," Palmer said.
"Pregnancy is a road," Palmer confessed, but said she still feels "like the same old me [at] six months along."
She continued: "I really expected something so dramatic. But I'm just pregnant."
Earlier this month, Palmer revealed how she and her boyfriend Darius Jackson found out about her pregnancy on her podcast, "Baby, This is Keke Palmer."
The "Nope" star said that she "randomly" took a pregnancy test one day but didn't wait long enough to see the result before throwing it in the trash, assuming it was negative.
"I didn't have the lines on there, so I just threw it in the trash. No big thing," Palmer recalled. "So, I got out with Nora and we're at this semicasual business dinner, but we're having some little sake, enjoying ourselves. And all of a sudden, I get a text from Darius, and he says, 'When did you take this?' And it's a picture of the pregnancy test and it's positive."
When Palmer came home, they did 10 more tests to make sure and each test came back positive.
While the couple, who publicly announced their relationship in 2021, haven't revealed Palmer's expected due date, the "Hustlers" star said on "The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon" that she is expecting a baby boy and he will be a "Pisces or an Aries." That indicates she could give birth between February and April.