
When Youth Meets Exploitation: Lovato and Palmer on Age-Gap Romances
Demi Lovato and Keke Palmer, both former teen stars, spoke about dating older partners during their teenage years on the Baby, It’s Keke Palmer podcast, explaining how the pressures of early fame and being breadwinners pushed them toward relationships with older men and how they now view those romances as exploitative and inappropriate, tying their experiences to their Disney/Nickelodeon past and noting Hilary Duff’s 'Mature' and Lovato’s '29' as artistic reflections on those dynamics.

