The Ben and Ashley I Almost Famous Podcast - Becoming a MOM with Katie Morton

Episode Date: July 23, 2026

Ben is catching up with Bachelor Nation alum Katie Morton! Katie is expecting her first child, and we dive deeper on her narcolepsy diagnosis and if it’s been impacting her pregnancy journey.  Plus life in the UK, and Ben picks up a new British slang word! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Welcome back to the almost famous podcast. It's been here with you today on the pod. and today I'm connecting with someone across the pond, who we all got to know back on Colton's season of The Bachelor and again during her time on Bachelor in Paradise Season 6. Now she's living her best life over in the UK. It's Katie Morton. Hello, Katie.

Hi. It has been a while since we've gotten a talk. I know. Honestly, how are you? I know we're going to ask how I am, et cetera, but how are you? You know, Katie, I am in a really. really fun season of life. And I cannot express to you how different it really is. It's like, you know, two years ago, a good day would meant I got a workout in and I worked and then I had some

time to like read or chill and then hang out. Yeah. That, those things still exist, not as frequently and a good day has enhanced with like this morning before I did this my wife had a meeting and Winnie and I went out bug hunting in our yard for like an hour and a half and that was incredible like let me tell you there is no greater joy than seeing like a little kid get excited about something crawling on the ground and that you're excited with him so life looks different but it's so good yeah I keep hearing that it's like having kids open your eyes to seeing life in a new again. It does.

A whole new way and you're re-experiencing life from a completely different perspective. And I feel like that's one thing I'm really excited about and sounds just so magical. Yeah. And there's an excitement to life that I think just like comes off on YouTube because they're excited about everything and you're now excited about everything. So many people had so many different things to me to say to me about having kids, right? Some were like super jacked about it and said, hey, this is the coolest thing ever. Others were like, oh, there goes your golf game.

And it's 100% good. Like there are like things that I wish I didn't have to do. Like my knees hurt from squatting a thousand times a day. Right. But I think the perspective is when you are in the right place for it, there is no greater gift. I think the good probably always the bad. I couldn't even tell you. I was trying to think when I said it like, what is something being bad?

that I have to, that Jess and I have to do now. And I can't really even think of anything bad. There's like unfortunate things. Like I still don't love cleaning a diaper, but you do it and it's not that bad. Yeah, it's kind of like, I don't like, not that this is a comparison, but like I don't like doing the dishes. Yeah, it is. It's very similar. It's like, it's a part of life.

Like, you have to do it. It's not making my life worse. It's not making my life worse. It's making my life better in the sense I'm not living in filth. Yes. Obviously, it's completely not the same as having a baby. But there's so many things in life that it's going to be like, yeah, I don't like. that but I have to do it. Yes. Katie, you were entering into something I would my only advice to you

would be to say buckle up. It's going to be an incredible ride. Okay, great. And you can do it. So, hey, you're living in the UK now. Obviously, we just got in with the World Cup over here in the States and England finished the highest they finished since their win in 1966. What's the vibe like there? because I know there were high expectations. Right. There was high hopes. I'm not sure if the expectations were as high as the hopes were, to be completely honest. Also, British people are super known for like sweeping things under the rug.

So as soon as we did not win, it was very much like, oh, anyway. So it was very much as if it didn't happen for a lot of people the next day, it didn't feel like the vibes were low. I thought vibes were going to be low. It was, oh, we aren't talking about it, really. Okay. Yeah. And so it was more like as soon as we lost everyone that I was around was like, oh, well, Spain's going to win, basically. And so, yeah, the vibe was very high, though, going into the game. People were hoping and praying because they were basically going to make Monday a bank holiday if one. And yeah. So there's a lot of, Lots of pride, but also at the same time, England's, I'm sure there's groups of people in

England that are like sore losers, but I feel like there's other pockets of England that just pretend nothing ever happened. And I was in whatever pocket that was. Are you, I mean, I don't even know if this is a fair question asked, you don't even have to answer it. But if USA played England right now in the World Cup finals, who are you cheering for? USA, but honestly, Norway. but USA I don't choose USA but it would mainly be for funzies to go against everybody I know here

but also I have a lot of American friends here so we'd all kind of band together The move to the UK happened I believe in like 2022 correct? So it's been give or take four years Yeah What's been the hardest part? The transition wasn't too hard

hard. It was more figuring out like visas all the time. Constantly having to either try and get like a student, I had to get a student visa at one point and did my master's, not even to really do my master's, but because I really liked it here. I was like, I got to find a way. I just wanted to experience it. And I completely understand why you can't just move to a country and then just live there but I really wanted to. So I was like, I'm going to do what it takes. So I just wanted to have that experience. A lot of people come over on work visas and with social media and stuff, it's just you can't get a work visa. Like that's not a thing. So I went back to school and that was, it was the visa stuff that was hard. But other than that, I also had like gone through a breakup when I

first came over. Oh. And that was really hard. But, fine. Like it actually was really nice because it kind of like introduced me to England. And then I really liked it. So it was a silver lining. So would you go back to your master's on? Business. Business. Okay. I did business admin. Yeah. I guess I don't know this. I don't remember this part of your story. I do, I think, remember a breakup. But you are now married. So you moved to the UK, I guess in my mind. I was dating someone that was from England. And we lived, we were. dating for well over a year and a half before moving to England. And his job was in England.

So we moved here. And then I was just like, this is not my forever person. Okay. I mean, it was just clear for me. I just saw it so clearly. And then I saw my life so clearly.

And then I was like, this isn't my forever person. But dang it, I really like it here. So obviously, I was meant to come here for a reason. And at first, I was like,

am I just being stubborn? just because I've done all this work, I just don't want to go home now. But I really liked it. I was like, I feel some sense of peace here that I didn't quite feel when I lived in L.A. And I'm sure I could have done something easier, like moved to Colorado. Like felt sense of peace there. But it just so happened that I found a community really quickly here and found that sense of peace. So I just decided to like send it.

And then you met Nick, which is your now husband while kind of in the in between. over there? While I was when I was just about to finish school. Okay. I met Nick and on Hinge, believe it or not. Good for you. Like everyone's like meeting on Hinge these days, but we met on Hinge and I was dating just generally at that time. It was the summer two years ago. And we just kind of kept hanging out forever. Yeah. That's how it works. It was kind of one of those things. It wasn't like, oh my God, we just fell madly in love. It was just like we just kept wanting to hang out with each other and didn't stop. So, yeah.

And then now we're married. Now you're married. And on June 18th, Katie, you announced that you're expecting. Yes. Do you two know the gender of the baby? Yes, we do. It's a boy. It's a boy.

Yeah. How do you feel about boy? I feel so good. It's crazy because for many, many years, I was like, I'm going to be a boy mom. There's just like, I feel that I'm a boy mom. I don't know why I said that because like a girl would be great. And the week leading up to finding out the gender, I was like, actually, maybe I want a girl. Like, I know how to do girl things.

Like, I take it back. Like, maybe it's a girl, maybe a girl. And I was like, what about dance? You know? And I was like, but I always said I would be a boy mom. And then we found out it's a boy and I was over the moon. I was going to be happy either way. Sure.

Oh, I don't think, I think when that question's asked, I don't think there is a better or worse. I do find it interesting, though, because if I was honest with myself, I would say, yeah, I was always going to be a girl dad. Like, 100%. Right. You were. You really were always going to be a girl dad. Yeah. Like, there was zero doubt.

I mean, I don't know one day maybe a little boy squeaks in there. But I always knew that I was built, you know, to get stickers put on my face and, you know, do this thing. Like, you could have a boy and you will be so great. And it would make so much sense, whatever. But you were going to be a girl dad. It was no question. And that's literally how I have felt. If like, that's how I've always kind of felt like I'm probably going to be a boy mom.

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I actually thought I was going to be a girl. And the way he looked, like, was just like, I'm excited. It's a boy, but, man, that would have been also very cool. And I guess it's not like a gender disappointment thing, but you do, like, mourn for two seconds. Like, your life could go one way or another, not that it's stone.

But for a couple of seconds, you're like, you see the years. Well, and I think I would imagine if we speak for him, if you grew up with all boys, there is an excitement to the new of like a girl possibility of, hey, the boy would be great, but I've done this boy thing for a long time surrounded by boys.

Like having another like little girl would be exciting. It would be different. Yeah. And he did say like it would be a little me. Mm-hmm. And like when he's talking. about it. He'd be like, it'd be a little you, like attitude at all. Yeah.

But his best friend has a girl. And I think his best friend really softened up having a girl. So I think he really has enjoyed seeing his friend kind of change in that way. Yeah. So I think that's kind of what was behind it. But he's going to be a great dad either way. Yeah. Oh, 100%. No, they definitely do make you softer. The, obviously, my wife is pregnant right now. I, this is our second go around. I've seen the different stages of pregnancy, all miraculous and wonderful, and I'm so glad

I don't have to do it. You know, you opened up in the past about being diagnosed with narcolepsy. And I don't think that's like, I mean, you've talked about it publicly, but I was, before we got on, I wanted to make sure that that was true and that you didn't mind talking about it. I know that being pregnant makes you very tired. and your energies are sucked. I'm assuming, and you tell me,

I'm just, this is my question, does narcolepsy make it worse? Is there like a, like what's happening in your body now? Yeah, so I mean, of course I can't quite compare because I don't know without it, but my first trimester,

like a lot of women, I was so wiped, but I did have, it felt so incontacted, incontrollable with narcolepsy, I feel like I've felt times where I felt it being more like narcolepsy and then I felt it being more like something I'm not experienced. And that's where I was like, there seems to be a difference here between when it's a narcoleptic situation and when it's pregnancy or, aka the thing I've not experienced yet. Because narcolepsy feels like I'm like weak to

my core. Like my muscles are melting into the bed type of thing. And pregnancy just felt like like head tired. Like I just had to just get to sleep. And there were times when it felt like both and I couldn't quite determine. Either way, I was sleeping all the time. And now, because narcolepsy is kind of also characterized by not getting restful sleep, it's really hard to decipher like, okay, I know as people get bigger, their sleep isn't as restful as well. So like, is this narcolepsy? Is it pregnancy? what I can say is I'm feeling really lucky because I had to get off my narcolepsy medication in order to do this pregnancy because there could be a lot of like bad side effects,

etc. And so I was really nervous that it could take me out more than it has. And I feel like I'm very well managed, but I have slept more during the day than I normally ever would. I'm like also other other pregnant people are too. Yeah. I will say though, I think it's really beneficial for me as someone who's narcoleptic and pregnant to not have a traditional nine to five. I think that that would be a different story.

And I think that I would be not as effective for whoever my employer was because I can tell I like space out more. I'm just like I can get really slow in conversation and my process. missing times are slower and I'm just tired from, I mean, 9 a.m. until until. So I have spouts of energy and I try and do everything in the morning. And then in the afternoons, I like see how I'm feeling. But I really can't tell because other women are saying they're super tired when they're pregnant. So I'm like, I don't know.

I mean, it sounds like a blessing then, like that you can't tell. Like it sounds like it's the best case scenario, right? Yeah, because I have narcolepsy with cataplexy, which is like technically the falling over, but I don't fall over sleeping. I follow over with big emotions, like laughing. I will like, my knees will go weak and I'll like fall on the floor. Like I'll like drop to my knees like laughing. And that is part of narcolepsy. But it doesn't look like it.

It just looks like I'm dramatic. Interesting. I mean, I don't want to like derail us here from the big moment of you. bring life into this world. But narcolepsy is very fascinating to me because obviously I'm only familiar with, well, I'm most familiar with like the movie scenes where somebody's driving and all of a sudden they're like, or like rat race like with Mr. B. Yes.

Yeah. Is that how it is or is it different? No, it's not. It constantly is like misdiagnosis depression or ADHD or like it takes people eight to 10 years typically to get diagnosed with narcolepsy because it hides itself as so many other things because technically it's excessive daytime sleepiness but oh so many things can cause excessive daytime sleepiness like how late you stay up how much you're on your phone how stress you are like there's a million things so it's hard for people and I just had a family history of seizures

which is why they tested me for seizures and found out I had narcolepsy um but I I mean, anytime I cry, I have to take a nap afterwards because I can't keep my eyes open. If I'm laughing like way too hard, way too much, I'm like too weak to stand up. So that's part of like the cataplexy thing. But I'm not falling over, falling asleep. And I kind of describe it as like a toddler. Okay. I get hyper or cranky right before I need a nap.

But you were diagnosed as a teenager. But then how in the world did you do the bachelor? I don't know. I mean, I think there's like ways to birth. Medicine. Oh, medicine. Okay. I was going to say Paradise feels like it would be a consistent emotional roller coaster of needing to sleep.

Oh, it was like, Paradise was, I obviously was on medicine, but at the same time, like, your medicine's only supposed to, you're supposed to still sleep a good night sleep. Yeah. And then take medicine. And you're not doing that. So there was this cry scene that I remember with Wills. and I was blubbering wills. Oh, okay. And I was blubbering.

And I just remember I was like, my brain was malfunctioning. I was not computing. I was crying. I felt so tired. I was like, I just want to go to bed and I don't want to deal with strong emotions right now. And I had no choice. And I don't even know what came out of my mouth. It wasn't English.

It was like, but yeah, I think there were definitely moments on Paradise, I swear. I think there's a couple scenes where I'm doing this and it looks like I'm crying, but I'm like, I just want to go to bed. Yeah. So yeah, it was hard. I bet.

Okay, switching back gears here. I just want to send you a word of support of, hey, yeah, pregnancy is not easy on anybody. It's a big deal. It's a wild thing. It's crazy when you start to think too much about it. And you've got a lot of people probably listening to this that are just sending their

thoughts of support as you continue through it. It's worth it. It is. Yeah. And I hope that you get like a really good sleeper. Like I hope that for you. I hope this little guy comes out and he's like, I'm going to give mom good night's rest. But it also flies by. I mean, goodness, it's like three months and all of a sudden like sleeping gets better for most. Not all. And there's something to be said about adrenaline. Adrenaline would carry you far. And like it's not like, yeah. Like it's not like because with narcolepsy, like, I'm still totally affected by adrenaline. And so if I feel like it's like I need to do this at cyber death, like adrenaline will kick it. Yeah, yeah.

It's a wild time that I don't even hardly remember. And it wasn't that long ago from me that the first. You just kind of do it. And then, you know, all of a sudden you have a little kid walking around. Eating well shouldn't be complicated. But somehow it turns into recipes, prep, cleanup, and half your Sunday gone. Factor solves all that. These are fresh, ready-to-eat meals designed by dietitians, delivered to your door, and ready in just minutes.

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Oh my God. And many, many more. Open your free High Heart Radio app. Search Delivering happen is with Nick Duturo. And listen now. I am curious, though. You've done a lot of interesting things in your life. Obviously, as we mentioned Nick, you've gotten married. He sounds great. You've mentioned his excitement and becoming a dad. But you also move to the UK. What's the wildest UK slang that you can't quite get used to or that makes you giggle every time you hear it? Wildest UK slang. Oh, my Pilates teacher called me Poppet this morning. What does that mean? She's like, you're right, Poppet.

Or like, she said something like, Poppet. That's just like, darling. But Poppet is very like an East London vibe. But she said it was such a thick accent. So if anyone ever calls me Poppet, I giggle. Uh-huh. Because it just feels so British. Yeah, she does.

Yeah. Yeah, she's like, you could pop it. And she does it. little thing. The whole, you all right. Are you all right? People say, you all right. That means like, how are you? But they actually don't expect a response. And I used to say, I'm okay. And you. And that's not really what they're looking for. It's more like, you all right. And then you say, you're all right. And then it's done. Oh. So you respond with the same thing. They just said to you. And then like, no one cares. It's like, you're all right. Yeah, you're right. And then you're done. And

And that's it. Yeah. I was like, hey, hey. So that I was very confused in the beginning. And I was answering very robotically and caught off guard because I'd be like, I'm fine. Yeah. Like, I'm okay. So that I guess Poppet is one I can think of off the top of my head because it's just like cute and funny.

The, well, I think that is cute and funny. Have you noticed yourself developing an accent? No. I don't have an accent. I don't think. But I do say different words. say quite quite a lot. I say quite,

you're like, that's quite nice. I say stuff like that, but I don't have an accent. I actually ran into an American this weekend who was while we were in the Cotswolds, and she said, are you guys from America? The whole table was except for Nick. And we were like, yeah.

And I was like, are you obviously from here? And she's like, no, I'm from America. And I was like, you're a British her accent was so and I was like people always ask me that question do you find yourself developing an accent I'm like no how could you kind of thing she can she did it's only she's been here for two years so I was like okay I guess it's not going to happen for me like my accent is how I sound but I think some people are maybe more susceptible yeah I could find myself I mean honestly I think I would be one when I go down and spend

months in Honduras. Like I'll I'll be starting to like speak the speak the language, hear the language, understand the language, use similar like slang in terms of they use in the, yeah, in the region that I'm in. And then I get back here and I'm a month back in the States

and I don't have any of it left. Like I don't know. I'm a weird one like that. I'm very susceptible to the environment I'm in, I think. Well, I say the words and some of the slang, but there's a difference between completely having the accent. And sounding like you are from there. Yeah.

I was susceptible to mocking when I first got here on accident. Really? Not mocking, but like, kind of. Because if someone had a really strong accent, I would almost do it back. Sure, that happened. Yeah, I'm glad you said that. It makes sense. Like, you would, it's almost like watching a movie and like quoting the line back

when it's like somebody British on the movie. You're like, that's like a really cool way they said that. And then you say it back to them. Yeah. And then like, what do you do? Yeah, and it's like, oh, sorry. Yeah, me too. I didn't mean it.

Yeah. Hey, Katie, as we close up here, it's so good to catch up with you. I, you know, there's a lot of reasons why I want to have you on a talk. One of the biggest is obviously, you know, the celebration of a marriage and life coming into the world. What are you and Nick, if you can speak for him, most excited about when it comes to being parents? Or most nervous about. Does the nerves outweigh the excitement right now? And that's okay if it does.

I think in the beginning it did because it all felt like, oh, okay. So we're, okay, so I'm pregnant. And so it felt very like, okay, this is big, this is a big deal. Because up until then, it's very conceptual. Like it's so much of like a concept. Like I couldn't quite make it real in my head. I think what we're most, I'm most nervous about naturally is just the, labor day, the day of giving birth.

I think what we're most excited about is probably also the day of giving birth simultaneously, but also I'm excited to see us both change in the way that our hearts will both expand because I think we're both filled with a lot of love. and I'm excited to kind of just like fall in love with something so much. I feel like that's my biggest excitement is like I get something to like fall in love with. That's all ours. So yeah. Yeah, there's many a night where we'll be laying in bed as a family and just looking me and say,

can you believe she's ours? And you just can't. It's impossible. And that first day is, is a wild experience for you and Nick and everybody involved and then it is just filled with the coolest thing ever and that's what I want to share is it's you are going to be great you're going to rock it it's going to be an incredible ride here of a life full of love let me tell you that is one thing I can promise you is love is not the issue there is so much love

that comes and it's the greatest thing ever and so I'm pumped for you. I'm excited for the two of you to do this together. And I'm also excited for that first moment where you, because I do it with my wife, I know she does with me, like when you see Nick step into that dad role and you're watching this person that you love, love on this other thing that you love. And goodness, the world never be the same. Yeah, it just changes everything. It's the best. Crazy. Yeah. So. Yeah, that's really crazy. Yeah. It's, fun. I'm so happy for you. No, thank you. I'm happy for you. It's a thing. It's a good thing to celebrate. Yeah. It's a fun chapter in life that you're, you said it perfectly. Like, it's all conceptual.

And I was the most nervous person internally leading up to having a child. Like, wait, do I really think I can do this? Do I really want to do this? Was a question. Yeah. How am I going to do this? That was my questions in the first trimester. And now I'm more of like, it's already happening. Yeah. And then once it happened. you're like, oh yeah, like this is all, this is the best. Yeah, it's been like, whoa, oh my God. Okay, do I actually want to be a parent? Well, okay, well, no, I'm going to. So it's very much like.

And then you and then you are. And then you don't question anything. Yeah. More than if you know how to do it and you'll figure it out along the way. Nobody does perfectly. So Katie, pump for you. We'll be following your journey. When's the due date?

End of November. End of November. Thanksgiving baby. There you go. The holiday babies. We're due to end of December. So we'll, if you need anything. Oh, you're due to end of December.

Yeah. Holiday babies. Yeah, they're just, I just don't want them to have to share a birthday with a holiday. That's my one hope, selfish hope for them. Yeah. Katie, congrats. Keep being you. Thanks for jumping on today.

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