But Tom came along, and something changed. I love my career and wanted to just keep living my life. 'We both wanted it so badly, which was not what I thought my life would be. Then when we met, it was instantaneous - 'Oh my God, I want to have a kid with you.' 'As a young girl I dreamed of it, but I became involved in my career. 'This was not a goal of mine,' says Cuoco, lounging in bed at home in the L.A. (So was an Emmy nomination for Pelphrey, as Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series, for his role as Ben Davis in Ozark.) It was love at first sight, and within months, daughter Matilda was on the way. Having a baby, she says, 'just wasn't on my radar.' Then, last year she met actor Tom Pelphreyat a party for Netflix's Ozark. between the fifth and ninth months of Cuoco's pregnancy - something no one expected when she signed on, including Cuoco herself. All their dreams kind of went down the drain.' They're stressed, and it's weighing on their relationship. 'It's about a normal couple who have kind of lost their spark,' Cuoco says. When a toilet overflows and they call a plumber (Tom Bateman), their lives take a very unexpected turn - and their subsequent capers offer a satirical look at America's obsession with true crime. real estate agent and true-crime devotee, he's Nathan, a former tennis star who's suffered a career-ending injury. The comedic thriller stars Cuoco and Chris Messina as the Bartletts, a down-on-their-luck couple: she's Ava, an L.A. Watch our Under the Cover video with Kaley Cuoco She doesn't overthink things in her life and her choices,' says Craig Rosenberg, creator–executive producer of Based on a True Story, which drops all of its eight episodes on June 8. 'I don't hate this.'Ĭuoco rolls with it and gives her blessing to use the shot. The photographer studies the image, with messy wisps of Cuoco's naturally-brown-for-pregnancy hair framing her open-mouthed, funny-girl face.

After clipping the dress to fit tighter around her ready-to-pop bump, Cuoco decides to scrap the look. 'I look huge in this,' says the Emmy-nominated actress-producer, who is not accustomed to glamorous fashion shoots while eight-and-a-half months pregnant. Patrick's Day, two weeks before Kaley Cuoco gives birth to her first child, and the star of Peacock's Based on a True Story strikes a hilarious wide-eyed pose in a floor-length, pleated green gown.

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