Go With The Flo

B&B’s Katrina Bowden has found a new home in daytime

- Tom Stacy

Katrina Bowden has packed a lot into her first few months on B&B. Her new alter ego, Flo, has aided a baby stealer, alienated his daughter, passed herself off as a birth mother, turned out to be Wyatt’s ex, endeared herself to Quinn, connected with her mom, Shauna, and began a shocking search for her bio dad. “I’m adjusting really well,” Bowden says of the hectic pace. “It’s definitely getting easier every single week for me. I’m having a good time.”

Bowden was no stranger to soaps when she joined the show — her first gig was on ONE LIFE TO LIVE in 2006 as Britney. “When I was a teenager, I started modeling,” she begins of her path to showbiz. “I would come into New York City after school and I’d go on auditions. I was doing commercials and magazines, started taking acting classes and then I booked ONE LIFE TO LIVE. I was a mean girl to Starr, but then 30 ROCK came very shortly after.”

30 ROCK was Bowden’s big break, where she played Liz Lemon’s sexy young assistant, Cerie Xerox. “That’s pretty much the No. 1 thing I get recognized for,” she relays of the NBC sitcom that ran from 2006-13. “I was 17 when I started and learned everything I know about comedy from that show. It was an award-winning comedy, and I got to work with so many incredible actors and comedians. It was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity!”