Mindy Kaling said she won’t divulge the identity of her daughter’s father until she tells her first.
Kaling gave birth to her daughter in December 2017 and since has been very private about her, hiding her daughter’s face in Instagram posts. She says in an interview with the New York Times, “I could write stories about mothers, about my relationship with my daughter – but I don’t know. It gets so Postcards From the Edge. I think people are often surprised that for someone who seems as open as I am on social media and who writes things that seem drawn from my life, I find that stuff really private.”
Kaling says she’s surprised at how much she enjoys being a mom, because she didn’t think she had a big maternal instinct. “I’m very impatient, and having a baby requires an amount of patience that I was worried about.” She says, “But they don’t tell you that the thing will look so much like you, and do things that are so sweet and adorable, that you’ll naturally not have the same impatience that you would have with a stranger or someone who works for you.”
According to Deadline.com the actress is currently working on a Netflix series that will be a semi autobiographical coming of age comedy inspired by Kalings childhood. Kaling will co-create, co-write, and serve as executive producer and showrunner alongside Lang Fischer, who worked on The Mindy Project with her.
The actress says that the main character for the show is not her, but has many similarities, one of which is being a hothead. She says, “One of the things I wanted was for her to be a hothead because it is so unacceptable in society to be an angry Asian woman. You’re supposed to be demure and agreeable. I always had so much impatience and ambition – these things that if you had them, you were supposed to have them secretly”.
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