Swearing off marriage? Life changing… plastic surgery? Kaley Cuoco's fame has never been as
red hot as it is now, but unlike many celebrities, her life is an open book.
Keep watching for the details.
Kaley Cuoco appeared on 8 Simple Rules ... For Dating My Teenage Daughter for all three seasons
of the show's run, but tragedy struck when lead actor John Ritter died early into filming Season
2. In a conversation between Cuoco and fellow actor Elizabeth Olsen, published in Variety, Cuoco
called Ritter her entire world. Following Ritter's untimely death, the show was retitled 8 Simple
Rules, and various characters were brought in to replace his patriarch, although the dynamic was
never the same. Cuoco had become especially close to Ritter, and she recalled he once told her,
"I really think you're going to go places."
One thing that stuck with Cuoco was how kindly Ritter treated
people on set — something that she has tried to emulate. She told Variety,
"The respect and the kindness and the joy he brought to that set,
it was unbelievable. In the future, if I was that No. 1, I knew how I was going to run my set."
"You need a ride home?"
"Mmhm."
The Big Bang Theory premiered on CBS in 2007 and eventually rose to the top of the heap in ratings.
It was still going strong in its 12th season when
Jim Parsons — who played Dr. Sheldon Cooper — decided to call it quits.
It was a shock for Cuoco, who has maintained she was game to continue playing Penny. Still,
she knew that if Parsons wanted out, that was the end for them all. She told Variety,
"That was the one thing we all agreed on — we came in together, we go out together."
For Cuoco, one of the big challenges of moving on from the role that made her famous was how to
convince people she could do other things. She told Women's Wear Daily that she wasn't sure
if she would be taken seriously after the end of the popular sitcom, which caused her to branch out
and find her own content. She optioned the source material for her series The Flight
Attendant before even reading the book, and hit new heights in terms of awards and acclaim.
Like so many big-name actors, Kaley Cuoco has her own production company that has a hand in
many of her projects. According to Glamour, Cuoco started the company — Yes, Norman Productions,
named after her beloved rescue dog — in 2017, while she was still working on The Big Bang
Theory. She already had The Flight Attendant optioned, which likely helped her secure a
multi-year deal with Warner Brothers TV. In May 2021, she signed a new deal with them,
Deadline reported. Despite Cuoco's busy acting career — which includes the film The Man From
Toronto — Yes, Norman has a number of other projects in development. According to Glamour,
the company has optioned the book A Season With Mom and is also creating a limited series in which
Cuoco will play the legendary Doris Day. IMDb also has Cuoco listed as a producer for the film
Role Play, in which she will star opposite Billy Bob Thornton and David Oyelowo. She told TV Guide,
"I've been able to spread my wings in such a different way.
I feel sad because I feel like I came so late to the game with this whole producing thing. And the
other side of it is, I feel good that it started with The Flight Attendant and I learned so much."
"As an actor you do your job and it's great and then you go and you move to your next project. But
the minute you wrap is like when all the work happens."
By all accounts, the cast of The Big Bang Theory was very close,
and Kaley Cuoco even dated her co-star, Johnny Galecki, with whom she remains friends. That said,
Cuoco's friendship with her Flight Attendant co-star Zosia Mamet seems
to be a one-of-a-kind bond. Mamet, who plays Annie, the best friend of Cuoco's Cassie,
told The Hollywood Reporter that the pair met at a chemistry read and immediately hit it off.
In an interview with Glamour, Cuoco admitted that Mamet was her prime source of motivation
during the filming of the show's second season. Mamet lived with Cuoco during that time,
which also coincided with a personal rough patch for Cuoco as she went through her second divorce.
"She's the best. I'm very lucky that I had her."
Cuoco told Glamour,
"There were mornings where I was like, 'I can't get out of bed. I can't go to work.' And she
would get me out of bed, get me dressed, and put me in my car. Multiple times. She visited me on
set on days off [...] because she knew I was having a hard time. It makes me very emotional
because she's become one of my closest friends. I don't know what I would've done [without her]."
"I don't think I would have gotten to work some days without her."
While Kaley Cuoco is definitely not a loser in love,
she is certainly not a winner in marriage. The popular actor has been married twice before,
both times for relatively short periods, and has sworn off ever being wed again. Despite that,
she continues to date and is currently in a relationship with Ozark cast member Tom Pelphrey.
While she was a cast member on The Big Bang Theory, Cuoco dated co-star Johnny Galecki,
which did not become public knowledge until the pair ended their two-year relationship.
Her other famous boyfriends have included singer Jaron Lowenstein and actors Thad Luckinbill,
Kevin Zegers, Josh Henderson, and Paul Blackthorne. She was once engaged to
an addiction specialist named Josh Resnik, and even briefly dated "Superman" himself,
Henry Cavill Her first marriage to tennis player Ryan Sweeting lasted for less than two years,
according to People, and her second marriage to equestrian Karl Cook
lasted only slightly longer, from June 2018 until September 2021. Cuoco told Glamour in 2022,
"I would love to have a long-lasting relationship or a partnership.
But I will never get married again."
It is no secret that most celebrities get at least a couple of nips, tucks,
and tweaks throughout their careers. From botox and fillers to more invasive surgical procedures,
gossip mags and social media accounts have made it a mission to expose what work famous people
have had done. Occasionally, we come across a celebrity who believes in transparency
and who openly discusses their plastic surgery — and Kaley
Cuoco is one of them. Not only has Cuoco discussed the procedures she's had done,
she's also affirmed the positive effects they've had on her sense of self. She told Women's Health,
"Recently, I had a filler in a line in my neck I've had since I was 12. As much as you want to
love your inner self, [...] I'm sorry, you also want to look good. I don't think you
should do it for a man or anyone else, but if it makes you feel confident, that's amazing."
"Hi, I'm Kaley Cuoco. Welcome to my Cosmo cover shot."
Two larger procedures — a nose job and a breast enhancement — have
helped make Cuoco more confident and she calls her breast implants, quote,
"the best thing I ever did" in the Women's Health interview.
In The Flight Attendant, viewers are taken inside the mind of Kaley Cuoco's Cassie Bowden
in a way that is both unique and informative. We learn about Cassie through her "mind palace," a
space the show's writers created to mimic the narrative style of the series' source material.
Steve Yockey explained the concept to The Hollywood Reporter, saying,
"It's a structure that you can build in your head to help you concentrate on things,
remember things, visualize things."
The mind palace was taken to a whole new level in Season 2
when the show introduced multiple versions of Cassie, including a young Cassie, an angry Cassie,
a flashy party girl Cassie, a thoughtful and mature Cassie, and a depressed Cassie.
"Cheers to making better choices, baby! Whoo!"
For Cuoco, the gimmick proved to be challenging,
as it often required her to act opposite herself. She told Collider,
"As an actor, I like to be in the moment. I am incredibly reactive.
I would not call myself a preparer. Shooting this way,
the technicality of it and having to work against my mirror image and my doubles,
we had to throw that out the window. I had to be very exact in my movements and in my words."
Kaley Cuoco has found a few different ways to cope with the stress of life
and to remain mentally healthy, and one of those is embracing her love
of horseback riding. She has credited her horses with keeping her "sane,"
according to Glamour, and reportedly has 25 of them at her Coachella Valley horse trailer.
In addition to her horses, Cuoco has incorporated traditional therapy into
her life over the last couple of years. In a Glamour interview, she discussed how she
started therapy for the first time after filming Season 2 of The Flight Attendant
fresh off the heels of separating from her second husband. She explained,
"My therapist and I are working on forgiveness
and forgiving myself for making mistakes. I think that's been the hardest thing
is just accepting that I'm normal and that I'm not superwoman. I highly recommend therapy to
everyone out there. Even if your life is going really well. I can't imagine life without it."
As evidenced by her aforementioned dozens of horses, Kaley Cuoco is a massive animal lover. She
has posted on her social media about horse rescue programs, and even once offered to purchase a
horse that was abused by its trainer. In addition to horses, Cuoco has also adopted rabbits,
pigs, a goat, and many, many dogs. In fact, she has so many dogs that she refuses to disclose
the actual number, fearing it may exceed the maximum legal amount, Variety reported.
"We have so many dogs right now."
Her appetite for rescuing pups started with pit bulls roughly 15 years ago.
She told the Los Angeles Times,
"I just found them to be so incredible. I realized what great dogs they were,
and how horribly they were seen. And I just didn't want that to happen anymore."
Based upon interviews, it's commonly known that Kaley Cuoco tends to fill her time with
activities both active and creative. We have already discussed a couple of Cuoco's hobbies,
but she has a plethora of other interests that lead us to question
when exactly the woman sleeps. She enjoys kickboxing and yoga. She told Shape in 2015,
"Doing yoga five times a week has transformed my body. I love being toned and having muscle;
it's so sexy and beautiful. And I owe it 100 percent to yoga."
One of Cuoco's most intriguing interests is her love of mugs, which has led her
to become both a collector of these items as well as a creator of them. She told Glamour,
"I cherish my mug collection. People know now that's probably what I'm going to give them. My
love language is gift giving, and I don't mean how much money you spend on someone. I take such pride
in matching the gift with the person. I think so hard on what they will like and what color."