Keke Palmer On Setting ‘Personal Boundaries’ Around What She Shares About Her Life Now: ‘I’ve Learned A lot’ (Exclusive)

Keke Palmer will not be an open e-book anymore — and there is a good cause.

The star and influencer, 30, who not too long ago served as key word speaker on the Black Magic Reimagined convention on Oct. 1, is understood for being unapologetically candid. She’s lengthy shared particulars of her non-public world, be it her life as a mother to son Leodis, 7 months, or her relationship together with his dad Darius Jackson. However now Palmer tells PEOPLE that she’s wanted to make adjustments to how clear she’s prepared to be with the general public.

“The factor with social media is that it could simply be a spot the place you’ll be able to work, nevertheless it additionally blurs the road between what is figure and what’s actual life,” says Palmer. “I can not management how everyone’s going to take one thing. And in addition I am having my very own private boundaries for what I really feel like I would like on the market or what I need to give individuals the chance to talk on.”

In current months there’s been specific hypothesis across the star’s relationship with Jackson, who made headlines when he publicly criticized the outfit Palmer wore to observe Usher carry out at his Las Vegas Residency in July, writing on X (previously Twitter) on the time, “It is the outfit tho.. you a mother.”

Because the rumored drama, the 2 have posted outings collectively together with lunch for her thirtieth birthday and attending Beyoncé’s Renaissance tour cease in Las Angeles. Final week the actress and musician showcased images of him in addition to their son Leo throughout a candy slideshow as a part of her Huge Boss Tour cease at Webster Corridor in New York Metropolis.

That mentioned, Palmer has been steadily dodging questions in regards to the standing of their relationship since this summer season, most notably telling Hoda Kotb and Jenna Bush-Hager to “Thoughts y’all’s enterprise,” once they requested about Jackson throughout a current episode of At the moment with Hoda & Jenna.

Says Palmer now, “I believe I discovered a whole lot of various things alongside the best way when it comes to what my boundaries are, what I am prepared to share, what I am not prepared to share.” She provides, “I believe it is arduous to defend your self to individuals that do not even know you or that have already got so many preconceived notions about you.”

Today, she’s not adhering to any outdoors strain. “You find yourself attending to a place the place you are like, ‘Properly, wait a minute. Let me simply do me and never be so reactive to different individuals’,” she says. “‘Let’s not let my decisions be a lot in a response to how different persons are treating me’.”