Mindy Kaling is opening up about how she dropped the baby weight after welcoming two kids, revealing she wasn’t super focused on a specific diet to achieve results.
The former Mindy Project star recently spoke to Entertainment Tonight about her approach to postpartum after welcoming daughter Katherine, 4, and son Spencer, 18 months.
“I had my son in the first year of the pandemic in September 2020,” the actress told the outletl “It was this almost extended maternity leave. I wasn’t going to be on camera, the studios were shut down.”
She continued, “After I had my daughter I had to shoot a movie, like, two months later, so I was very much like, ‘Just give me grilled salmon and sautéed spinach. I’m going to eat that for three months.’”
Because Kaling “didn’t have those pressures” of slimming down to get back on camera, the former Office star didn’t feel rushed to lose the baby weight right away when she had her son.
“When the world started coming back a little bit I thought, ‘This kind of eating … is probably not the way to go,’” she recalled, noting that she wasn’t in the habit of giving “any consideration” to what she was eating during the lockdowns.
With a few small changes, the Never Have I Ever creator started to see results.
“Honestly, I didn’t really do anything differently,” she confessed to the publication. “I eat what I like to eat. If I do any kind of restrictive diet, it never really works for me. I just eat less of it...I wish there was something more juicy or dynamic about the way that I’ve lost a little bit of weight, but that’s the way I’ve done it.”
This refreshingly healthy outlook on weightloss comes after an interview with Shape in May 2021, when Mindy reflected on how pregnancy shifted her mindset about her own body.
“I feel like in conversations about fitness and exercise, if you’re going to be talking about someone who’s healthy and fit, you have to be a hard body with, like, a six-pack,” she said. “But that’s not really how it works, and I have learned to embrace [my body] in the past six months [since having a baby].”
