Both Candice Patton and Iris West-Allen, her onscreen alter ego on The Flash, have come a long way in nine seasons. While Iris went from what Patton calls a "damsel in distress" trope in early seasons to becoming a full-fledged leader of Team Flash, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, and loving wife and mother by the final season, Patton tells EW in our latest cover story that she had a similar journey in real life, albeit for very different reasons.