Keke Palmer is opening up about her baby star previous — and her once-dire monetary straits.
The “Nope” actor grew to become her household’s breadwinner whereas nonetheless a younger lady. And although that Hollywood gambit finally paid off, Palmer lately revealed she’d declared chapter at 18 years of age.
“I was so spooked,” she admitted on the Constructing Wealth Immediately for Tomorrow monetary literacy occasion in Chicago, per Afrotech. “I was like, ‘What went wrong?’”
Palmer was solely 10 years previous when she landed her first half in “Barbershop 2: Back in Business,” and went on to nab lead roles in main initiatives together with “Akeelah and the Bee” (2006) and Nickelodeon’s “True Jackson, VP” (2008-2011). However that got here at a value.
“Due to my traveling and scheduling both of my parents had to stop working to support my career and be present for my three siblings, leaving me with the financial responsibility around age 12,” she wrote final yr on Instagram. The actor mentioned she took “great pride” in that, however the duty of turning into a “parentalized child” who paid the payments additionally pressured her to desert her youth.
Now 31 and with a toddler of her personal, Palmer says she lives effectively “under” her means.
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“If I got $10,000 in the bank, then my house be $500 a month,” she reportedly mentioned ultimately week’s summit. “That’s how under I mean, because I can probably afford something $2,500 maybe, but I’m going way under. You know why? Because I wanna invest in my business.”
Palmer launched a streaming community named KeyTv on YouTube in 2022 to empower and amplify Black creatives — and reportedly invested $500,000 of her personal to make it occur.
“So if I wanna invest in my business, then the material things that I’m having currently might have to take a short back,” she mentioned on the summit. “Instead of wearing Gucci, I’m wearing Zara. I live in a good place. I drive a cool car, ’cause my money is going elsewhere.”
The “cool car,” she informed her viewers, is a Toyota.
