Keke Palmer is not one to let other people get in the way of her being her most authentic self, and that’s certainly not going to change now that she’s 30.

In celebration of her 30th birthday on August 26, the actor posted a series of sexy, greased-up photos in which she wears a cheeky black unitard. She captioned the pics with a #DurrtyThirty hashtag and a message of gratitude for another year around the sun. (See the photos here.)

But gratitude wasn’t the only message Palmer was sending. The cut of her one-piece revealed a tattoo located juuuuuust under her butt. At first glance, you can make out letters and numbers in cursive script, but it’ll take a bit of zooming in to get a closer look at what it says: January 21, 1994.

It wasn’t long before fans pieced together what the date signifies: It’s the birth date of Palmer’s “partner in crime” and father to her son Leo, Darius Jackson.

Yes, the same Darius Jackson who came under fire earlier this summer after he shamed Palmer for wearing a dress that revealed her “booty cheeks” to an Usher concert.

“It’s the outfit tho.. you a mom,” Jackson wrote in quote-tweet response to a video of Palmer enjoying herself at the show. After facing backlash for passing judgment, Jackson only doubled down, writing in a second tweet, “We live in a generation where a man of the family doesn’t want the wife & mother to his kids to showcase booty cheeks to please others & he gets told how much of a hater he is.” Both tweets have since been deleted from X (the platform f.k.a. Twitter).

Following the drama, Palmer shared even more photos of herself in the offending dress, which she captioned, “I wish I had taken even more pictures but we were running late!”

Rumours of a possible split ensued, though neither party commented directly on the state of affairs. Just two days after Jackson shared his (bad) opinion, however, his Instagram had been wiped of all mention of Palmer, and both parties unfollowed each other.

So what does it all mean? Is the tattoo a fresh piece meant to serve as a reminder that the actor’s “booty cheeks” are her own and that she’ll do whatever she pleases with them?

Honestly, if she and Jackson have reconciled, which may be the case given the pair’s recent IG Live, in which Palmer referred to Jackson as her “partner in crime.” the tattoo is kind of iconic. Because in order to be seen, Palmer needs to be showing off her butt to the public—in spite of her partner’s previous objections. She’s also using her ass as a canvas to show the world that she’s standing with her man, haters be damned. A slay.

Or, ya know. They may be broken up, the tattoo might be old, and “partner” might mean nothing more than partners in coparenting.

This all remains to be seen. And, especially given Keke Palmer’s desire for privacy when it comes to her personal life, it’s a very real possibility that the star may never give us the closure we need. Sometimes a tattoo is worth a thousand words. But sometimes it leaves us with more questions than answers.

This article originally appeared on GLAMOUR US.

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