Kaley Cuoco is 40 and is about to relive the experience she already had with Matilda, her first daughter.
In June 2026, she announced on Instagram that she is expecting her second daughter with 43-year-old Tom Pelphrey, her fiancé since 2024. The couple had already been a team since little Matilda was born in 2023, and now they are adding another chapter to a story that began after Cuoco went through two previous marriages.
What no one expected was the perfect intersection of career and personal life: on September 14, Pelphrey won his first Emmy for ‘Task’ and used his speech to talk about her, visibly pregnant among the audience.
Cuoco is not an isolated case — she joins names like Anne Hathaway, Aubrey Plaza, Natalie Portman, Ciara, and Rozalén, all of whom became mothers after 40 in 2026, a trend that no longer surprises anyone but continues to spark conversation about the timing of motherhood today.
