Mindy Kaling Jokes About How Having 3 Kids Has Changed Her House: ‘It Looks Like I Run a Preschool’

Mar. 15, 2025

Mindy Kaling.Photo:Michael Buckner/Variety via Getty

Michael Buckner/Variety via Getty

Mindy Kalingis acknowledging another change that has happened in her life since becoming a mom of three.

During an appearance on the Thursday, March 6 episode ofToday,theRunning Pointco-creator, 45, spoke with anchorSavannah Guthrieabout how her life has changed since she welcomed her three children. Kaling, who is mom to daughtersAnne, 12 months, andKatherine, 7, plus sonSpencer, 4, told the broadcaster, 53, that having three little ones drastically changed the look and feel of her home.

“When I had two children, I felt like you would go to my house, and it was like, ‘Ahh, a tasteful, colorful home with a woman who has children,' " she said. “And now it looks like I run a preschool of 40 children. There’s weird mechanical toys going up. You step on LEGOs. It really is more of a mess.”

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Mindy Kaling’s children.Mindy Kaling/Instagram

Mindy Kaling/Instagram

The single mom recently celebrated herdaughter Anne’s first birthday. During an appearance onJimmy Kimmel Live, theSex Lives of College Girlscreator talked about how she feels “a little guilty” when it comes to her children’s birthday parties before they turn 4.

Themom of threetold hostJimmy Kimmel, 57, that she likes to keep things " very low-key” in the beginning.

“I’m not proud of this, but for the first four years of birthday parties for my kids, I am so cheap,” she admitted. “I don’t invite the hundred people over. It’s just me and my kids and we do something at my dad and stepmom’s house.”

Mindy Kaling and her daughter Anne.Mindy Kaling/Instagram

Kaling recently spoke withDax Shepardon a new episode of his podcast,Armchair Expert, about her family life, where she shared how her good friend,Reese Witherspoon, 48, empowered her to start having kids.

“[Raising children alone] scared me for the longest time and then it was Reese Witherspoon — I was getting ready to shoot a movie and it got delayed for some reason and I was like, ‘Ah, well I’m going to just wait,’ and she was like, ‘Do this. Do not wait until it’s too late,’ " she said of Witherspoon. “We were in her trailer in afield in New Zealand, and she’s like, ‘If you want this, you have to do it now.'”

“And, she listed some people that I knew of, but not known personally — some very famous women — who waited, and then it was too late,” she continued. “It’s only possible because I waited until I was 37 to have my daughter because I had disposable income, I have my nanny, [and] I have my dad who helps.”

source: people.com