Mindy Kaling experienced what many standing comics trying to make hopes in New York City: he went from telling jokes stage to join the writers room for a successful TV show and have a supporting role in it at just 25 years old. In addition to having a lot of iconic lines like Kelly Kapoor, Kaling is also responsible for writing some The officelarger episodes, included The Dundies i “Santa Claus secret.” But it turns out to write for The office it wasn’t always as nice as it may seem.
Durant a recent appearance in Good morning America, Kaling recalled the painful experience of when a fellow writer — who also played a character on the show — suggested that his character tell Kelly to lose 15 pounds. “I remember thinking,“ I’m already someone who gets me up before the call at 6:30 to go to the gym to like me, do the elliptical for 45 minutes. You know, that is, this is my biggest insecurity and someone just called me, ”he said. “When that The moment passed, it was so huge for me, and it was one of those things where you can’t express anger and hurt in a room like that. But I think what many writers do — and, in fact, do — is take the truth, put it in a new situation, and make yourself react the way you want to. ”
Kaling ended up using this moment in his own program, The Mindy Project. She has Chris Messina’s character, Danny, tells his character she needs to lose 15 pounds and she immediate challenges he. Kaling also points it out with The Mindy Project, was able to show viewers tMedium-sized women can be protagonists and want them on screen: ssomething that shouldn’t be revolutionary right now, but that’s still uncommon.
“If you were very thin, you could be the leader. Otherwise, you had to be like 250 pounds and you had to be the comic relief of the slaps, ”Kaling points out. “But what was crazy, what was left out, is like this group of people, which is like a majority of American women. People who are not thin fall in love and have children. You know, a lot of this country is this, and we never see it because we underestimate our audience, which is like ‘No, no, no, we just have to look like the thinnest of the fine fall in love’ and that has been the culture. ”