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Mindy Kaling Looks Back At ‘Devastating’ Moment A Co-Writer Tried To Make A Joke About Her Body

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Mindy Kaling is looking back at how her real-life experiences have shaped her career. Recalling how when she was 25, and working as a writer and actor, one of her co-writers on the show suggested making a joke about how her character could lose 15 pounds. “This is my greatest insecurity and someone just called it out,” she told “Good Morning America” on Thursday. “It’s really devastating.” Kaling didn’t name the show. “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.

That kind of dissonance has really affected so much of what I write about [and] the kind of characters I play,” Kaling continued.

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