The Memoir Of Ms. Butterfly

Lauren Keyana Palmer was born on August 26, 1993, in Harvey, Illinois, and raised in nearby Robbins, Illinois. She grew up in a Catholic household. Her parents, Sharon and Lawrence “Larry” Palmer, who met in drama school, had both worked as professional actors before settling into full-time jobs.

Her father works for a polyurethane company, and her mother is a high school teacher who works with autistic children. Her father is a Catholic deacon. The nickname “Keke” is not a shortening of “Keyana”: according to Palmer, her name came about because her older sister had an imaginary friend named Keke before she was born.

Palmer first sang in a church and performed at a stage show at a Chicago tourist destination. In 2002, Palmer auditioned for a stage production of The Lion King at age nine.

2004, she gained her first film role in Barbershop 2: Back in Business. In 2005, Palmer signed a record deal with Atlantic Records. That same year, she was featured in the television film Knights of the South Bronx and starred in the television series Second Time Around and ER. That same year, producer Ralph Farquhar helped Palmer book the starring role in a Disney Channel pilot, Keke, and Jamal. The pilot was not picked up and never aired.

In 2006, Palmer had her acting breakthrough starring in the film Akeelah and the Bee, playing the titular Akeelah, a bright 11-year-old from a poor neighborhood who competes in the Scripps National Spelling Bee. Moira Macdonald of The Seattle Times wrote that Palmer “makes an appealing heroine. She won a Black Reel Award and an NAACP Image Award for the role. She also had a supporting role in the 2006 film Madea’s Family Reunion. The following year, Palmer appeared in the thriller Cleaner. She portrayed a lead role in the television film Jump In! Palmer also starred in two television programs, Tyler Perry’s House of Payne and Just Jordan. Palmer released her debut album, So Uncool, on September 18, 2007. The album was number 86 on the US Billboard Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart.

In 2008, Palmer began her starring role as the title character in the Nickelodeon sitcom True Jackson, VP. Palmer also wrote and performed the theme song for the series. Palmer earned $20,000 per episode of True Jackson, VP, which made her the fourth-highest-paid child star on television. In July 2009, designer Jane Siskin created a Walmart fashion line inspired by True Jackson, VP, with all the designs being approved by Palmer.

 She also played the lead role in the 2008 film The Longshots. Faithful Jackson, VP, ended in 2011. Palmer debuted as the voice of Aisha in Nickelodeon’s revival of Winx Club. She received an NAACP Image Award nomination for her voiceover work.

 2012 Palmer starred in the film Joyful Noise, released in January 2012. She produced and starred in Rags, a television musical film, and voiced Peaches in Ice Age: Continental Drift. In July 2012, Palmer released the single “You Got Me” featuring Kevin McCall. The video for the single was released on July 11, 2012. She released a self-titled mixtape, Keke Palmer, on October 1, 2012.

In 2013, Palmer portrayed Rozonda “Chilli” Thomas in the TLC biopic CrazySexyCool: The TLC Story, which aired in October on VH1. She next starred in the horror film Animal, released on June 17, 2014.

 She then recurred during the second season of Showtime’s drama series Masters of Sex, portraying Coral, a nanny. Palmer hosted a daytime talk show on BET titled Just Keke that same year. In doing so, she became one of the youngest talk show hosts in television history; the show itself has been regarded as “groundbreaking” and “refreshing.

 In September 2014, Palmer became the first African American to star as the title character in the musical Cinderella on Broadway. She performed her final show during the closing night of the show’s run on January 4, 2015. Later that year, Palmer announced that she had signed with Island Records.

Between September 2015 and December 2016, she starred as Zayday Williams in the horror comedy series Scream Queens, created by Ryan Murphy. In January 2016, Palmer starred as Marty Maraschino in the television special Grease: Live.

 Rolling Stone’s Britany Spanos regarded Palmer’s performance as “a standout” and highlighted her “assertiveness, confidence and biting sense of humor.

In June, Palmer released Waited to Exhale, an album she wrote on True Jackson, VP, that went unreleased due to label issues and her “anxiety-driven hesitance.

On November 4, Palmer released her second extended play, Lauren, with a 17-minute short film of the same name released exclusively on Billboard’s website.

In 2017, Palmer released her memoir, I Don’t Belong to You: Quiet the Noise and Find Your Voice. That same year, she joined the drama series Berlin Station during its second season.

In April 2019, Palmer began guest co-hosting ABC’s daytime talk show Strahan and Sara, sporadically filling in for co-host Michael Strahan and more regularly starting in June during co-host Sara Haines’s maternity leave.

She joined the slasher television series Scream as a series regular in its third season, portraying a character named Kym Johnson, which premiered on July 8, 2019.

On August 26, Palmer became a third permanent co-host of Strahan and Sara, which was then re-titled Strahan, Sara, and Keke. In September, Palmer starred as a “lovestruck stripper” in the crime drama film Hustlers, directed by Lorene Scafaria.

She sang the song “Giants” as part of a virtual group named True Damage, in which she voices a character named Senna in the video game League of Legends for the 2019 World Championship.

The song features singers Becky G and Soyeon and rappers Duckwrth and Thutmose as the other group members. In November, True Damage performed the song live during the opening ceremony of the finals.

Strahan, Sara, and Keke ended unexpectedly in March 2020 when the COVID-19 pandemic ended live studio programming throughout the industry, and ABC decided to shift the timeslot toward news.

Palmer later received a Daytime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Entertainment Talk Show Host alongside Haines and Strahan. That same year, Palmer began starring in a web television comedy series titled Turnt Up with the Taylors, in which she portrays all the characters.

She released an extended play titled Virgo Tendencies, Pt. 1 on August 28. On August 30, Palmer hosted the 2020 MTV Video Music Awards, during which she also performed her song Snack.

She released a follow-up EP – Virgo Tendencies, Pt. 2 – in December 2020. Palmer won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Actress in a Short Form Comedy or Drama Series for her Turnt Up with the Taylors’ performance the following year.

The same year, Palmer briefly hosted a reboot of the classic 90’s MTV dating show Singled Out with Joel Kim Booster as her co-host for the short-lived online streaming service network Quibi.

In 2021, Palmer hosted the reality competition series Foodtastic for Disney+. In 2022, Palmer starred in Alice, directed by Krystin Ver Linden, which had its world premiere at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival. She also served as narrator on Not So Pretty, a documentary investigating the beauty industry directed by Kirby Dick and Amy Ziering for HBO Max.

. Palmer voiced the character of Izzy Hawthorne in the Pixar animated film Lightyear, a spinoff of the Toy Story film series. That same year, she starred as Emerald Haywood in the Jordan Peele-directed science-fiction horror Nope, for which she received critical attention; her performance won the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actress.

 In 2022, Palmer debuted as host of an NBC reboot of the game show Password, with Jimmy Fallon as executive producer/permanent celebrity guest. On February 9, 2023, it was announced that she was set to star alongside Sacha Baron Cohen in the David O. Russell film “Super Toys.” The film is a period piece set in the 1970s. In the last three episodes of Karma’s World, in September 2022, Palmer voiced Cece Dupree, a conniving and ruthless rapper. In June 2023, she was announced to have been invited to join The Academy as an actor.

It was essential for me to do this piece on Keke Palmer. Not only because she is someone that I have admired since I was super young but because I believe that people forget that we are women and just because we become mothers does not mean we stop being women; she has worked extremely hard and so young to make a name in a spot for herself in Hollywood that I believe it’s unfair for anyone specifically, her partner and her baby daddy to degrade her the way he did on social media.

Palmer works with the Boys’ and Girls’ Clubs of the American charity Cool To Be Smart program, speaking to children about the importance of learning.

She is also a supporter of Urban Farming and the Girl Scouts. She has worked with the YWCA and Saving Our Daughters. As of 2010, Palmer has been a representative for the Saving Our Daughters project, an anti-bullying campaign.

She is a supporter of the Black Lives Matter movement. She was included in the Time’s 100 Next lists in November 2019, which “spotlights 100 rising stars shaping the future of business, entertainment, sports, politics, science, health and more.

In 2020, she marched in Hollywood, California, as part of the George Floyd protests. That same year, she addressed the movement during her opening monologue at the 2020 MTV Video Music Awards.

Palmer has said she does not want her sexuality defined by labels and that people should be fluid with labeling themselves, as their identities can change. She has struggled with anxiety and depression. In 2019, as part of the #YouKnowMe campaign, she shared via Twitter that she had an abortion at 24. Palmer has been dealing with polycystic ovary syndrome her entire life.

While hosting Saturday Night Live on December 3, 2022, Palmer announced she was pregnant with her first child with boyfriend Darius Jackson. Their son was born in February 2023.

 I am not a mom, but I’m a woman. I’m 41 years old. I’ll be 42 in September, and I’ve always dreamed of becoming a mom for a very long time. Because we become mothers, does that mean we have to forget who we were before we became mothers?

 As mothers, we don’t allow ourselves days off because we have something inside of us called mom guilt. Amazing little person you carried with you for nine months who could hear your heartbeat and listen to theirs.

 Yes, I will see world changes once we become mothers because we don’t only work for ourselves. Still, we work for them to ensure they have everything they want, not material things, But love, support, and gratitude to reassure them that they were and are a true blessing in our lives.

 Still, as moms, we sometimes forget that we are women and can’t allow being a mom to be a 24-hour job. As I said, there is no vacation time, Time off, or anything. It’s just you in this little human.

 Trying to nurture, raise, and love unconditionally and ensure that they understand the world is not the easiest to live in, but it can open doors for you once you’re ready to open those doors.

 I hate that men feel like once we become mothers, we shouldn’t be considered sexy or desirable being a mom, and I believe that is so far from the truth. Moms are sexy because we have the ability and strength to push life into this world.

Every man should bite their tongue until they can push another human being out of their body.

If any man feels like his manhood is being challenged because baby mama looks incredible and caught the attention like Usher, who is sexy in his own right, all I have to do is check yourself at the door.

Celebrities always complain about wanting privacy. The man is supposed to love and protect you as his woman is airing all the dirty laundry so the world can place their input on his nasty behavior towards baby mama.

Ms. Butterfly Genesis