Keke Palmer is continuing to open up about her sexuality. The 29-year-old actress, who appeared on a recent episode of The Best Podcast Ever with Raven and Miranda, said she stopped overthinking about being her authentic self.
“There was a moment in my life where I was like you know, can I be myself? The moment where you overthink s**t,” Palmer told co-hosts Raven-Symoné and her wife Miranda. “That’s not even me, why am I overthinking this? I guess you just get to the point where I want my life to be my own life.”
Palmer added that she was worried about how her family would see her. But now, she has realized that her parents support whoever she wants to be.
“Sexuality and stuff like that, that was not even … my parents never even cared about something like that or talked about that,” she said. “And I know that by the time they saw how free of a spirit I was, and whoever I wanted to date, they were like, ‘Whoever cares.’ It was never anything that was in their mind.”
Palmer said she didn’t live out her experiences in the past as she kept her sexuality hidden from her family.
“There is like an unsaid thing that can make you feel — and because I liked guys too, I was kinda like, ‘Well, we don’t have to talk about it,'” she said. “Because I like guys too, it was like that’s another extra thing that no one really has to know about. I don’t really have to live out.”
The Hollywood star said she was 17 years old when she decided to “explore her life.”
“I ultimately just feel like the acceptance of that part of myself, in general, was a part of my process of being able to have love in my life,” she said.
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When she accepted a Vanguard Award in April, the Nope star said gender doesn’t have to define the power she has in the world or decide her sexuality.
“Since I was younger, I always questioned the boxes I was forced to be in and it starts with who you’re supposed to be as a child, you’re supposed to be as a Black person, or whatever the background you are from,” she said according to Vibe. “Those walls just try to cave you in from every damn angle — who you are as a creative, who you are as a friend. There is no greater masterpiece than living your truth.”
