Mindy Kaling Opens Up About Being A Single Mom In Her 40s: "There Is Hope For Us"
Comedian and actress Mindy Kaling broke onto the scene when she appeared in the hit sitcom "The Office," and since then she has become a household name. She recently opened up about being a single mom in her 40s and how she juggles a career and motherhood.
Mindy Kaling is known as the funny girl in the movies and shows she has starred in, but her greatest passion in life is being a mom. Her daughter was born in 2017 and she kept the identity of the father private; she opened up in a recent interview with Marie Claire about her motherhood journey.
Mindy Kaling Opens Up About Being a Single Mom in Her 40s: "There Is Hope for Us"
Mindy, 43, became a mom in her late thirties because she says it was when she felt the most financially stable. She ignored the criticism of being a single mom without the father heavily involved.
“I waited until I had the means and that made all the difference," she said. "The choice to have a child—by yourself, on your own terms—it was the best part of my life...It's the thing that I hope women feel confident doing by themselves.”
Mindy also gave her best piece of advice to women who want to be a mom: freeze your eggs. “I wish every 19-year-old girl would come home from college and that the gift—instead of buying them jewelry or a vacation or whatever—is that their parents would take them to freeze their eggs," she said. "They could do that once and have all these eggs for them, for their futures…to focus in your twenties and thirties on your career, and yes, love, but to know that when you're emotionally ready, and, if you don't have a partner, you can still have children.”
She wishes it was cheaper to freeze eggs and she even talked about potentially investing in companies that can provide more accessible healthcare options to women who are interested in freezing their eggs.
Mindy also opened up about the benefits of going to therapy. "It has really helped me," she said. "It just focuses me and makes me a better writer. I think I'm a friendlier person, a more patient mom.”
She was inspired to go to therapy after her mother passed away from pancreatic cancer in 2012. She said losing her mother was "just anguish for two years." But it was the very thing that inspired her to go to a therapist every Saturday for one year, which has helped her work through her insecurities and become a more present mother.