Keke Palmer is celebrating a significant milestone today – her son Leodis’ first birthday. The actress took to Instagram to share her love for her son on his special day.
She began, “Leo Beo!! Happy Birthday son I LOVE YOU SO MUCH. You came into my life today at 3:25pm, but I knew even before then that you were the strongest person I ever knew. There were so many moments during my pregnancy where your silent strength would give me peace. This is something you still do just with your mere existence!”
Keke Palmer and her ex-boyfriend, Darius Daulton Jackson, welcomed their baby boy, Leodis Andrellton Jackson, into the world on February 25, 2023. Since then, Leodis has brought immeasurable happiness and meaning to Keke’s life, as she describes,”You make my life so worth living.
The actress opened up about the transformative effect of motherhood, revealing, “If I’m being honest I have always teeter tottered with life. I have just always been so annoyed by it and the ups and the downs and it has always seemed so painful for trivial reasons. Things could be so simple and they’re not and that always gave me a bitter feeling. But since you my son, I have no confusion on why I am here! On my purpose or my value or why I should stay.”
She continued, “I wanna stay for you. I want to be here to love and protect you and watch you be the good in this world! You are so special and so precious I would take a thousand bullets to the chest, run into a burning building, essentially I’d die a thousand deaths… or actually I’d LIVE, I’d live a million lives. Even with all the pain and suffering one has to experience here. I will do it over and over again, because I know that I’d be with YOU! I will live, I will smile, I will cry, I’ll be angry, I’ll have love and I’ll have pain, I will find JOY. I will do all the things.. for you. It’s so easy to say no, it’s so easy to say GOODBYE. But I say YES and I say HELLO to LIFE because of YOU! I’m so happy for my son. Thank you God. I love you so much buddy.”
Accompanying her heartfelt message, Palmer shared a touching video of herself in the hospital shortly after Leodis’ birth. “I gave LIFE! Greatest day of my life. Nothing else matters, she captioned.”
