‘This was not a goal of mine’

Kaley Cuoco did not have infants on the mind — till she met Tom Pelphrey.

Speaking to Emmy journal, the Flight Attendant actress opens up about wanting to start out a household quickly after courting Pelphrey. The couple welcomed daughter Matilda on March 30, lower than a 12 months after they made their relationship Instagram-official final May.

Prior to assembly Pelphrey, 40, at a get together for his Netflix collection Ozark final 12 months, having youngsters “just wasn’t on my radar,” Cuoco tells the journal.

“This was not a goal of mine,” says the 37-year-old Emmy nominee, who filed for divorce from second husband Karl Cook within the fall of 2021. “As a young girl I dreamed of it, but I became involved in my career. Then when we met, it was instantaneous — ‘Oh my God, I want to have a kid with you.'”

“We both wanted it so badly, which was not what I thought my life would be,” she provides. “I love my career and wanted to just keep 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 got so blessed — it happened right away.”

The couple revealed that they have been anticipating final October, about 4 months after Cuoco and Cook’s divorce was finalized. The former Big Bang Theory star was beforehand married to tennis participant Ryan Sweeting, from whom she cut up in 2015.

Cuoco’s sudden being pregnant meant some script adjustments for her new present, Based on a True Story, which she was taking pictures on the time. Though her character wasn’t initially written as pregnant, Cuoco was in a position to persuade producers to work her real-life being pregnant into the present.

“I’m like, ‘What if this character was pregnant?’ And they’re like, ‘Umm …’ And I’m like, ‘Think really hard about it because maybe it’s a really good idea — and it might be the only option.’ They were looking at me, and I’m smiling, and they all went, ‘Oh, my God, are you pregnant?’ I’m like, ‘Uh-huh.'”