Receiving an NAACP Image Award and a BET Young Stars Award are big accomplishments. Actress and TV host Keke Palmer has been awarded each prestigious honors, but she says to at the present time, her best accomplishment is showing Black girls “that there’s nothing they will’t achieve.” 

The 26-year-old reminded us on Tuesday night when she shared her first Olay Body industrial to Instagram with a heart-touching message.  

Palmer became the brand new spokesperson for the brand last month, and in an interview with ESSENCE, she discussed what it means for representation in the wonder industry. Palmer says it “is so necessary.”

“I used to look at these sorts of commercials on television after I was a little bit girl, and really rarely, if ever, did I see a woman in them that looked like me,” Palmer captioned the Instagram post.

“I all the time thought there was a special form of beauty or hair texture or complexion that you just needed to need to be considered for an actual beauty ad. To not be mellow dramatic or whatever, but REPRESENTATION MATTERS. It truly does,” she continued.

“I’m just an American black girl, each my parents are extremely normal, I’m from a small and what can be considered “a nothing town”. Till at the present time, my best accomplishment will all the time be showing all the women like me that there’s NOTHING THEY CAN’T DO. NOTHING THAT CAN’T BE. NOTHING THEY CAN’T ACHIEVE!!! Whatever I actually have done, you may double. In the event you come from nothing and think there’s something you’re missing, I’m here to let you know you’re not. The one thing you ever may very well be missing, is the idea that what God has for you IS ALREADY YOURS! Take it. Love you.”