Keke Palmer is an actress, singer, mother — and now a video game streamer.
The 29-year-old, first-time mom-to-be joined the livestreaming service Twitch last weekend, but she’s not only doing it only for fun and games.
She is using it to assist her prepare for childbirth and pending motherhood.
The actress has been actively playing “The Sims 4,” a social simulation game that enables users to manage avatars.
Palmer purchased all of the game expansion packs and downloaded third-party mod applications that modified game features in order that she could experience more simulations.
One among those is childbirth — which, it seems, is considered one of her favorite things to do in the sport.
Sims allows her character to explore different child-birthing options, similar to an at-home birth, Caesarean section or natural within the hospital.
The sport also provides users with a full pregnancy experience, simulating ultrasounds, pregnancy symptoms and even water breaking.
“This is admittedly giving me a great pastime while I wait for this baby to come out,” said Palmer, who’s expecting a baby boy with boyfriend Darius Jackson and in her last trimester, in her latest Twitch stream.
“The way in which that I’ve been getting my game together, girl,” she told BuzzFeed News. “Don’t even get me began on that.”
Palmer feels connected to the sport’s detailed birthing process since she is predicted to deliver soon; nonetheless, she and Jackson haven’t disclosed which method she plans to make use of in real life.
This current Sims version, though, is pretty impressive, she said.
“It’s more realistic than what actually happens in [the older Sims games] where, boom, a baby just appears,” she said.
Fans encouraged her to start out streaming after she tweeted several questions about “The Sims 4” and hopped on Instagram live while fidgeting with her somewhat chaotic characters.
“Me and my homegirl, she was messing together with her, and she or he gave her STDs. That’s why she’s glowing like that,” the “KeyTV Network” founder said of the storyline while playing the sport. “So, I’m going to fight Tina on behalf of my girl.”
After having fun with the interactions with fans and fellow Sims lovers, she announced her live stream account.
Currently, her Twitch account, @itskekebabii, has greater than 30,000 subscribers, with three videos posted.
Palmer is not any longer an amateur with regards to the metaverse world.
As the brand new host of Meta’s “Are We There Yet?“ interview series, she speaks with industry leaders like immersive media creator Brenda Chen about virtual reality live shows.
The “Queen of Memes” and soon-to-be mom appreciates the brand new skills her downtime has given her.
“I might absolutely recommend that other people who find themselves pregnant see what sort of skills they’ll develop by playing games and going into the metaverse,” she told BuzzFeed.
