Hey everyone, this is Kate Snow. I recently spoke with writer, showrunner, and actress Mindy

Kaling over a hot cup of soup. She definitely had an interesting choice of drink. Mindy is

known for her roles, of course, on the office and the Mindy project. But can you believe

this TV star was actually told that she wasn't pretty enough to be on television when she

was just starting out awful? Mindy has a great story of rising above those naysayers. This

interview is part of my series, The Drink with Kate Snow. You'll find other conversations

with people at the top of their game at NBC News dot com slash The Drink.

You know how they say that you have to put in 10,000 hours to be really good at something?

So where did you put in your 10,000 hours? Working for eight years at the office. Mindy Kaling,

you have picked probably maybe the oddest, strangest drink that we've ever had featured

on the drink, but that's okay. I love it. Great. I've got soup. My piping hot, well

yes, water nuts, gouache soup. I have the exact same one. I'm going to I'm trying it.

Yeah, bottoms up. So you're working with Campbell's, right? There's a reason for the ask for

the soup. Yes. Yeah. This is my my new favorite thing. Okay. So during the pandemic, my cooking

has been from like, ah, I used to make these elaborate meals that would take forever. And

now I spend 15 minutes in the kitchen for food. And I don't want my children to eat garbage.

And so by the way, you have, so you have a three year old, right? She's three year daughter.

And then you have, how old is the, is your boy now your newborn? He's four months. How

are you even talking to me right now? I'm like, one of my four month old and a three year old.

That's the kind of nice thing about being at home and during the pandemic and everyone's

in quarantine as I feel like we're all in maternity leave. Except you're still working all the time.

When did the comedy thing really like, when did that come into your life? Because I know in

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