Never has Mindy Kaling ever enjoyed comments about her body.
The 46-year-old knows what it’s like to be curious about a celebrity’s physical transformation, so she understands why people are curious about her weight loss over the years.
“It’s sometimes no fun when one of your favorite actors loses weight,” Mindy told Bustle in an interview published May 19. “You have an idea of what they were like when you grew attached to them, and it made them endear themselves to you.”
She added, “Of course, it’s never a joy to be scrutinized, but also I truly understand it, as someone who consumes pop culture.”
While the Never Have I Ever creator has said that she no longer pursues weight loss for “vanity reasons,” her children—including Katherine “Kit,” 8, Spencer Tracy, 5, and Anne, 2—are major motivators in her health journey.
Quipping that she has to “live at least 20 more years” for her kids, Mindy shared, “Now I want to lose weight or have lost weight because I want to stave off things like diabetes. I had it on both sides of my family, and trying to avoid those kinds of things will, I think, help longevity for me, and that’s my goal.”
