Keke Palmer says celebrities 'snap back' after giving birth because 'the job is on the line' with their looks

• Keke Palmer spoke to People about being a new mom. 
• She also discussed the pressure famous mothers face to "snap back."
• "A part of our jobs is to look good and to look the part," Palmer told People.

Keke Palmer spoke candidly about the pressure new moms — especially celebrity mothers — face to lose weight.

Palmer, 29, spoke to People's Daniela Avila in a new interview as part of the magazine's Beautiful Issue.

The pair discussed "bounce back" culture, where new moms face pressure to lose weight or look how they did before they were pregnant immediately after giving birth.

She advised moms to do what makes them "feel good" instead of focusing on their appearances.

"I think for me, the main thing I would say to any new mom is, do what you can when you can, whatever it is that makes you feel good," Palmer said, going on to say that she worked out when she felt up for it but rested when she needed to after becoming a mom.

But Palmer also warned people against looking to celebrities as models for how they should approach post-baby weight loss.

"Any time you see a celebrity doing a snap back or whatever like that, it's part of the damn gig," Palmer told Avila. "A part of our jobs is to look good and to look the part."

"So don't think it's this thing where it's like, 'We doing it because we got it like that.' No, the job is on the line," she went on to say. "If we want the checks to get signed, we got to be what we got to be."

Palmer welcomed her first child, Leodis Andrellton Jackson, with her partner Darius Jackson on February 25.

She famously revealed her pregnancy while hosting SNL in December 2022.