Actress Keke Palmer opens up about the trauma she experienced as a child actress due to pressure regarding her weight. Palmer shared that a former manager told her her mother's health would deteriorate if she didn't stay thin, causing her significant distress and anxiety. She also discusses the challenges of navigating Hollywood stardom at a young age, including an inappropriate relationship with an older man.
“There was so much pressure to rise to the occasion for my community, for my parents, for my siblings, for their sacrifices,” she said in the profile published Tuesday.10The “Nope” star revealed an ex-manager told her that her mom would die if she didn’t lose weight.
A few years later, she reached full child-star status after being cast as the titular character in Nickelodeon’s “True Jackson, VP.”“She was climbing a corporate ladder, working a grown-up job as a kid. I felt the same way,” she told the outlet. “Obviously I shouldn’t have been 15 dating no 20-year-old, but in my mind it was like ‘I got a full-time job … Can’t nobody understand me but a grown man.”
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