Mindy Kaling Shares Adorable Post Featuring Her Kids
Mindy Kaling is mounting the grounds straight.
The Office alum reflected connected her relationship with co-star B.J. Novak—whom she dated until 2007—after Drew Barrymore expressed connected her eponymous speech amusement that she wanted the 2 to extremity up together.
"I was connected a day erstwhile ironically and B.J. Novak sat down," Drew told The Mindy Project prima on Dec. 7. "I retrieve thinking, ‘Oh, I privation I was connected a day with him. He's truthful attractive—why is helium not with Mindy Kaling? I privation to beryllium with Mindy Kaling! Why are they not together?'"
After Mindy joked that B.J. was going to beryllium "so excited" that Drew thinks he's attractive, the 50 First Dates prima further explained her stance, adding, "I deliberation I imagination of you being the eventual couple, due to the fact that you look similar champion friends and you're some truthful wonderful."
However, Mindy—who is ma to girl Katherine, 4, and lad Spencer, 2—explained wherefore she and B.J. enactment truthful good unneurotic arsenic friends.
"He is simply a fantastic person and he's godparent of some of my kids and helium loves children and they're truthful attached to him," she said. "He's truly a portion of our family. But we've known each different for a long, agelong time."
Mindy continued, "I deliberation anyone who's been friends with idiosyncratic for 18, 19 years and astatine 1 constituent dated and present doesn't, they possibly recognize this."
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B.J. has continued to play important a relation successful Mindy's household implicit the years, with the A Wrinkle successful Time histrion sharing a representation of B.J. stargazing with Katherine portion enjoying a sojourn to the Griffith Observatory successful Los Angeles successful August.
And implicit the summer, Mindy addressed the long-standing net rumors that B.J. is the begetter of her kids.
"He's the godparent to some my kids—and they person specified a large relationship—and truthful acold [the rumors haven't] affected my happiness astatine all, it hasn't affected my kids oregon BJ," she explained successful a Marie Claire interview published connected Aug. 9. "If that's what is going to beryllium titillating to people, I'll instrumentality it."