Mindy Kaling admits it was ‘fairly easy’ to hide second pregnancy amid pandemic

She made a surprise announcement last month that she had given birth to a baby boy named Spencer.

And now Mindy Kaling says it was “ easy enough ” to keep her pregnancy a secret thanks to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.

Mindy Project, 41, said the home quarantine had helped her stay out of public sight in an interview with Elle published on Tuesday.

“I mean, clearly I wasn’t going anywhere like everyone else, so no one found me. So it was pretty easy, ” Mindy admitted to the magazine.

Since staying at home, the writer and actress was in charge of her social media posts and was able to eliminate any evidence of her growing belly.

“ And then just being home and taking pictures, a lot of it turned around my pregnancy. I pulled myself up from the waist and wore baggy clothes as well.

“ I never got super huge so it was a little easier, ” she added.

Mindy couldn’t help but flatter her son Spencer in the interview.

“I mean, he’s still so small,” she said. “ I think he’s about seven weeks old so I haven’t really seen what his personality will be like, but I know my daughter really likes the fact that he’s a boy. I think she feels a little less competitive.

Following an early hiccup, her two-year-old daughter Katherine, nicknamed Kit, was overjoyed to meet her baby brother.

“When I told her she was going to have a little brother, she didn’t understand he was going to bring out a baby,” she explained. “I think she thought he was going to come out at the age of two, like her.

“So the day before I arrived at the hospital, she was hiding all her toys. It was his big thing. We’d be like, “Kit, where’s your Elmo?” And we found him stuffed under the bed because she was hiding it so her brother wouldn’t take it, ” the Office star continued.

‘She was thrilled when she found out that he was so small and wouldn’t be interested in playing with toys for a long, long time. Now she’s really okay with it.

In addition to remaining the mother of her pregnancy, Mindy has not publicly disclosed the identity of Katherine or Spencer’s father.

Explaining her decision in an interview with The New York Times in 2019, Mindy said: “ My feeling is that as long as I tell my daughter about it, I won’t tell anyone else about it. . ”

She also tried to protect the identity of her children by never posting pictures of their faces on social media and only showing them from behind.

Later Tuesday, Mindy shared a humorous photo on Instagram in anticipation of a Thanksgiving feast.

“Do the #matildachallenge Attention, Trunchbull! she joked as she shared a photo of herself in a blue shirt with cherries embroidered on it as she was about to carve out a cute chocolate cake with chocolate ribbons draped over the top.

She was referring to a scene from Roald Dahl’s 1988 novel and 1996 film adaptation in which principal Miss Trunchbull forces a college student to eat her whole chocolate cake after she catches her stealing a piece. .

In her Instagram Stories, she thanked her friend and former co-star Ike Barinholtz, whose dad dropped off a delicious bowl of corned beef stuffing for his Thanksgiving dinner.

Although she normally celebrates the holidays with Ike, his wife Erica Hanson and their two children, she was not going to be able to see them this year due to the pandemic.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has urged Americans to stay home this holiday season and only celebrate Thanksgiving (and later the holidays) with immediate housekeeping in order to prevent the spread of the new coronavirus.

Despite the advice, many Americans still plan to travel for the holidays and have large gatherings with friends and families, which has left epidemiologists and medical professionals bracing for an even worse rise later in the day. year and early 2021.