Kaley Cuoco Shares Childhood Tennis Championship Pic: "Funny How Life Comes Full Circle"

Big Bang Theory star is now planning to marry professional athlete Ryan Sweeting

By Rebecca Macatee Nov 08, 2013 6:46 PMTags

Kaley Cuoco is engaged to professional tennis player Ryan Sweeting, but she also played the sport herself from a very young age.

On Thursday, Nov. 7, the Big Bang Theory star Instagrammed an adorable throwback picture of one of her "first tennis tournaments" at just 6 years old. "Funny how life comes full circle :)," noted the bride-to-be.

And while Kaley, 27, and Ryan, 26, haven't said "I do" in real life yet, they did go ahead and get "married" on The Ellen DeGeneres Show. (Speaking of which, another fun "full circle" fact is that Kaley played a younger version of Ellen on a 1996 episode of her sitcom!)

"I am very, very happy," Kaley said before her mock nuptials. "Life is so good right now. I cannot even tell you!"

And because she and Ryan got engaged in September 2013 after three months of dating (!), Kaley admitted her engagement might look "a little crazy to some people."

Kaley herself, who split with Henry Cavill after a brief romance in mid-July, was wary about meeting Ryan for the first time. When a mutual friend insisted on introducing the two when Ryan was coming to L.A. for a few days, though, Kaley said yes. "We're still on our first date," she said of her Florida-based fiancé. "He never went home!"