Keke Palmer recalls pressure as younger black actress

Keke Palmer opened up about resenting the pressure she felt as a younger actress

The 31-year-old actress, who first found fame as a child, during an interview with The Cut, confessed that she hated her parents for a long time.

"There was so much pressure to rise to the occasion for my community, for my parents, for my siblings, for their sacrifices,” the This Is Me... Now: A Love Story actress said.

Keke went on to say, “They weren’t saying it, but that was the reality. Because I’m the one that we all came here for.”

According to the Hustlers actress, she felt that "people were putting limitations" on her as a younger black actress in Hollywood.

“I wasn’t necessarily in the same conversations as Victoria Justice or Selena Gomez or Miley Cyrus at that time. It was very much ‘That’s the black show’ or ‘That’s Keke Palmer, the black girl on the network,'” the former child actress added.

Keke Palmer said that she ultimately found that she needed to reinvent herself in order to begin the next phase of her career.