How Keke Palmer Crafted Her Password Persona to Wink at a Role ‘Dominated by Men’

In February 2023, Palmer welcomed her first son, Leodis Andrellton Jackson, introducing the actress to the entirely new role of full-time mother. That job, too, comes with its own wardrobe. She calls it “Princess Diana energy.”

“I want to just be, ‘Let me put a blazer on real quick. Let me put a bell bottom with a jean on. Let me put some biker shorts on and sneakers and a hoodie,’” she says. “It’s like this professional swag that I think I’ve embraced in my career a lot of times, right? But in my personal life it’s [now] been a little bit more embraced.”

She continues, “I’ve become even more busy, but I also want to be this person for my son to just really live for, you know what I mean? I want him to just be like, ‘My mom has got it going on.’”