Mindy Kaling

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Guys calm down. She's just taking her IG pictures from a crazy angle and maybe editing them. Pictures of from Oct 2022 show that she looks to have lost a good amount of weight but she still has the same curves. She's about back to where she was in her early 30s. She may have done this with weight loss drugs (not unlikely) but it's not as dramatic a transformation as it appears. She's just really good at posing and dressing in a way that accentuates her figure.

https://www.usmagazine.com/entertainment/news/mindy-kaling-b-j-novak-joke-about-past-romance-at-emmys/

https://www.lifeandstylemag.com/posts/mindy-kalings-weight-loss-transformation-photos-before-after-pictures/

I said this on page 2, but the racist DCUMommies can't stop. This happens on every thread about Mindy. They just hate that someone who is not white is so much more successful than them.

Hyperbolic much ? Seriously, what success does Mindy have that would supposedly generate jealousy ? Yikes

- a minority .

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Guys calm down. She's just taking her IG pictures from a crazy angle and maybe editing them. Pictures of from Oct 2022 show that she looks to have lost a good amount of weight but she still has the same curves. She's about back to where she was in her early 30s. She may have done this with weight loss drugs (not unlikely) but it's not as dramatic a transformation as it appears. She's just really good at posing and dressing in a way that accentuates her figure.

https://www.usmagazine.com/entertainment/news/mindy-kaling-b-j-novak-joke-about-past-romance-at-emmys/

https://www.lifeandstylemag.com/posts/mindy-kalings-weight-loss-transformation-photos-before-after-pictures/

I said this on page 2, but the racist DCUMommies can't stop. This happens on every thread about Mindy. They just hate that someone who is not white is so much more successful than them.

Hyperbolic much ? Seriously, what success does Mindy have that would supposedly generate jealousy ? Yikes

- a minority .

I mean, half of the posters in the jobs section are more successful than me, plenty of them are minorities.
If I want to be jealous Mindy wouldn’t be the first choice.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:She is talented but I can’t help notice all the hot male leads in her show are mostly white with a couple black, total lack of diversity representation, I mean even little women with setting in 1920 had a Muslim professor and White lotus had a Asian hottie. Does she still hold white men on a pedestal?

Until you’ve been an Indian American female writing and producing in a predominantly white, male dominated industry, you should reserve judgement. She’s don’t a lot to break down barriers in that world.

So selecting Asian / Muslim / Indian hot male actors somehow prevent her from breaking the barrier?
Cool!

I’ve seen this a lot. Many Muslim people are upset that she hasn’t cast more Muslim characters.

I don’t know why they think she’s supposed to carry that torch. Her shows reflect a lot of her upbringing and her personal experiences which was a pretty white, WASP majority. That was her lived experience.

When anyone starts out in a creative field, they start with their personal experiences.

She was a brown, Indian girl in a white world. America was not very diverse in the NE in the 80s.

[Anonymous]

Regarding all of the negative Mindy comments on this thread… I lost 30 pounds a few years ago. It was interesting to me how many people felt comfortable commenting on my weight loss, and many had passive aggressive comments about it. I think a lot of people are negatively triggered by others losing weight - whether it is from envy or loss of feeling of superiority or something else, I don’t know.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:She is talented but I can’t help notice all the hot male leads in her show are mostly white with a couple black, total lack of diversity representation, I mean even little women with setting in 1920 had a Muslim professor and White lotus had a Asian hottie. Does she still hold white men on a pedestal?

Until you’ve been an Indian American female writing and producing in a predominantly white, male dominated industry, you should reserve judgement. She’s don’t a lot to break down barriers in that world.

So selecting Asian / Muslim / Indian hot male actors somehow prevent her from breaking the barrier?
Cool!

I’ve seen this a lot. Many Muslim people are upset that she hasn’t cast more Muslim characters.

I don’t know why they think she’s supposed to carry that torch. Her shows reflect a lot of her upbringing and her personal experiences which was a pretty white, WASP majority. That was her lived experience.

When anyone starts out in a creative field, they start with their personal experiences.

She was a brown, Indian girl in a white world. America was not very diverse in the NE in the 80s.

How is that a torch? HBO Max heavily caters to female audience. And paying female subscribers loves a variety of different eye candies.
When you go to a Michelin restaurant and order the 6 course tasting menu, are you OK that the chef serves you fried chicken for course 1 2 3 4 5 and 6? Will the chef still make money in a year?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am a big fan of Mindy Kaling. Not only she is very talented but she has become successful in Hollywood.

But, since we are talking about how she looks, and the truth is that at one point she was neither fulfilling the beauty standards of Holllywood nor the beauty standards of Bollywood. Though, why should she be expected to meet the beauty standards of any place or culture really blows my mind because she has not made her mark in the world, made her money, gained her fame, opened doors for herself because of her looks.

Mindy Kaling can never be the beauty standards of Indian film industry because Indians prefer women with cuter and fairer features like the North Indian Priyanka Chopra or South Indian Aishwarya Rai. When it came to Hollywood, Mindy Kaling's color and features would be more acceptable as the non-White females. Hollywood is more diverse than Bollywood is for the beauty standards of women in terms of color and features. But, even here, the Black beauty standards within Hollywood is more like what is revered in USA. Skinny is beautiful. (https://www.imdb.com/list/ls003837393/)

Hollywood does not like normal weight women. Unlike Bollywood where curvier women with boobs and a$$ are considered beautiful, Hollywood still worships the skinny women. Every single "chubby" lady from Adele to Rebel Wilson will have the story of becoming beautiful after losing weight. So Mindy Kaling weight loss has become the big story. She is still not a Bollywood Beauty, but she is certainly a Hollywood story now.

Does she look prettier now? I don't know. I think her face is the same. I always thought that her face was a familiar and intelligent face, but I never thought that she was a great beauty. I hope her weight loss was due to health reasons because Indians have the genes for heart diseases, high cholestrol, high BP, stroke and diabetes. If she lost weight by taking diabetes medication - good for her. She is the mom of two kids, she needs to be healthy for them. That is all that matters.

In the end, I wish her well and hope she remains healthy and happy. Her slender apperance now will not make an impact in how Indians view her, but it will change how Americans view her. So that is good.

I also like Mindy Kaling and respect her success.

But that Life & Style magazine link summed up my problem with this weight loss. She doesn't say, "I take Ozempic." She says "I learned that I love exercise." THAT contributes to young women having a completely unrealistic expectation about body types and sizes. I'm not sure why someone on here has decided it means we are racist. I think all Hollywood types are awful when they are dishonest about their workout/diet routines.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:She is talented but I can’t help notice all the hot male leads in her show are mostly white with a couple black, total lack of diversity representation, I mean even little women with setting in 1920 had a Muslim professor and White lotus had a Asian hottie. Does she still hold white men on a pedestal?

Until you’ve been an Indian American female writing and producing in a predominantly white, male dominated industry, you should reserve judgement. She’s don’t a lot to break down barriers in that world.

So selecting Asian / Muslim / Indian hot male actors somehow prevent her from breaking the barrier?
Cool!

I’ve seen this a lot. Many Muslim people are upset that she hasn’t cast more Muslim characters.

I don’t know why they think she’s supposed to carry that torch. Her shows reflect a lot of her upbringing and her personal experiences which was a pretty white, WASP majority. That was her lived experience.

When anyone starts out in a creative field, they start with their personal experiences.

She was a brown, Indian girl in a white world. America was not very diverse in the NE in the 80s.

How is that a torch? HBO Max heavily caters to female audience. And paying female subscribers loves a variety of different eye candies.
When you go to a Michelin restaurant and order the 6 course tasting menu, are you OK that the chef serves you fried chicken for course 1 2 3 4 5 and 6? Will the chef still make money in a year?

Eye candies? Fried chicken?
Wut?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Regarding all of the negative Mindy comments on this thread… I lost 30 pounds a few years ago. It was interesting to me how many people felt comfortable commenting on my weight loss, and many had passive aggressive comments about it. I think a lot of people are negatively triggered by others losing weight - whether it is from envy or loss of feeling of superiority or something else, I don’t know.

This is something you've invented because of your own low self esteem based on how you feel about your own body. Thin people do not get upset when they see people losing weight out of a "loss of feeling of superiority." You are the one who perceived them as superior to begin with, because they were thinner than you. This is a story you tell yourself. These people may or may not like you, and their dislike might even be based on positive attention you get for being thin, or they might dislike your increased confidence. A lot of people are messed up. But there's not a hierarchy based on weight unless you say there is. They have no superiority to lose.

It is true that people who would like to lose weight can resent people who are losing weight. But this is something that deserves empathy, not derision -- they are upset because they feel left behind. Again, there is so much internalized self-loathing being projected onto other people.

I agree it's annoying how much people feel comfortable commenting on weight loss, or simply in commenting on a person's physical appearance. But I'm always amazed by how rude so many people are -- a lot of people were never taught to think before they speak, and did not develop a filter for whatever random thoughts popped into their head. People who know how to be thoughtful about what they say are in the minority.

I think Mindy Kaling is really talented. She's not a celebrity I idolize because I sense girl boss energy (same with Reese Witherspoon) but I definitely don't begrudge her success as it appears she worked quite hard for it.

[Anonymous]

She was funny like 20 years ago when she had award-winning writers on the series of the 2000s feeding her quips. Nothing since has displayed any humor, charm or talent. Why is she still famous?

[Anonymous]

I love Never Have I Ever and SLOCG. Both are very recent shows. Your hatred of Mindy is super odd.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Regarding all of the negative Mindy comments on this thread… I lost 30 pounds a few years ago. It was interesting to me how many people felt comfortable commenting on my weight loss, and many had passive aggressive comments about it. I think a lot of people are negatively triggered by others losing weight - whether it is from envy or loss of feeling of superiority or something else, I don’t know.

This is something you've invented because of your own low self esteem based on how you feel about your own body. Thin people do not get upset when they see people losing weight out of a "loss of feeling of superiority." You are the one who perceived them as superior to begin with, because they were thinner than you. This is a story you tell yourself. These people may or may not like you, and their dislike might even be based on positive attention you get for being thin, or they might dislike your increased confidence. A lot of people are messed up. But there's not a hierarchy based on weight unless you say there is. They have no superiority to lose.

It is true that people who would like to lose weight can resent people who are losing weight. But this is something that deserves empathy, not derision -- they are upset because they feel left behind. Again, there is so much internalized self-loathing being projected onto other people.

I agree it's annoying how much people feel comfortable commenting on weight loss, or simply in commenting on a person's physical appearance. But I'm always amazed by how rude so many people are -- a lot of people were never taught to think before they speak, and did not develop a filter for whatever random thoughts popped into their head. People who know how to be thoughtful about what they say are in the minority.

I think Mindy Kaling is really talented. She's not a celebrity I idolize because I sense girl boss energy (same with Reese Witherspoon) but I definitely don't begrudge her success as it appears she worked quite hard for it.

If you don’t think that thin people can get very weird and feel threatened when a fat person they know gets thin then you’ve probably never been a fat person who got thin.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I love Never Have I Ever and SLOCG. Both are very recent shows. Your hatred of Mindy is super odd.

Sweetie, not everyone has to like the same celebs you do. And not every celeb forced down our throats has a genuine following.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am a big fan of Mindy Kaling. Not only she is very talented but she has become successful in Hollywood.

But, since we are talking about how she looks, and the truth is that at one point she was neither fulfilling the beauty standards of Holllywood nor the beauty standards of Bollywood. Though, why should she be expected to meet the beauty standards of any place or culture really blows my mind because she has not made her mark in the world, made her money, gained her fame, opened doors for herself because of her looks.

Mindy Kaling can never be the beauty standards of Indian film industry because Indians prefer women with cuter and fairer features like the North Indian Priyanka Chopra or South Indian Aishwarya Rai. When it came to Hollywood, Mindy Kaling's color and features would be more acceptable as the non-White females. Hollywood is more diverse than Bollywood is for the beauty standards of women in terms of color and features. But, even here, the Black beauty standards within Hollywood is more like what is revered in USA. Skinny is beautiful. (https://www.imdb.com/list/ls003837393/)

Hollywood does not like normal weight women. Unlike Bollywood where curvier women with boobs and a$$ are considered beautiful, Hollywood still worships the skinny women. Every single "chubby" lady from Adele to Rebel Wilson will have the story of becoming beautiful after losing weight. So Mindy Kaling weight loss has become the big story. She is still not a Bollywood Beauty, but she is certainly a Hollywood story now.

Does she look prettier now? I don't know. I think her face is the same. I always thought that her face was a familiar and intelligent face, but I never thought that she was a great beauty. I hope her weight loss was due to health reasons because Indians have the genes for heart diseases, high cholestrol, high BP, stroke and diabetes. If she lost weight by taking diabetes medication - good for her. She is the mom of two kids, she needs to be healthy for them. That is all that matters.

In the end, I wish her well and hope she remains healthy and happy. Her slender apperance now will not make an impact in how Indians view her, but it will change how Americans view her. So that is good.

I also like Mindy Kaling and respect her success.

But that Life & Style magazine link summed up my problem with this weight loss. She doesn't say, "I take Ozempic." She says "I learned that I love exercise." THAT contributes to young women having a completely unrealistic expectation about body types and sizes. I'm not sure why someone on here has decided it means we are racist. I think all Hollywood types are awful when they are dishonest about their workout/diet routines.

Why does Mindy Kaling owe it to people to say that she takes Ozempic? They are not paying her to be their spokesperson, correct? Nor is she telling anybody something that is injurious to their health (exercise to become healthier), nor she is a health guru, lifestyle guru, health guru, exercise guru, influencer etc. Why should she say anything at all?

BTW, no one knows if she is taking medication to lose weight. And it is not our business. It is not as if she is George Campos who lied to say that his family died in Holocaust and his mother died in 9/11. She is not Trump and who lied in her tax returns.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I love Never Have I Ever and SLOCG. Both are very recent shows. Your hatred of Mindy is super odd.

Sweetie, not everyone has to like the same celebs you do. And not every celeb forced down our throats has a genuine following.

Nah! My friends and I actually adore Mindy Kaling, Kamala Harris, Priyanka Chopra and also Meghan Markle. We do not like the bulldog Marjorie Green and Ginny Thomas.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am a big fan of Mindy Kaling. Not only she is very talented but she has become successful in Hollywood.

But, since we are talking about how she looks, and the truth is that at one point she was neither fulfilling the beauty standards of Holllywood nor the beauty standards of Bollywood. Though, why should she be expected to meet the beauty standards of any place or culture really blows my mind because she has not made her mark in the world, made her money, gained her fame, opened doors for herself because of her looks.

Mindy Kaling can never be the beauty standards of Indian film industry because Indians prefer women with cuter and fairer features like the North Indian Priyanka Chopra or South Indian Aishwarya Rai. When it came to Hollywood, Mindy Kaling's color and features would be more acceptable as the non-White females. Hollywood is more diverse than Bollywood is for the beauty standards of women in terms of color and features. But, even here, the Black beauty standards within Hollywood is more like what is revered in USA. Skinny is beautiful. (https://www.imdb.com/list/ls003837393/)

Hollywood does not like normal weight women. Unlike Bollywood where curvier women with boobs and a$$ are considered beautiful, Hollywood still worships the skinny women. Every single "chubby" lady from Adele to Rebel Wilson will have the story of becoming beautiful after losing weight. So Mindy Kaling weight loss has become the big story. She is still not a Bollywood Beauty, but she is certainly a Hollywood story now.

Does she look prettier now? I don't know. I think her face is the same. I always thought that her face was a familiar and intelligent face, but I never thought that she was a great beauty. I hope her weight loss was due to health reasons because Indians have the genes for heart diseases, high cholestrol, high BP, stroke and diabetes. If she lost weight by taking diabetes medication - good for her. She is the mom of two kids, she needs to be healthy for them. That is all that matters.

In the end, I wish her well and hope she remains healthy and happy. Her slender apperance now will not make an impact in how Indians view her, but it will change how Americans view her. So that is good.

I also like Mindy Kaling and respect her success.

But that Life & Style magazine link summed up my problem with this weight loss. She doesn't say, "I take Ozempic." She says "I learned that I love exercise." THAT contributes to young women having a completely unrealistic expectation about body types and sizes. I'm not sure why someone on here has decided it means we are racist. I think all Hollywood types are awful when they are dishonest about their workout/diet routines.

THIS is my problem with her posting. There are no photos of her working out and hustling in the gym. She's taking weightloss drugs. And look, if that's what she wants and likes, good for her. But she's lying and it's totally dishonest. She should have said nothing at all, but to say her weightloss is because she learned to love exercise... it's 1000% BS. Don't lie, Mindy.