Mindy Kaling While gung-ho self-acceptance is the ultimate goal (you know, the kind that lets you leave the house in no makeup and sweats and not think twice), actress and show creator Mindy Kaling of "The Mindy Project" shows us that it's normal to have insecurities.
"There's a whole list of things I would probably change about myself," she told Vogue. "For example, I'm always trying to lose 15 pounds. But I never need to be skinny. I don't want to be skinny. I'm constantly in a state of self-improvement, but I don't beat myself up over it."
The genius of Kaling's attitude is that "it offers us a model of a woman who likes to look good, and wouldn't mind losing a little weight, but doesn't base her self-worth on it," Elissa Strauss wrote in The Week. It gives us an example of someone who may not think she's always #flawless, but can still wear cute shoes and kick ass professionally.
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