Kaley Cuoco recently shared the shocking nickname she hates being called.
While appearing in Conan O’Brien needs a friend On the podcast, the 38-year-old actress, who lost her rescue dog this month, stated that she doesn’t like people calling her ‘mom.’
After giving birth to her first daughter, Matilda, in early 2023, the former Big Bang Theory star explained that “everyone” started referring to her by the innocuous title.
She said emphatically: ‘What I hate is that now everyone says, “Hey, mom!”
‘What’s that? I got a call on the way here and she said, “How’s mom’s life?” And I said, “It’s the same as 10 and a half months ago.”
Kaley Cuoco recently shared the shocking nickname she hates being called
While appearing on the Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend podcast, the 38-year-old actress stated that she doesn’t like people calling her ‘mom.’
The flight attendant sensation went on to explain that she felt a “visceral, angry reaction” to the term.
‘If they know you have a baby, suddenly you’re a mom and you look good. But it’s different than having a normal good look,” she noted.
It even affected her while she was working on the filming of a recent project.
Kaley, who shares Matilda with her boyfriend Tom Pelphrey, described: “Everyone called me mom so often and I really hid.”
After initially trying to ignore it, he admitted that he began to “really resent everyone.”
In the end, she confessed, “I had my assistant call a meeting and tell everyone to stop calling me mom.” And they did.’
Cuoco and Pelphrey began dating in May 2022, months after she announced her separation from husband Karl Cook.
She announced that they were expecting in October 2022.
After giving birth to her first daughter, Matilda, in early 2023, the former Big Bang Theory star explained that ‘everyone’ started referring to her with the innocuous title.
Kaley and her boyfriend Tom Pelphrey welcomed their daughter Matilda in 2023
Another reason Kaley confessed is when parents use months to keep track of their children’s age.
“I even hate hearing myself say ’10 months,'” she revealed on the podcast about her almost one-year-old daughter. ‘She really bothers me. Its alot. It’s like “almost one o’clock.”
As for her professional life, Cuoco primarily plays the New Jersey wife and mother, Emma, who is married to David’s character, in Role Play.
The trailer for the film, which premiered on Friday, January 12, was released in November.