Keke Palmer Doesn’t Expect Partners To Make As Much Money As Her

When it comes to dating, Keke Palmer is being realistic about what she expects, financially, from her partners.

During a recent appearance on the Club Shay Shay podcast, the star talked to host Shannon Sharpe about how she handles money in her relationships. After opening up about becoming a millionaire at just 12 years old, Keke admits that her situation is a strange one, so she doesn’t hold others to that same standard.

“To expect everybody to have become a millionaire at 12, and learn money management, and have a business manager at 12, to me, just seems not realistic,” she began. “I started working, 10, 15 years before most of my generation had their first job. I don’t hold people to those standards.”

Palmer went on to joke to Sharpe: “If I wanted somebody that made as much as me, this would be a date and not an interview.”

Ultimately, the NOPE actress is looking for a lot more than just money in a relationship, especially since that’s something she can already provide for herself.

“When it comes to guys our age, every now and then you might find somebody that’s out there makin’ it, but most of the time…my mom and dad they went 50/50 all my life, so when I hear some of the stuff that people is saying about relationships and dating, I’m just kinda like, ‘I don’t know how that’s gonna work, but maybe I’m trippin’,” she explained.

Keke continued. “I don’t need you to pay for everything for me, I actually prefer you not to, I’ll let you know when I would like for you to spend something.”

This comes just one day after Keke discussed her co-parenting relationship with her ex-boyfriend Darius Jackson with Gayle King on CBS Mornings on Tuesday.

The star was asked about how she’s been able to get to a better place with Jackson, with whom she shares son Leodis, 1. In response, Palmer says both of them have been focusing on showing up for their little one, and though she didn’t think it would work out, she’s happy it has.

“I gotta be honest, I would’ve never thought that I would be where I am now, and so I’m very grateful that this has now been the outcome and we’ve been able to coexist in this way and show up for our son, and just be in a different place. It’s a real blessing,” Palmer said.

As for how she’s managed to do that, Keke has one word: “Boundaries.”

“I don’t think I had enough of ’em,” she admits. “I think boundaries, and I talk about that a lot in the book. People cannot respect boundaries you don’t have and sometimes it’s hard to make boundaries with people you love. And that’s something that I’ve always struggled with. I talk about it so much in the book, with my Christian background and the concept of forgiveness and how that means I show up for me and show up for others.

“And when I had my son, it became clear that I needed to create boundaries and I needed to have hard lines with the people in my life,” Palmer concluded.