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When Keke Palmer hosted SNL in December, she revealed a pretty far along baby bump and confirmed her pregnancy during her monologue. Now the baby bump is an actual baby! Keke and her boyfriend Darius Jackson welcomed their first son, Leodis Andrellton Jackson. The baby’s nickname is Leo. Leo is a little cutie!

Keke Palmer and Darius Jackson are a family of three!

The Emmy Award winner, 29, announced the birth of their first child, a baby boy they named Leodis “Leo” Andrellton on Monday.

The mom of 48 hours excitedly shared some of their first family photos together on Instagram after welcoming their newborn son.

“Hey Son!!!!” Palmer wrote, adding: “Born during Black History Month, with a name to match! LEODIS ANDRELLTON JACKSON, welcome to the world baby Leo.”

In the first slide, she shared a snap of what the couple looks like after “only 48hrs of being parents!” In the next slide, she shared a video of herself singing “Someone” by El Debarge to Jackson in the car after he included the track in some playlists for her when they started dating.

“We became each other’s someone and made a someone, look at God!” Palmer wrote.

Palmer also shared some photos of their family of three in the hospital after welcoming baby Leo, including close-ups of their little one’s face.

“‘I’m not hiding the world from my son, I’m hiding my son from the world.’ Hahaha,” she wrote, adding, “I’m just playing, my baby face is on this slide … And this slide.”

[From People]

Congratulations to Keke and Darius! Though Keke and Darius made the announcement on Monday, the baby was born over the weekend. Leo really cut it close with being born right at the end of Black History Month. Fans had a lot to say about the important sounding name, and Keke joked right back with them in the comments. While I get why celebs sometimes don’t want to share their baby’s face, I like that Keke is not being precious about it. She posted a bunch of pics to her Instagram and their excitement is so sweet. I love this for them! I wonder if she’ll post more with Darius now that Leo is here. They’ve been together about two years and reportedly met at Issa Rae’s party — Keke was on Insecure, as was Darius’s brother. They’ve kept their relationship sort of private, with posting and deleting pics, but hopefully there are a lot of family photos with cute little Leo in their future.

It’s giving I marched with Martin, purrrr. https://t.co/gxoL6mGSZY

— Keke Palmer (@KekePalmer) February 28, 2023

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