Mindy Kaling had a "reckoning" after a writer made a comment about her weight - Sitcoms Online Message Boards

TMC · 08-19-2021, 11:54 PM

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Kaling had just started out on The Office when a co-worker in a different writers' room suggested a simple joke: that their character should tell hers she could lose 15 pounds. But to Kaling didn't find the joke funny. "This is my greatest insecurity and someone just called it out. It's really devastating," Kaling recalled to Good Morning America, noting that she was already waking up extra early to go to the gym before work. Pushing aside her hurt feelings, Kaling began to look inward. "I had a reckoning where I'm like, 'People are scrutinizing (me), and not only are they scrutinizing (me), they're verbalizing their displeasure with how I look because I don't look a certain way," she said. "That kind of dissonance has really affected so much of what I write about (and) the kind of characters I play. Almost all of those kinds of things (in my work) come from something really real."

irehtman · 02-23-2022, 01:54 PM

Someone told me she's also whinny and unappealing, but I think the another problem about her is her impatience, which she cannot control at all.

08-19-2021, 11:54 PM	#1
TMC Member Forum Idol Join Date: Jan 09, 2001 Posts: 126,798	Mindy Kaling had a "reckoning" after a writer made a comment about her weight https://www.goodmorningamerica.com/c...ships-79525937 Kaling had just started out on The Office when a co-worker in a different writers' room suggested a simple joke: that their character should tell hers she could lose 15 pounds. But to Kaling didn't find the joke funny. "This is my greatest insecurity and someone just called it out. It's really devastating," Kaling recalled to Good Morning America, noting that she was already waking up extra early to go to the gym before work. Pushing aside her hurt feelings, Kaling began to look inward. "I had a reckoning where I'm like, 'People are scrutinizing (me), and not only are they scrutinizing (me), they're verbalizing their displeasure with how I look because I don't look a certain way," she said. "That kind of dissonance has really affected so much of what I write about (and) the kind of characters I play. Almost all of those kinds of things (in my work) come from something really real."

02-23-2022, 01:54 PM	#2
irehtman Member Forum 4000 Club Member Join Date: Mar 15, 2013 Location: Montgomery County, Maryland Posts: 4,826	Someone told me she's also whinny and unappealing, but I think the another problem about her is her impatience, which she cannot control at all.