Mindy Kaling has always been opinionated regarding body standards for women. She often wove it into her scripts for her show The Mindy Project and takes to social media to open up about her thoughts on the matter.
And now that it's summer, a.k.a beach season, she's taking to Instagram to show us how we can rock our bodies in a bikini — and it's an extremely simple, yet powerful, message.
She's always just been an inspiring and relatable boss at everything she does.
Her show The Mindy Project was filled with relatable moments that have transcended the show's end.
She's also openly discussed body ideals in her book Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? and in interviews.
"Being called fat is not like being called stupid or unfunny, which is the worst thing you could ever say to me."
She told The Guardian, "It’s OK, I identify as someone who is cute and chubby – that doesn’t mean I’m not worthy of love and attention and intimacy.’"
You can guarantee that you can have your donut in a bathing suit and eat it too after reading her message.
Attached to the photos was a simple, yet important body positive comment that is guaranteed to hype us all up for summer and slay in our bathing suits!
She explained that she would visit her best friend in Hawaii when she was in college, and something that struck her about the state is how body positive they are.
That's what helped boost Mindy's confidence to fearlessly wear bikinis, even when she initially felt shy about her body.
"You don't have to be a size 0."
It's really as simple as that, isn't it?
Where can I get these bikinis, STAT?!
Many celebs like model Tess Holliday, Kim Kardashian, Ayesha Curry, and Yara Shahidi gave their support and enthusiasm to The Office star.
And that is a big win for Mindy and for the body confidence movement.
She says, "If you've got it, flaunt it. And if you don't got it? Flaunt it. 'Cause what are we even doing here if we're not flaunting it?"
AMEN.
It's so refreshing to see someone with a large platform help shape the rhetoric surrounding body positivity and help us all remember that all bodies are beach bodies.
Who's ready to head to the beach with me and confidently rock a bikini, ASAP?! After work, of course.
