Kaling, a best-selling author and the creator and star of The Mindy Project on Fox, tells Galanes that she got her start in Hollywood writing a play (Matt and Ben, about actors Matt Damon and Ben Affleck) and then writing for The Office. Eventually, she knew that she needed to start her own show, she says, “because no one is going to write a show for a chubby brown woman. It’s hard enough to make it if you’re a thin, conventionally attractive woman. I also knew I was only going to be good at certain things.”
Read the full story, published 11/29/13 by The New York Times.
