All About Keke Palmer's Sister, Loreal Palmer

The winner of the first season of ‘Claim to Fame’ is a horror movie fanatic with filmmaking aspirations

Keke Palmer is not the only creative in her family. The multi-talented star showed the world just how cool her older sister, Loreal Palmer, is when she appeared and won the first season of ABC’s Claim to fame.

Loreal played the game well and got the support of the spectators, including Keke. In fact, the actress insisted on watching every episode with her sister as they aired.

“I wish I had recorded her reactions to some of the things because she’s so serious and always says, ‘Don’t tell me, I want to watch and I want to find out.’ It’s almost as fun as just watching it [the show],” Loreal told PEOPLE.

Keke credits her family for inspiring her with creativity and humor, but she also said that she admires her older sister Loreal as a person and as a mother because she has three children. Likewise, Loreal said that Keke inspires her as well.

“I am beyond proud of the beautiful woman you have become both inside and out and it has been a privilege to watch you go from performing on Mildred to performing for the world,” she wrote in a birthday Instagram post dedicated to Keke. in 2021

Loreal is a fan of horror and thrillers and said that one day she would like to make her own movie, maybe even starring as Keke’s sister. She once told PEOPLE that she would love to be “the next Wes Craven.”

So who is Keke Palmer’s sister? Here’s what you need to know about Loreal Palmer and her relationship with her actress brother.

She is the child of actors

Keke Palmer and family at the 2022 World Premiere of Universal Pictures’ NOPE.

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Keke and Loreal were born in Harvey, Illinois, and grew up in Robbins, Illinois, along with their other siblings, twins Lawrence and Lawrence Palmer, and their parents, Sharon and Lawrence “Larry” Palmer.

Sharon and Lawrence met as drama school students, and both worked as actors before having children. Their father is currently a Catholic deacon, and their mother is a high school teacher.

When Keke wanted to start acting, Loreal had to persuade her family to move to Los Angeles.

“I knew opportunities would come if I just kept trying. I talked about it with my sister and I didn’t have anything to bribe her,” Keke said in an interview with USA Today. Fortunately, Loreal supported his little sister’s dreams.

“I asked her: ‘Please?’ I knew she was excited about going to high school and I didn’t want to take that away from her — but I really wanted my dream to come true. She said, ‘You’re really talented and I think this could be good for you.’ ”

She is a winning reality show contestant

Kevin Jonas, Loreal “LC” Palmer and Frankie Jonas in ‘Claim to Fame’.

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Loreal got her fifteen minutes of fame when she won ABC’s first season Claim to famereality show where celebrity relatives try to guess each other’s claim to fame in a series of challenges and guessing ceremonies.

Speaking to PEOPLE about the experience, Loreal revealed that she was surprised by how emotionally draining being on the show was.

“It’s a game, but there are real people involved and real feelings. I used to watch reality TV and when I’d see someone have a breakdown, I’d be like, ‘Oh, this is so dramatic.’ But now I apologize to those people I thought that about. I didn’t expect the emotional toll it took,” she said.

Although Loreal was the winner, she hinted at her relationship with Keke in various challenges, including a surprisingly sentimental one where she wore a bee costume to represent Keke’s film, Akeelah and the bee. Despite the clear nod to her famous sister, her fellow contestants thought it was a hint of a relationship with Laurence Fishburne, who also starred in the film.

“I’m different and I was teased a lot as a kid, so that doesn’t make you feel pretty,” Loreal said, crying in a confessional video. “That challenge, I finally felt like I was. I know I was a bee, but I felt like I was a butterfly.”

Loreal won over the public and her colleagues, with whom she says she is in contact.

“We have a group chat and then we have individual conversations,” she told PEOPLE. “I hope we’ll always be in touch because it was a unique experience bringing together people who otherwise probably would never have met. It’s like I’m leaving with 11 new friends.”

She also posted some behind-the-scenes photos of her time on the show, with bonding images of her and her co-stars, hosts Frankie and Kevin Jonas, and crew members.

“This has truly been a life changing experience and it just keeps getting better! I love you all and I’m proud to say I did this with you,” she wrote in another Instagram post.

She is a role model for her younger sister

Keke Palmer and Loreal Palmer.

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Keke is not ashamed to give big sister Loreal flowers and remind her how much she inspires her.

“Only a few know that you are the true talent in the family from Mariah Carey’s notes to Jim Carey’s hilarity, I have always looked up to you,” Keke wrote in a 2022 birthday post on Instagram for her sister, accompanied by a sweet photo of the pair.

“After all these years you are still someone I can learn from in even more influential ways,” she continued. “Seeing you as a mother, a woman, and not as a child, was the sweetest thing to see! Witnessing your strength and your faith reveals your depth and virtue.”

Despite being older, Loreal also credits Keke with teaching her a few valuable lessons.

“Main [lesson] that she taught me that I hope to pass on to my own children is that you can do whatever you want. You can be whatever you want to be,” Loreal told PEOPLE about Keke. “You’re going to have people who don’t agree with what you do or who don’t like you and that’s okay. It’s part of life. You have to go on and live for yourself.”

She is the mother of three children

Loreal is the mother of three children: a son named Alex and two daughters, Ali and Aaliyah.

Loreal welcomed Alex, who also goes by the nicknames AJ and Age, with her ex-husband, Frank Wimberly III, in July 2014. The couple’s first daughter, Ali, was born in 2015. Aaliyah, the youngest, was born on April 17, 2019.

In December 2021, Aunt Keke shared a short video starring her nephew and nieces, which she jokingly called her “directorial, editing and DP debut”.

“My nephew @gaming_with_age told me he wants to be an actor like me when he grows up 🥺 — so we decided to make a movie! His two little sisters decided to join and we even did a little premiere,” she wrote.

“I can’t tell you how happy it makes me to have this aspect to channel our creativity. My parents were entertainers, my siblings are entertainers (although they don’t always actively do it lol), and I’m an entertainer,” she continued. “We’re passing it on to the next generation. My heart is SO full.”

After making Keke an aunt several times, Loreal finally became an aunt to Keke’s son Leodis Andrellton Jackson in February 2023.

She likes horror movies

Loreal “LC” Palmer on ‘Claim to Fame’.

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Loreal likes horror and slasher movies, and she has tattoos for that.

In September 2022, she showed off her latest tattoo, a cartoon version of Michael Myers from Halloween franchise. Soon after, she posted photos of two more horror-themed tattoos: one of slasher Jason Voorhees from Friday 13 horror movie franchises and one of Pennywise, the clown from the Stephen King movie It, in the same style.

He also has a matching Keke tattoo. According to the actress, they are Goonies leg tattoos because they love movies.

But Loreal doesn’t just enjoy watching horror movies, as she said she’d like to be behind the scenes one day.

“I want to make horror movies,” she once told PEOPLE. “My dream is I’d love to be the next Wes Craven. He’s my idol. I’m a big fan of 80s slashers and I feel like so much of what’s out there right now is so psychological or supernatural and I just want to bring back the good old fashioned slasher.”

Loreal also mentioned that she would love to work on a horror film with her sister Keke, who starred in Jordan Peele’s 2022 sci-fi horror film. Not.

“And she likes horror, so hopefully we’ll get together and do some pretty crazy stuff.”

He plans to start a film company

In an interview with PopCulture, Loreal talked about her plans for the future and reflected on the recent changes in her life that made her Claim to fame victory even deeper.

“Winning is so crazy for me because I’m recently divorced, I have three young children, [and] I went back to school,” Loreal said.

“I also want to start my own film production company. It’s like, ‘OK, great. Things are falling into place,'” she added. “I just want it to work. I want it to count.”

She also stated that the $100,000 prize was from the win Claim to fame she would be of great help in setting her plans in motion.

“You know, you always have ‘wrong dreams,’ when you say, ‘If I ever had the chance, I would do this.’ Now I have the opportunity, so I have to do all these things that I said I wanted to do,” she said.

She prefers to remain reserved

Keke Palmer and Loreal Palmer.

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Despite becoming a reality TV star, Loreal is quite a private person. In fact, she said she was shocked she was even asked to act Claim to fame because of how private it is.

“Someone approached me and I’m not going to lie, I thought it was some kind of scam,” Loreal told PopCulture about being approached for the show. “I’m so hidden and so far from Keka… how did you even find me?”

While she was hesitant to appear on reality TV, Loreal said her sister pushed her to take the opportunity.

“Keke was trying to get me to do things all the time, so she said, ‘There’s no doubt. Do it, then enjoy it,’ said Loreal.

Even after winning the competition, Loreal remained pretty quiet on social media, posting only rarely.

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