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Keke Palmer on coming from poverty: "Absolutely, there’s pressure. I came from poverty. We just didn’t have it. We didn’t overthink not having it. We made do with what we had. We had a great sense of love and community, but we didn’t have it. And so once you see what having it is, that becomes a difficult thing to even think about going back. Your first thought is, like, 'Oh, no, I have to reach a point of stability.' What’s so interesting is that even when you reach that point of stability, when you’re working from that mindset and that pressure, you don’t know when it’s over."

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00:00Was there ever a pressure about making that next paycheck?
00:05Absolutely. Absolutely that's a pressure.
00:07Especially when you come from, I came from poverty.
00:09You know, not the kind where it's like necessarily we're, you know, it's crazy.
00:12It's just like we didn't have it. You know what I mean?
00:14We just didn't have it. We didn't overthink not having it.
00:16We may do what we had.
00:18You know, we had a great sense of love and community, but we didn't have it.
00:21And so once you see what having it is,
00:24that becomes a difficult thing to even think about going back to.
00:28Your first thought is like, oh, no, I have to I have to reach a point of stability.
00:33And what's so interesting is that even when you reach that point of stability,
00:37when you're working from that mindset and you're having that that pressure,
00:41you don't know when it's over.
00:43And so that's always been something that I've worked on and that I've tried to always.
00:47I think when I became aware of it, which probably I want to say trinkles of it was when I
00:53was like 16, 17.
00:55Hey, something feels a little too much.
00:57You know what I mean?
00:58And maybe I should go to therapy or then 18, 19, 20.
01:01I don't know if I can hold this weight.
01:03I don't know if I can hold that weight.
01:03I don't know if I can hold this weight.
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