B&B's Karla Mosley Opens Up About First-Time Motherhood

"Total joy” is how Karla Mosley describes her reaction to learning that she was pregnant.

- Tom Stacy

“I wanted to be a mom my whole life. As long as I’ve wanted to be an artist, I’ve wanted to be a mom. I grew up with such a wonderful mother, an aunt, and seeing my sister and my friends, I just felt grateful to have the opportunity.”

While the actress anticipated sharing the news with her family, there was one other person she had to inform — her partner, John Rogers, although, she recalls, “He actually kind of told me. I was like, ‘I’m feeling a little funny,’ and we were actually going to church that morning and after we walked out, he said, ‘We are.’ And I said, ‘We are what?’ I took a test two days later and he was right. He’s very intuitive.”

Mosley’s pregnancy was pretty smooth sailing, she happily reports. “If I can rate it, it was a 10. I really lucked out. I did have some nausea in the beginning, but the worst of it was being tired. I’m such an active person and I hated that I had to slow down. But it was a good thing. I needed to learn how to slow down, and it’s a lesson that I’m still learning today.” Mosley not only worked at B&B through her pregnancy but, “I was able to do a play, a very physical play, up until almost eight months of pregnancy,” she relays. “I traveled. I exercised. I also surrendered to my body in a way that I never have before. It was the first time in my life that I was gaining weight, and my body was like, ‘I’m gonna keep gaining weight, so get used to it! Just trust that it’s doing exactly what it’s supposed to do.’ And I did.”