Mindy Kaling She’s a mother for the third time! The actress celebrated her 45th birthday by taking to social media and revealing that she gave birth to her third child, a daughter named Anne, in February.
The office shared alum a photo gallery for your Instagram page, with the first featured photo being of their three children: daughter Katherine “Kit,” 6, son Spencer, 3, and baby Anne. The post includes a photo of Kaling cradling her baby bump and a photo of her in a hospital bed next to her two oldest children.
“At the end of February I gave birth to my daughter, Anne. She is the best birthday present I could have imagined,” Kaling captioned the carousel of photos. “When things are hard, whenever I turn to cynicism, my three children are a great reminder of the pure joy in my life. I’m very lucky to live in a place where I was able to do this on my own, on my own timeline. . Thanks for all the birthday wishes!”
This is the second time that Kaling welcomed a child while keeping it a secret of the public. The writer and producer welcomed your sonSpencer, in September 2020, amid the coronavirus pandemic, at a time when fans didn’t even know she was pregnant.
In 2021, Kaling reflected on the experience while speaking at a #WOW21 event (via People). Kaling noted that being a single, working mother of two was not as easy as it might seem from the outside.
While she said raising her children has been “wonderful,” Kaling added, “I don’t know if I recommend everyone have a secret pregnancy during a global pandemic, but I will say I learned a lot from it. a lifetime kind of thing.”
Since Kaling welcomed her first child, Kit, in 2017O I never the creator never revealed the identity of her children’s father. But she opened up about her children and how motherhood has changed her.
After the birth of your child, Kaling admitted that her children helped her become calmer.
“I wasn’t a patient person before this,” Kaling confessed during an appearance on CBS This Morning in August 2021. “I’m still not very patient, but this has really forced me to come to terms with it.”
“I get tested every day,” she added. “And I think that’s great. It’s really made me grow as a person. I feel like I’m a lot more caring, and that’s one of the blessings of parenthood. You just have to think about yourself less and it makes you a kinder person.” “
And this time last year, when celebrating his 44th birthdayKaling paid tribute to the special occasion by celebrating her health and well-being and how it allows her to be the best mother she can be.
“Look, I know I’m clearly materialistic, but the best birthday present for me, for the rest of my life, is these two guys. I wanted kids with such intense certainty that I bet some of you can relate,” Kaling captioned an Instagram post featuring a photo of Kit and Spencer pulling their luggage.
“Now I’m just trying to be there for them (hard for me! I’m impatient!), be ready for anything (again hard for me, I’m not capricious!), and stay healthy for these two guys (ALSO hard! I just I want to eat cheesesteaks for every meal in front of the TV) because until I’m an old gray skeleton they’re like ‘Mom, you have to go.’ My doctor told me that this year I was the healthiest I had been in years. It’s a very good gift, right? I’m usually a little anxious, so I’ll just take a minute on my birthday. recognize that I’m happy,” she added.
Congratulations to Mindy Kaling’s sweet family of four!
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