Mindy Kaling Admits She Worries About ‘Causing Tremendous Shame’ To Her Family In India, Talks To Meghan Markle About Her Decision To Start A Family On Her Own

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Mindy Kaling speaks candidly about her decision to start a family on her own in a new interview for Meghan Markle’s “Archetypes” podcast.

The Duchess of Sussex and Kaling talk about the joys, challenges, and stigmas of living life as a single, unmarried woman in the chat.

Kaling, who is mom to Katherine, 4, and son Spencer, 2, admits she’s “vulnerable” when talking about why she did not marry. The star of “The Office” shares, “It makes me emotional.

I would love… I have such a great relationship with my dad. We’re so different from each other, but he is just everything to me. “And I do know that that would be so valuable for my kids, you know, that they have a dad. “It wasn’t our family’s lot in life and I do think about it with wistfulness and then also fear, like, ‘What will they think when they get older about that?'” READ MORE: Mindy Kaling Talks Casting Reese Witherspoon’s Son Deacon Phillippe In ‘Never Have I Ever’: ‘He’s Obviously So Talented’ Kaling, whose parents are from India but she was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, adds that she thinks that people probably think of her as a “spinster.” She tells Markle, “There’s a whole Indian angle on it too, to choose to have your own children by yourself. “I haven’t been to India since [I was] 14, but you start thinking, like, Okay, what do my relatives in India think about this?