Inside The Sex Lives of College Girls creator Mindy Kaling’s life including romance with The Office co-star

Mindy Kaling's deed bid The Sex Lives Of College Girls has launched its 3rd instalment - but what other has the writer been up to since her debut successful The Office?

Mindy Kaling is well-known for her polarising quality Kelly Kapoor connected The Office, but the histrion has had a glittering penning vocation since.

HBO Max's The Sex Lives of College Girls is among Kaling's astir fashionable shows, and it has conscionable released its 3rd season. Starring Pauline Chalamet, the bid follows a radical of assemblage students arsenic they research their sexualities and the hardships of higher education.

Kaling created the bid alongside shaper and writer Justin Noble, who besides worked connected Netflix's Never Have I Ever, different deed amusement created by The Office actress.

As fans binge-watch the latest play of the teen drama, we bespeak connected Mindy Kaling's beingness and look backmost connected her off-screen romance with a co-star.

Early life

Born connected 24 June 1979 successful Massachusetts, Kaling was named Vera Mindy Chokalingam astatine birth.

Her Indian parents, begetter Avudaiappan Chokalingam and parent Swati Chokalingam, immigrated to the United States soon earlier she was born.

Despite her archetypal sanction being Vera, she has ever been called Mindy due to the fact that her parents wanted her to person an American name.

Her parent was large with her portion surviving successful Nigeria, and she was inspired to sanction her aft the 1970s American sitcom Mork and Mindy.

The histrion suffered the nonaccomplishment of her parent to pancreatic crab successful 2012. A twelvemonth later, she candidly shared: “I would accidental that my parent is the azygous biggest relation exemplary successful my life, but that word doesn’t look to encompass capable erstwhile I usage it astir her."

Speaking to chap writer and histrion Lena Dunham for Rolling Stone, Kaling added: "She [her mother] was the emotion of my life."

Where you've seen her before

Kaling attended the Ivy League Dartmouth College and graduated with a Bachelor's Degree successful Drama successful 2001.

Shortly aft graduating, she co-wrote the satirical play, Matt & Ben, with chap Dartmouth alum Brenda Withers.

The play starred the duo successful the roles of Matt Damon and Ben Affleck and followed the communicative of the actors' lives arsenic assemblage students, earlier their emergence to fame.

At conscionable 24 years old, Kaling landed her large interruption successful the USA's remake of The Office. She was initially hired arsenic the lone pistillate writer connected a squad with 7 men but went connected to diagnostic arsenic a main quality successful the bid for 8 seasons.

Kaling's quality had a romance with Ryan Howard, played by B.J Novak. While the TV mates had a strained relationship, the actors had their ain romance distant from the cameras.

Co-star Romance

Kaling and Novak were successful a narration from 2004 to 2007 portion moving connected The Office. Their relationship has continued beyond the narration and they inactive publically enactment each other.

Kaling has revealed that Novak is the godfather of her children. She has maintained a precise backstage household beingness and has stated that she won't stock the individuality of her children's father.

This sparked speculation that Novak was the father, which Kaling was speedy to correct. In a 2022 Marie Claire interview, she said: “He's [Novak] the godparent to some my kids — and they person specified a large narration — and truthful acold [the speculation hasn't] affected my happiness astatine all, it hasn't affected my kids oregon BJ.”

In February 2024, she softly gave commencement to her 3rd kid and shared the quality with fans afterwards.

While Kaling rapidly silences rumours astir her narration with Novak, she openly admits it is "weird arsenic hell."

She opened up to InStyle successful 2015: "I volition freely admit: My narration with BJ Novak is weird arsenic hell."

She continued: "He is not my boyfriend, but helium is not my champion friend. I conjecture you could picture our narration arsenic a 'romantically charged camaraderie with large arguments."

What is she up to now?

Kaling precocious voiced Velma successful HBO Max's big adaptation of the Scooby Doo character.

She has besides appeared successful Reese Witherspoon's The Morning Show, the 2018 enactment movie Ocean's Eight and her self-titled drama bid The Mindy Project.

The Sex Lives of College Girls is disposable to watercourse connected HBO Max connected November 21, it's UK debut is yet to beryllium announced.