Kaley Cuoco Wanted to Have a Baby With Tom Pelphrey After Meeting

They simply knew! Kaley Cuoco may sense sparks flying with boyfriend Tom Pelphrey from the primary day they met — and was already thinking about their future.

“[Having children] was not a objective of mine,” the Flight Attendant star, 37, advised Emmy journal in a profile revealed on Friday, Could 26, noting it was not on her “radar” to turn out to be a mom. “As a younger woman I dreamed of it, however I grew to become concerned in my profession. Then after we met, it was instantaneous. [I thought,] ‘Oh my God, I wish to have a child with you.’”

She added: “We each needed it so badly, which was not what I assumed my life could be. I really like my profession and needed to simply hold dwelling my life. However Tom got here alongside, and one thing modified. We’re not 20, so we felt like we probably couldn’t wait too long. Then we bought so blessed — it occurred immediately.”

Cuoco and the Ozark alum, 40, had been initially introduced through her manager in April 2022, one month earlier than making their social media debut as a pair.

“It is a very Hollywood story I do know. My supervisor was submitting totally different purchasers and requested me if I knew who Tom was, and she or he goes, ‘Aspect word, he’s single,’” the Meet Cute actress — who finalized her divorce from Karl Cook in June 2022 — recalled throughout an look on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon the next September. “So the months had gone on and we’d by no means met, and I used to be selling Flight Attendant with that very same supervisor, who’s his supervisor. [She asked,] ‘I’m going to the Ozark premiere. Do you wish to include me?’”

She continued on the time: “I bought all dressed up and I used to be standing there. I used to be [outside] the toilet and I used to be ready and I hear this voice — it was Tom — and he’s like ‘The place’s this Kaley?’ It was, like, love at first sight.”

Cuoco — who was beforehand married to Ryan Sweeting between 2013 and 2015 — introduced in October 2022 that she was pregnant with baby No. 1. The 8 Easy Guidelines alum and Pelphrey welcomed their daughter, Matilda Carmine Richie, on March 30.

“They’re each obsessive about Matilda,” a source exclusively told Us Weekly earlier this month. “They’ve a shared album for his or her family and friends that they add footage to every day and love to show off her progress. Kaley additionally loves singing to Matilda, who loves music and to bop her head and dance round.”

Having Matilda has additionally strengthened the duo’s relationship.

“It’s so lovely. I used to be excited for it and also you clearly have some thought of what it could be and the way it cool it could be,” Pelphrey gushed to E! News in April. “Nothing compares to the precise feeling. It’s so wild. … All I want to do is sit at home with Kaley and the baby and by no means go away the home. It’s a miracle. We’re so joyful.”