Kaley Cuoco didn’t have babies on her mind – until she met Tom Pelphrey.
Talk to Emmys review, the Flight attendant The actress talks about wanting to start a family soon after dating Pelphrey. The couple welcomed daughter Matilda on March 30, less than a year after making their relationship Instagram official last May.
Before meeting Pelphrey, 40, at a party for his Netflix series ozark last year, having kids “just wasn’t on my radar,” Cuoco told the magazine.
“That wasn’t my goal,” says the 37-year-old Emmy nominee, who filed for divorce from her second husband Karl Cook in the fall of 2021. “As a young girl, I dreamed of it, but I got involved in my career. Then when we met, it was instant – ‘Oh my God, I want to have a kid with you.'”
“We both wanted it so badly, which wasn’t what I thought my life would be like,” she adds. “I love my career and I just wanted to get on with living my life. But Tom came along and something changed. We’re not 20 so we felt like we probably couldn’t wait too long. Then we were so blessed – it happened right away.”
The couple revealed they were expecting last October, about four months after Cuoco and Cook’s divorce was finalized. the old The Big Bang Theory The star was previously married to tennis player Ryan Sweeting, from whom she separated in 2015.
Cuoco’s sudden pregnancy prompted script changes for her new show, Based on a true story, which she was filming at the time. Although her character was not originally written as pregnant, Cuoco was able to convince the producers to incorporate her actual pregnancy into the series.
“I’m like, ‘What if this character was pregnant?’ And they’re like, ‘Umm…’ And I’m like, ‘Really think about it because that might be a really good idea – and that might be the only option.’ They were looking at me, and I smiled, and they all said, ‘Oh my God, are you pregnant?’ I’m like, ‘Uh-huh.'”