Keke Palmer has set the file straight on her son, Leodis’, old fashioned title.

In a hilarious phase on Scott Evans’ House Visitor podcast, the actress and host revealed that the title was made up by her ex-boyfriend Darius Jackson, an ode to the widespread follow of mixing mother and father’ names in her hometown of Chicago.
“Darius truly made his title. He wished each our names, which is so loopy,” she mentioned. “So yeah, that was him attempting to place like Darius and Lauren, like Leodis, prefer it was simply an excessive amount of, however I mentioned, ‘Hey, let’s do it. It’s lovely.’ I used to be pregnant, something went. It’s lovely, … after which additionally it gave the impression of an previous title. He gave the impression of he was marching with [Martin Luther King Jr.]. It’s like Leodis Andrellton Jackson. He’s gonna be on any person’s marketing campaign. I simply need him to be like Michael from Good Occasions.“
She continued,
“My mother and father did that very same s***. My sister’s title is Lawrencia. My daddy’s Lawrence. It’s an excessive amount of.”
Solely our woman Keke would have this origin story for a reputation that sounds generations previous.
Her lovely tot not too long ago celebrated his second birthday and Keke marked the milestone with a carousel of cute images and a particular message.
“My life can and can by no means be the identical. You will have made me who I’ll eternally be, a MOTHA,” Palmer wrote in her caption. “Leodis from the second you had been in my abdomen I knew you had been a robust little boy. I may simply really feel it! Though you might be now not in my abdomen you might be in actual fact my biggest energy,” she continued. “Idk if it’s telepathy or what however you might have taught me that I can do something and so long as you might be watching I promise I gained’t allow you to down. Robust child, robust mommy!!!”
Sure, Leodis!