Ella Mai on Being a Mom & Lover Girl
Baby, this is Keke Palmer
Wondery
4.7 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 5 May 2026
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
Scorpio energy in the studio! Grammy-winning singer Ella Mai joins Keke to talk motherhood, identity, and love, with that same “Boo’d Up” energy, just evolved. She shares how becoming a mom reshaped her priorities, confidence, and relationship with her body after breastfeeding. Ella also opens up about her most vulnerable album yet, Do You Still Love Me?, and how songs like “Little Things” reflect her fully stepping into her Lover Girl era.
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| 0:00.0 | Y'all, today's guest is a Grammy-winning R&B star |
| 0:03.0 | who gave us the ultimate cuffing season anthem with boot up |
| 0:07.2 | and has been making us feel the love ever since. |
| 0:10.5 | I'm talking about the one and only Ella May. |
| 0:13.3 | Since hitting the scene, she's only continued to level up, |
| 0:16.3 | from new music to motherhood, all without compromising who she is. |
| 0:20.7 | Her latest album is called Do You |
| 0:22.8 | Still Love Me? But let's be real. The answer is yes. So let's get into it with Ella, because |
| 0:28.8 | baby, this is Gicky Palmer. No matter what we're doing in the car, just chilling, popo |
| 0:34.6 | Amazon music, sit back and listen. Life, love, sex, science, covering it all, especially the bad cause money always involved. No matter what it is, we gonna make it make sense. Nothing else will do but kick it with the homies and kin. So grab you a drink and a snack you enjoy and get it into the vibe that only wonkis is You know it's your girls. Baby, this, this is Kiki. Baby Baby this is Kiki Poma, yeah |
| 0:58.7 | Ella, Ella, Ella, Ella, me. |
| 1:03.5 | Now is it May, my? |
| 1:04.6 | I know everybody, because, you know, I know people be butchering it. |
| 1:06.9 | We don't know what the eye does. |
| 1:07.9 | Us Americans, we're like, what does it do? |
| 1:10.0 | No, I think people, some, in some cultures, obviously, it is pronounced my. So I can understand why people say that. We don't know what the eye does. Us Americans, we're like, what does it do? No, I think people, in some cultures, obviously, it is pronounced my. So I can understand why |
| 1:14.2 | people say that. But yeah, it's me. What's up, girl? How are you? I'm so glad. Every time that you, I know people, you get so annoyed if he was saying this, but it's, I don't hear your accent when you sing. So when I hear you talk, I'm like, my girl is from London. Everyone's like, oh, wait, hold on. |
| 1:26.6 | What's going on here? |
| 1:27.7 | Yes. I was asking you about my boy, Daniel Kalulia, who's also from South London. South London. So, like, what is South, what's tea? Like, what's the energy there? We're definitely, we definitely give, like, main character syndrome, like, for sure. we're south side of the river |
| 1:42.8 | so there's a lot of talent that comes |
| 1:45.2 | out of South London |
| 1:46.7 | So yeah I'm just going to say syndrome, like for sure. We're south side of the river. So there's a lot of talent that comes out of South London. |
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