Mindy Kaling is well aware that people are curious about her weight loss, but she doesn’t quite understand all the hype. “I know people are really interested in my body and the changes in my body, and I think it’s flattering and sometimes it’s just a little much, so I don’t try to tune it in too much,” she previously told . Over the last few years, Kaling has been showing off a more toned and trim figure, and her fans have been wondering what motivated her body transformation.
As it turns out, her inspiration is quite simple. “I’ve tried really hard to let go of this idea of losing weight for vanity reasons and really trying to think of how I can be healthy,” Kaling, told in 2022. “And for me, healthy is working out, moving my body a lot, keeping hydrated, and then not having negative connotations around working out and making me feel like if I don’t do this, then I won’t be something else.
” The 45-year-old has shifted her perspective on fitness over the years and is kinder to herself these days. “When I was younger, I had a very specific idea of how working out needed to be. It was like 45 minutes on the treadmill, seven minute mile, it needed to be punishing, I needed to hate it," she said.
Above all, Kaling is focused on staying healthy for her three children. "I grew up without parents who worked out. They were trying to establish themselves in this country and they did not put a premium on their own health and working out.
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