Kaley Cuoco and Tom Pelphrey met in 2022 at a party for the Netflix drama Ozark, in which he played Ben Davis. (Her manager brought her to the party, thus facilitating the fated intro.) Cuoco knew right away that she wanted to get serious with Pelphrey, which for her meant becoming a mother. “This was not a goal of mine,” Cuoco told Emmy Magazine in May 2023. “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.’”