“This is my greatest insecurity and someone just called it out,” she said on Good Morning America in 2021. “It’s really devastating.”
She’s also been criticized for losing weight, as if she was betraying fans who liked her just the way she was.
“It’s sometimes no fun when one of your favorite actors loses weight,” Kaling acknowledged to Bustle. “You have an idea of what they were like when you grew attached to them, and it made them endear themselves to you.”
It’s no fun to be on the receiving end of that, either. But, she added, “I truly understand it, as someone who consumes pop culture.”
So, why not her, too? And yet, Kaling has been way too busy actually being on her wellness journey to pay too much attention to all that noise. Here is what she has shared about her efforts to feel great and, if she happens to like how she looks at the same time, so be it: