WEBVTT - Becoming a MOM with Katie Morton 0:00:00.760 --> 0:00:03.800 This is the Ben and Ashley I Almost Famous podcast 0:00:03.840 --> 0:00:04.640 with iHeartRadio. 0:00:06.200 --> 0:00:08.520 Welcome back to the Almost Says Podcast. It's been here 0:00:08.920 --> 0:00:11.280 with you today on the pod, and today I'm connecting 0:00:11.320 --> 0:00:14.400 with someone across the pond who we all got to 0:00:14.440 --> 0:00:17.239 know back on Colton season of the Bachelor and again 0:00:17.320 --> 0:00:21.160 during her time on Bachelor in Paradise season six. Now 0:00:21.160 --> 0:00:25.160 she's living her best life over in the UK. It's 0:00:25.320 --> 0:00:31.040 Katie Morton. Hello Katie, Hi, it has been a while 0:00:31.080 --> 0:00:32.120 since we've gotten to talk. 0:00:32.680 --> 0:00:36.360 I know, honestly, how are you? I know we're gonna 0:00:36.360 --> 0:00:38.920 ask how I am, et cetera about how are you? 0:00:38.920 --> 0:00:41.440 You know, Katie, I am in a really fun season 0:00:41.479 --> 0:00:48.120 of life and I cannot express to you how different 0:00:48.159 --> 0:00:53.720 it really is. It's like, you know, two years ago, 0:00:54.400 --> 0:00:56.680 a good day would mint I got a workout in 0:00:57.200 --> 0:00:59.680 and I worked and then I had some time to 0:00:59.720 --> 0:01:05.000 like read or chill and then hang out. Yeah, those 0:01:05.040 --> 0:01:09.400 things still exist, not as frequently, and a good day 0:01:09.440 --> 0:01:12.280 has enhanced with like this morning, before I did this, 0:01:13.200 --> 0:01:15.680 my wife had a meeting and Whennie and I went 0:01:15.720 --> 0:01:17.960 out bug hunting in our yard for like an hour 0:01:17.959 --> 0:01:20.360 and a half, and that was incredible, Like let me 0:01:20.440 --> 0:01:23.560 tell you, there is no greater joy than seeing like 0:01:23.640 --> 0:01:27.679 a little kid get excited about something crawling on the 0:01:27.720 --> 0:01:31.400 ground and that you're excited with them. So life looks different, 0:01:31.440 --> 0:01:32.800 but it's so good. 0:01:33.560 --> 0:01:36.880 Yeah. I keep hearing that it's like having kids opened 0:01:36.920 --> 0:01:40.040 your eyes to seeing life in a new again. Mm hm, 0:01:40.720 --> 0:01:43.440 like a whole new way, and you're re experiencing life 0:01:43.680 --> 0:01:47.280 from a completely different perspective. And I feel like that's 0:01:47.440 --> 0:01:51.800 one thing I'm really excited about and sounds just so magical. 0:01:52.520 --> 0:01:54.640 Yeah, and there's an excitement to life that I think 0:01:54.800 --> 0:01:58.240 just like comes off on YouTube because they're excited about everything, 0:01:58.320 --> 0:02:02.120 and you're now excited about everything. And so many people 0:02:02.200 --> 0:02:04.040 had so many different things to me to say to 0:02:04.080 --> 0:02:07.200 me about having kids. Right some were like super jacked 0:02:07.200 --> 0:02:09.239 about it and said, hey, this is the coolest thing ever. 0:02:09.400 --> 0:02:12.960 Others were like, oh, there goes your golf game, and 0:02:13.280 --> 0:02:17.320 it's yeah, it's one hundred percent good. Like there are 0:02:17.440 --> 0:02:19.280 like things that I wish I didn't have to do, 0:02:19.360 --> 0:02:22.160 like my knees hurt from squatting a thousand times a day. 0:02:23.040 --> 0:02:26.400 But I think the perspective is when you are in 0:02:26.400 --> 0:02:29.080 the right place for it, there's no greater gift. 0:02:29.639 --> 0:02:31.680 I think the good probably always the bad. 0:02:32.160 --> 0:02:33.560 I couldn't even tell you. I was trying to think 0:02:33.560 --> 0:02:36.280 when I said it, like, what is something bad that 0:02:36.320 --> 0:02:38.760 I have to that Jess and I have to do now? 0:02:38.880 --> 0:02:40.600 And I can't really even think of anything bad. There's 0:02:40.639 --> 0:02:43.160 like unfortunate things like I still don't love cleaning a diaper, 0:02:43.240 --> 0:02:44.840 but you do it and it's not that bad. 0:02:44.919 --> 0:02:46.920 Yeah, it's kind of like I don't like not that 0:02:47.000 --> 0:02:48.600 this is a comparison, but like I don't like doing 0:02:48.600 --> 0:02:49.080 the dishes. 0:02:49.560 --> 0:02:51.600 Yeah it is. It's very like it's like. 0:02:51.680 --> 0:02:53.240 It's a part of life, like you have to do it. 0:02:53.240 --> 0:02:54.480 It's not making my life worse. 0:02:54.919 --> 0:02:56.040 It's not making my life. 0:02:56.080 --> 0:02:57.800 It's making my life better in the sense I'm not 0:02:57.840 --> 0:03:02.320 living in filth. Yeah, obviously it's completely not the same 0:03:02.320 --> 0:03:04.000 as having a baby, but there's so many things in 0:03:04.040 --> 0:03:05.280 life that it's going to be like, yeah, I don't 0:03:05.320 --> 0:03:06.440 like that, but I have to do it. 0:03:06.840 --> 0:03:09.600 Yes, Katie, you were entering into something I would my 0:03:09.680 --> 0:03:12.200 only advice to you would be to say, buckle up, 0:03:12.200 --> 0:03:13.840 it's going to be an incredible ride. 0:03:14.320 --> 0:03:16.839 Okay, great, and you can do it. 0:03:16.919 --> 0:03:20.160 So, Hey, you're living in the UK, now, obviously we 0:03:20.240 --> 0:03:22.200 just got in with the World Cup over here in 0:03:22.240 --> 0:03:25.840 the States and England finished the highest day finished since 0:03:25.919 --> 0:03:31.920 their win in nineteen sixty six. What's the vibe like there, 0:03:31.960 --> 0:03:36.200 Because I know there were high expectations. 0:03:35.480 --> 0:03:38.880 Right, there was high hopes. I'm not sure if the 0:03:38.960 --> 0:03:41.880 expectations were as high as the hopes were to be 0:03:41.920 --> 0:03:44.760 completely honest. Also, British people are super known for like 0:03:44.800 --> 0:03:47.520 sweeping things under the rug. So as soon as we 0:03:47.720 --> 0:03:53.880 did not win, it was very much like, oh, anyway, 0:03:54.120 --> 0:03:58.760 it was very much as if it didn't happen for 0:03:58.920 --> 0:04:01.240 a lot of people. The next day, it didn't feel 0:04:01.240 --> 0:04:02.760 like the vibes were low. I thought vibes were going 0:04:02.800 --> 0:04:06.080 to be low. It was oh, we aren't talking about 0:04:06.080 --> 0:04:10.120 it really, okay. Yeah, And so it was more like 0:04:11.240 --> 0:04:15.080 as soon as we lost, everyone that I was around 0:04:15.240 --> 0:04:19.360 was like, oh, well, Spain's gonna win basically, and so yeah, 0:04:19.400 --> 0:04:22.520 the vibe was very high though going into the game, 0:04:23.240 --> 0:04:26.160 people were hoping and praying because they were basically going 0:04:26.160 --> 0:04:31.360 to make Monday Bank holiday if England won. And yeah, 0:04:31.400 --> 0:04:33.440 so there's lots of pride, but also at the same 0:04:33.480 --> 0:04:36.960 time England's I'm sure there's groups of people in England 0:04:36.960 --> 0:04:38.560 that are like sore losers. But I feel like there's 0:04:38.600 --> 0:04:40.960 other pockets of England that just pretend nothing ever happened, 0:04:40.960 --> 0:04:42.839 and I was in whatever pocket that was. 0:04:43.360 --> 0:04:46.000 Are you? I mean, I don't even know if this 0:04:46.040 --> 0:04:47.560 is a fair question ask. You don't even have to 0:04:47.560 --> 0:04:50.240 answer it. But if USA played England right now in 0:04:50.279 --> 0:04:52.360 the World Cup Finals, who are you cheering for? 0:04:53.360 --> 0:04:54.320 USA? 0:04:54.480 --> 0:05:05.279 Okay, but honestly, Norway the USA, Ya's USA, But it 0:05:05.279 --> 0:05:09.080 would mainly be for funsies to go against everybody I 0:05:09.120 --> 0:05:09.560 know here. 0:05:10.200 --> 0:05:12.080 But also I have a lot of American friends here, 0:05:12.120 --> 0:05:13.440 so we'd all kind of band together. 0:05:14.360 --> 0:05:17.760 The move to the UK happened, I believe in like 0:05:17.800 --> 0:05:21.280 twenty twenty two, correct, So it's been give or take 0:05:21.360 --> 0:05:24.560 four years. Yeah, what's been the hardest part? 0:05:24.839 --> 0:05:31.000 The transition wasn't too hard. It was more figuring out 0:05:31.240 --> 0:05:36.800 like visas all the time, constantly having to either try 0:05:36.839 --> 0:05:38.599 and get like a student. I had to get a 0:05:38.640 --> 0:05:41.560 student visa at one point and did my masters, not 0:05:41.680 --> 0:05:43.800 even to really do my masters, but because I really 0:05:43.880 --> 0:05:46.040 liked it here, I was like, I gotta find a way. 0:05:46.640 --> 0:05:51.000 I just wanted to experience it, and I completely understand 0:05:51.080 --> 0:05:52.840 why you can't just move to a country and then 0:05:52.960 --> 0:05:56.120 just live there. But I really wanted to, so I 0:05:56.160 --> 0:05:58.640 was like, I'm going to do what it takes. So 0:05:59.160 --> 0:06:01.040 I just wanted to have experience. A lot of people 0:06:01.080 --> 0:06:04.480 come over on work visas and with social media and stuff, 0:06:04.600 --> 0:06:06.839 it's just you can't go to work visa Like that's 0:06:06.920 --> 0:06:10.720 not a thing. So I went back to school and 0:06:10.760 --> 0:06:13.679 that was It was the visa stuff that was hard. 0:06:13.720 --> 0:06:15.960 But other than that, I also had like gone through 0:06:16.000 --> 0:06:19.560 a breakup when I first came over. Oh, and that 0:06:20.000 --> 0:06:25.520 was really hard but fine, Like it actually was really 0:06:25.600 --> 0:06:27.880 nice because it kind of like introduced me to England 0:06:28.520 --> 0:06:31.840 and then I really liked it, so it was a 0:06:31.920 --> 0:06:32.599 silver lining. 0:06:33.200 --> 0:06:34.880 So would you go back to get your master's on 0:06:35.120 --> 0:06:36.760 business business? Okay? 0:06:36.800 --> 0:06:37.840 I did business admin. 0:06:38.360 --> 0:06:40.520 Yeah, I guess I don't know this. I don't remember 0:06:40.520 --> 0:06:42.599 this part of your story. I do. I think remember 0:06:42.600 --> 0:06:46.159 a breakup, but you are now married. So you moved 0:06:46.200 --> 0:06:48.360 to the UK, I guess in my mind. 0:06:48.320 --> 0:06:51.560 Dating someone that was from England and we lived We 0:06:51.560 --> 0:06:55.599 were dating for a well over year and a half 0:06:55.720 --> 0:07:00.000 before moving to England and his job was an Englis 0:07:00.120 --> 0:07:04.359 and so we moved here and then I was just like, 0:07:04.440 --> 0:07:08.240 this is not my forever person. Okay, I mean it 0:07:08.279 --> 0:07:10.680 was just clear for me. I just like saw it 0:07:10.720 --> 0:07:12.440 so clearly. And then I saw my life so clearly, 0:07:12.480 --> 0:07:14.000 and then I was like, this isn't my forever person, 0:07:14.760 --> 0:07:17.480 but dang it, I really like it here. So obviously 0:07:17.520 --> 0:07:19.960 I was meant to come here for a reason. And 0:07:20.000 --> 0:07:21.760 at first I was like, am I just being stubborn 0:07:21.920 --> 0:07:23.400 just because I've done all this work? I just don't 0:07:23.400 --> 0:07:26.720 want to go home now? But I really liked it. 0:07:26.760 --> 0:07:28.520 I was like, I feel some sense of peace here 0:07:29.320 --> 0:07:31.440 that I didn't quite feel when I lived in La 0:07:32.000 --> 0:07:33.880 And I'm sure I could have done something easier, like 0:07:33.960 --> 0:07:38.600 moved to Colorado felt sense of peace there, but it 0:07:38.680 --> 0:07:41.240 just so happened that I found a community really quickly 0:07:41.280 --> 0:07:44.560 here and found that sense of peace. So I just 0:07:44.600 --> 0:07:46.160 decided to like send it. 0:07:46.400 --> 0:07:49.000 And then you met Nick, which is your now husband, 0:07:49.360 --> 0:07:52.320 while kind of in the in between over there. 0:07:52.400 --> 0:07:55.960 While I was when I was just about to finish school. Okay, 0:07:56.280 --> 0:07:59.280 I met Nick and on Hinge. 0:08:00.040 --> 0:08:01.360 It or not good for you. 0:08:02.240 --> 0:08:04.800 Everyone's like meeting on Hinge Tuesdays, but we met on 0:08:04.880 --> 0:08:10.240 Hinge and I was dating just generally at that time. 0:08:10.280 --> 0:08:16.000 It was the summer two years ago, and we just 0:08:16.080 --> 0:08:17.760 kind of kept hanging out forever. 0:08:18.480 --> 0:08:18.840 Yeah. 0:08:19.200 --> 0:08:21.160 It was ard of one of those things. It wasn't like, 0:08:21.760 --> 0:08:23.640 oh my god, we just fill madly in love. It 0:08:23.680 --> 0:08:26.440 was just like we just kept wanting to hang out 0:08:26.440 --> 0:08:32.360 with each other and didn't stop. Yeah, and then now 0:08:32.360 --> 0:08:32.880 we're worried. 0:08:33.600 --> 0:08:39.240 Now you're married, and on June eighteenth, Katie, you announced 0:08:39.280 --> 0:08:44.160 that you're expecting. Uh, do you too know the gender 0:08:44.280 --> 0:08:44.840 of the baby? 0:08:45.000 --> 0:08:47.240 Yes, we do. It's a boy. 0:08:47.920 --> 0:08:48.680 It's a boy. 0:08:49.640 --> 0:08:50.199 Yeah. 0:08:50.360 --> 0:08:51.640 How do you feel about boy? 0:08:51.720 --> 0:08:55.480 I mean, I feel so good. It's crazy because for 0:08:55.559 --> 0:08:57.280 many many years I was like, I'm going to be 0:08:57.280 --> 0:09:00.600 a boy mom. There's just like I feel that I'm 0:09:00.600 --> 0:09:02.760 a boy mom. I don't know why I said that, 0:09:02.800 --> 0:09:05.440 because like a girl would be great. And the week 0:09:05.559 --> 0:09:07.440 leading up to finding out the gender, I was like, actually, 0:09:07.440 --> 0:09:09.520 maybe I want a girl, like I know how to 0:09:09.559 --> 0:09:11.920 do girl things. Like I take it back, like maybe 0:09:12.000 --> 0:09:14.240 it's a girl. Maybe a girl, And I was like, 0:09:14.559 --> 0:09:17.560 what about dance, you know? And I was like, but 0:09:17.640 --> 0:09:19.880 I always said I would be a boy mom. And 0:09:19.920 --> 0:09:21.840 then we found out it's a boy, and I was 0:09:21.880 --> 0:09:24.320 over the moon. I was gonna be happy either way. 0:09:24.640 --> 0:09:27.080 Sure, Oh I don't think. I think when that questions asked, 0:09:27.080 --> 0:09:29.960 I don't think there is a a better or worse. 0:09:30.040 --> 0:09:33.400 I do find it interesting, though, because if I was 0:09:33.520 --> 0:09:36.720 honest with myself, I would say, yeah, I was always 0:09:36.720 --> 0:09:39.079 going to be a girl, dad, like a hundred percent 0:09:39.559 --> 0:09:40.000 you were. 0:09:40.040 --> 0:09:41.800 You really were always going to be a girl dad. 0:09:42.040 --> 0:09:44.200 Yeah, like there was zero dow. I mean, I don't know. 0:09:44.280 --> 0:09:47.320 One day, maybe a little boy squeaks in there. But 0:09:47.679 --> 0:09:52.520 I always knew that I was built, you know, to 0:09:52.600 --> 0:09:57.160 get stickers put on my face, and you know, like 0:09:57.520 --> 0:09:58.199 you could have. 0:09:58.160 --> 0:10:00.640 A boy and you will be so great and it 0:10:00.679 --> 0:10:03.800 would make so much sense whatever. But you were going 0:10:03.840 --> 0:10:06.000 to be a girl dad. It was no question. And 0:10:06.040 --> 0:10:10.560 that's literally how I have felt if like, that's how 0:10:10.640 --> 0:10:13.560 I've always kind of felt, like I'm probably going to 0:10:13.600 --> 0:10:14.280 be a boy mom. 0:10:14.600 --> 0:10:16.480 Yeah. Sure, like I just like. 0:10:16.440 --> 0:10:28.360 That's who I am. 0:10:28.480 --> 0:10:29.280 What about Nick? 0:10:29.800 --> 0:10:32.760 He didn't carry either way. He's one of three boys, 0:10:33.679 --> 0:10:36.280 so the chances of having a boy were higher. Yeah, 0:10:36.400 --> 0:10:39.480 let's be honest. He didn't carry their way. But he 0:10:40.120 --> 0:10:43.280 did look a little like for two seconds sad, he goes, 0:10:43.400 --> 0:10:47.760 I thought it was going to be a girl. All yeah, 0:10:47.800 --> 0:10:50.120 like you could just tell like he was like, I 0:10:50.160 --> 0:10:51.560 actually thought I was going to be a girl. And 0:10:51.600 --> 0:10:54.480 the way he looked like was just like I'm excited 0:10:54.480 --> 0:10:56.240 it's a boy. But man, that would have been also 0:10:56.360 --> 0:10:59.200 very cool. And I guess it's not like a gender 0:10:59.240 --> 0:11:02.320 disappointment thing you do like mourn for two seconds, like 0:11:02.520 --> 0:11:04.559 your life could go one way or another, not that 0:11:04.640 --> 0:11:08.160 it's side stone, but for a couple of seconds you're 0:11:08.200 --> 0:11:10.880 like you see it the years. 0:11:11.320 --> 0:11:14.120 Well, and I think I would imagine, if we speak 0:11:14.160 --> 0:11:16.880 for him, if you grew up with all boys, there 0:11:16.920 --> 0:11:19.760 is an excitement to the new of like a girl, 0:11:19.840 --> 0:11:23.760 possibility of hey, the boy would be great, but I've 0:11:23.880 --> 0:11:27.160 done this boy thing for a long time surrounded by boys, 0:11:27.280 --> 0:11:30.600 Like having another like little girl would be exciting. It 0:11:30.600 --> 0:11:31.400 would be different. 0:11:32.040 --> 0:11:34.760 Yeah, And he did say like it would be a 0:11:34.760 --> 0:11:38.920 little me and like when he's talked about it, he'd 0:11:38.920 --> 0:11:41.760 be like, is it be a little you like attitude 0:11:41.760 --> 0:11:44.800 and all. Yeah, but his best friend has a girl, 0:11:44.800 --> 0:11:47.800 and I think his best friend's really softened up having 0:11:47.800 --> 0:11:51.480 a girl. So I think he really has enjoyed seeing 0:11:51.520 --> 0:11:56.120 his friend kind of change in that way. Yeah, So 0:11:56.160 --> 0:11:57.840 I think that's kind of what was behind it. But 0:11:58.000 --> 0:12:00.800 he's going to be a great yeah either. 0:12:00.600 --> 0:12:03.160 Way, Yeah, one hundred percent. No, they definitely do make 0:12:03.200 --> 0:12:08.360 me softer. The obviously, my wife is pregnant right now. 0:12:08.520 --> 0:12:11.520 I this is our second go around. I've seen the 0:12:11.559 --> 0:12:16.360 different stages of pregnancy all miraculous and wonderful, and I'm 0:12:16.360 --> 0:12:20.120 so glad I don't have to do it. But you know, 0:12:20.200 --> 0:12:24.000 you opened up in the past about being diagnosed with narcolepsy, 0:12:25.480 --> 0:12:27.679 and I don't think that's like com I mean, you've 0:12:27.679 --> 0:12:32.080 talked about it publicly, but I was before we got on. 0:12:32.160 --> 0:12:33.600 I wanted to make sure that that was true and 0:12:33.600 --> 0:12:36.400 that you didn't mind talking about it. I know that 0:12:36.520 --> 0:12:40.000 being pregnant makes you very tired, uh, and your energies 0:12:40.000 --> 0:12:44.000 are sucked. I'm assuming and you tell me, I'm just 0:12:44.040 --> 0:12:46.720 this is my question is does narcolepsy make it worse? 0:12:47.160 --> 0:12:49.640 Is there like a like what's happening in your body now? 0:12:50.480 --> 0:12:56.160 Yeah? So, I mean, of course I can't quite compare 0:12:56.640 --> 0:13:01.240 because I don't know without it. But my first trimester, 0:13:02.080 --> 0:13:05.320 like a lot of women, I was so wiped, but 0:13:05.400 --> 0:13:10.679 I did have it felt so uncontrollable with narcolepsy. I 0:13:10.679 --> 0:13:16.280 feel like I've felt times where I felt it being 0:13:16.320 --> 0:13:18.720 more like narcolepsy, and then I felt it being more 0:13:18.840 --> 0:13:22.080 like something I'm not experienced, and that's where I was like, 0:13:22.440 --> 0:13:24.679 there seems to be a difference here between when it's 0:13:24.679 --> 0:13:31.480 a narcaliptic situation and when it's pregnancy or aka the 0:13:31.520 --> 0:13:35.400 thing I've not experienced yet, because narcolepsy feels like I'm 0:13:35.400 --> 0:13:37.800 like weak to my core, like my muscles are melting 0:13:37.840 --> 0:13:39.760 into the bed type of thing, and pregnancy just felt 0:13:39.800 --> 0:13:43.600 like like head tired, like I just had to just 0:13:43.640 --> 0:13:46.120 get to sleep. And there were times when it felt 0:13:46.200 --> 0:13:48.520 like both and I couldn't quite determine either way. I 0:13:48.559 --> 0:13:53.800 was sleeping all the time. And now, because narcolepsy's kind 0:13:53.800 --> 0:13:58.040 of also characterized by not getting RESTful sleep, it's really 0:13:58.080 --> 0:14:02.160 hard to decipher, Like, Okay, I know as people get bigger, 0:14:02.200 --> 0:14:04.520 their sleep isn't as RESTful as well, So like is 0:14:04.559 --> 0:14:07.920 this narclepsy is it pregnancy? What I can say is 0:14:08.600 --> 0:14:11.520 I'm feeling really lucky because I had to get off 0:14:11.520 --> 0:14:16.479 of my narcollepsy medication in order to do this pregnancy 0:14:16.920 --> 0:14:19.240 because there could be a lot of bad side effects 0:14:19.280 --> 0:14:23.200 et cetera. And so I was really nervous that it 0:14:23.400 --> 0:14:28.040 could take me out more than it has, and I 0:14:28.120 --> 0:14:32.560 feel like I'm very well managed. But I have slept 0:14:32.640 --> 0:14:35.920 more during the day than I normally ever would. But 0:14:36.080 --> 0:14:39.960 I'm like, also, other other pregnant people are too. I 0:14:40.080 --> 0:14:43.240 will say, though, I think it's really beneficial for me, 0:14:43.280 --> 0:14:46.120 as someone who's narcleptic and pregnant to not have a 0:14:46.160 --> 0:14:50.320 traditional nine to five. I think that that would be 0:14:50.440 --> 0:14:53.160 a different story, and I think that I would be 0:14:53.920 --> 0:14:58.480 not as effective for whoever my employer was, because I 0:14:58.520 --> 0:15:02.640 can tell I like space out more. I'm just like 0:15:03.280 --> 0:15:06.239 I can get really slow in conversation and my processing 0:15:06.280 --> 0:15:12.320 times are slower, and I'm just tired from I mean 0:15:12.640 --> 0:15:17.760 nine am until until so I have spouts of energy 0:15:17.800 --> 0:15:19.520 and I try and do everything in the morning and 0:15:19.520 --> 0:15:21.880 then in the afternoons. I like, see how I'm feeling, 0:15:22.520 --> 0:15:27.040 but I really can't tell because other women are saying 0:15:27.040 --> 0:15:28.640 they're super tired when they're pregnant. 0:15:28.960 --> 0:15:33.080 So I'm like, I don't know, it sounds like a blessing. 0:15:33.160 --> 0:15:35.600 Then like that you can't tell, Like it sounds like 0:15:35.640 --> 0:15:37.800 it's the best case scenario, right, Yeah. 0:15:37.640 --> 0:15:41.280 Because I have narcolepsy with cataplexy, which is like technically 0:15:41.360 --> 0:15:44.560 the falling over, but I don't fall over sleeping. I 0:15:44.640 --> 0:15:48.040 follow over with big emotions like laughing. I will like 0:15:48.800 --> 0:15:51.240 my knees will go weak and I'll like fall on 0:15:51.280 --> 0:15:53.520 the floor, like I'll like drop to my knees like laughing, 0:15:54.920 --> 0:15:57.800 And that is part of narcolepsy. But it doesn't look 0:15:57.840 --> 0:15:59.200 like it. It just looks like I'm dramatic. 0:16:00.680 --> 0:16:03.240 I mean, I don't want to like derail us here 0:16:03.320 --> 0:16:07.240 from the big moment of you bringing life into this world. 0:16:07.360 --> 0:16:11.560 But narcolepsy is very fascinating to me because obviously I'm 0:16:11.760 --> 0:16:15.160 only familiar with uh well, I'm most familiar with like 0:16:15.200 --> 0:16:17.520 the movie scenes where somebody's driving and all of a 0:16:17.560 --> 0:16:18.280 sudden they're. 0:16:18.120 --> 0:16:20.600 Like or like rat race, like with mister p. 0:16:20.880 --> 0:16:24.200 Yeah. Yeah, Is that how it is or is it different? 0:16:24.240 --> 0:16:28.800 No, it's not. It's it constantly is like misdiagnosed as 0:16:28.880 --> 0:16:33.320 depression or ADHD or like. It takes people eight to 0:16:33.400 --> 0:16:37.280 ten years typically to get diagnosed with narcolepsy because it's 0:16:37.440 --> 0:16:40.960 hides itself as so many other things because technically it's 0:16:41.000 --> 0:16:44.880 excessive daytime sleepiness, but oh so many things can cause 0:16:44.920 --> 0:16:47.960 excessive day time sleepiness, like how late you stay up, 0:16:48.000 --> 0:16:50.320 how much you're on your phone, how stressed you are, 0:16:50.360 --> 0:16:53.560 Like there's a million things, so it's hard for people. 0:16:53.880 --> 0:16:57.160 And I just had a family history of seizures, which 0:16:57.240 --> 0:17:00.400 is why they tested me for seizures and found out 0:17:00.440 --> 0:17:04.399 I had narcolepsy. But I mean, anytime I cry, I 0:17:04.440 --> 0:17:07.360 have to take a nap afterwards because I can't keep 0:17:07.359 --> 0:17:10.040 my eyes open. If I'm laughing like way too hard, 0:17:10.080 --> 0:17:12.800 way too much, I'm like too weak to stand up. 0:17:12.840 --> 0:17:15.040 So that's part of the cataplexy thing. But I'm not 0:17:15.160 --> 0:17:18.840 falling over falling asleep. And I kind of describe it 0:17:18.960 --> 0:17:24.560 as like a toddler, like I get hyper or cranky 0:17:25.000 --> 0:17:26.080 right before I need a nap. 0:17:26.400 --> 0:17:28.640 But you were diagnosed as a teenager. But then, how 0:17:28.640 --> 0:17:32.320 long the world did you do the Bachelor? I don't know. 0:17:32.359 --> 0:17:35.399 I mean I think there's like way medicine, Okay, I 0:17:35.400 --> 0:17:37.480 was gonna say Paradise feels like it would be a 0:17:37.520 --> 0:17:40.200 consistent emotional rollercoaster of needing to sleep. 0:17:40.400 --> 0:17:45.560 Oh it was. It was like Paradise was I obviously 0:17:45.640 --> 0:17:47.360 was on medicine, but at the same time, like your 0:17:47.359 --> 0:17:50.240 medicine's only supposed to you're supposed to still sleep a 0:17:50.280 --> 0:17:53.280 good night's sleep, yeah, and then take medicine and you're 0:17:53.280 --> 0:17:57.840 not doing that. So there was this cry scene that 0:17:58.200 --> 0:18:02.040 I remember with what Wills and I. 0:18:02.440 --> 0:18:05.600 Will blubbering Wills, Okay. 0:18:05.600 --> 0:18:10.760 I was blubbering. I just remember. I was like, my 0:18:10.920 --> 0:18:14.959 brain was malfunctioning. I was not computing. I was crying. 0:18:15.000 --> 0:18:16.600 I felt so tired. I was like, I just want 0:18:16.600 --> 0:18:17.800 to go to bed and I don't want to deal 0:18:17.840 --> 0:18:21.960 with strong emotions right now. And I had no choice, 0:18:22.040 --> 0:18:24.080 and I don't even know what came out of my mouth. 0:18:24.200 --> 0:18:29.080 It wasn't English, it was. But yeah, I think there 0:18:29.119 --> 0:18:31.639 were definitely moments on Paradise where I think there's a 0:18:31.680 --> 0:18:33.320 couple of scenes where I'm doing this and it looks 0:18:33.359 --> 0:18:34.760 like I'm crying, but I'm like, I just want to 0:18:34.760 --> 0:18:37.920 go to bed. Yeah, So yeah, it was hard. 0:18:38.440 --> 0:18:42.840 I bet Okay, switching back gears here, I just want 0:18:42.880 --> 0:18:45.920 to send you a word of support of Hey, yeah, 0:18:46.000 --> 0:18:49.600 pregnancy is not easy on anybody. It's a big deal. 0:18:49.800 --> 0:18:53.040 It's a wild thing. It's crazy when you start to 0:18:53.040 --> 0:18:57.240 think too much about it. And you've got a lot 0:18:57.240 --> 0:18:59.720 of people probably listening to this that are just sending 0:18:59.760 --> 0:19:03.080 their thoughts of support as you continue through it. It's 0:19:03.080 --> 0:19:05.720 worth it, it is, Yeah, And I hope that you 0:19:05.760 --> 0:19:08.439 get like a really good sleeper, Like I hope that 0:19:08.560 --> 0:19:10.399 for you. I hope this little guy comes down and 0:19:10.440 --> 0:19:14.640 he's like, I'm gonna give mom good night's rest. Yeah, 0:19:15.080 --> 0:19:18.400 but it also flies by. I mean goodness, it's like 0:19:18.600 --> 0:19:20.920 three months and all of a sudden, like sleeping gets 0:19:20.960 --> 0:19:22.960 better for most, not all. 0:19:23.040 --> 0:19:25.520 And there's something to be said about adrenaline. Adrenaline will 0:19:25.760 --> 0:19:29.720 carry you far and like, yeah, like it's not like 0:19:29.760 --> 0:19:32.920 because with narcolepsy, like I'm still totally affected by adrenaline, 0:19:33.280 --> 0:19:35.200 and so if I feel like it's like I need 0:19:35.200 --> 0:19:37.040 to do this as like or death, like adrenaline will 0:19:37.080 --> 0:19:37.359 kick it. 0:19:37.880 --> 0:19:41.840 Yeah. Yeah, it's it's uh, it's it's a wild time 0:19:41.880 --> 0:19:44.119 that I don't even hardly remember. And it wasn't that 0:19:44.160 --> 0:19:45.880 long ago for me that the first you just kind 0:19:45.920 --> 0:19:49.240 of do it and then you know, all of a sudden, 0:19:49.240 --> 0:20:03.160 you have a little kid walking around. I am curious though, 0:20:03.440 --> 0:20:06.160 You've done a lot of interesting things in your life. Obviously, 0:20:06.480 --> 0:20:10.400 as we mentioned Nick, you've gotten married. He sounds great. 0:20:10.840 --> 0:20:15.080 You've mentioned his excitement in becoming a dad, but you 0:20:15.200 --> 0:20:19.760 also moved to the UK has what's the wildest UK 0:20:19.960 --> 0:20:23.000 slang that you can't quite get used to or that 0:20:23.080 --> 0:20:24.560 makes you giggle every time you hear it? 0:20:24.920 --> 0:20:28.520 Wildness UK slang? Oh my plate teacher called me popit 0:20:28.640 --> 0:20:29.199 this morning? 0:20:29.600 --> 0:20:30.320 What does that mean? 0:20:30.760 --> 0:20:33.400 She's like, you are right, popit? Or like she said 0:20:33.440 --> 0:20:39.120 something like pop it. That's just like darling, but it's 0:20:39.280 --> 0:20:43.959 very like an East London vibe. But she's said it 0:20:44.000 --> 0:20:46.320 was such a thick accent. So if anyone ever calls 0:20:46.359 --> 0:20:49.840 me popit, I giggle because it just feels so. 0:20:51.600 --> 0:20:54.640 British does yeah, yeah. 0:20:54.520 --> 0:20:57.680 It's like you get pop it and she does a 0:20:57.720 --> 0:21:00.879 little thing the whole you all right, you're are you 0:21:00.920 --> 0:21:03.160 all right? People say you are right that that means 0:21:03.200 --> 0:21:05.680 like how are you, but they actually don't expect a response. 0:21:07.080 --> 0:21:10.560 And I used to say I'm okay and you and 0:21:10.600 --> 0:21:14.960 that's not really what they're looking for. It's you all right, 0:21:15.000 --> 0:21:17.040 and then you say you are right and then it's done. 0:21:17.680 --> 0:21:19.960