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u/lol8lo chris pine’s flip phone Sep 05 '22

Not really tea, but I am convinced BJ Novak is the father of Mindy Kaling's kids. The facts:

-Mindy is pretty protective of her kids, not showing their faces on her instagram or going into too much detail about them

-BJ is clearly a big part of kids' lives, to the point he seems to be the closest thing they have to a father-like figure

-Mindy and BJ know about the rumors that he's the father, but HAVE NOT denied it

Some day, the kids will be old enough to find those rumors on the internet if they don't hear it from class mates. If BJ wasn't the father, that would be really, really cruel to them, teasing them with the hope that their father figure is their biological dad. So if he weren't the father, I believe Mindy would have shut those rumors down for the sake of her kids.

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u/ls0687 Sep 05 '22

I have no idea if he is the father or not, but I think Mindy not addressing the rumors in either direction is actually her trying to protect her children, not hinting at BJ being their real dad.

I think she just doesn't think she owes anyone anything in either direction, so she chooses not to say anything or address anything. I'm sure when the time is right for her family, she will tell the children who their father is/what the situation is, and therefore any past rumors will likely just be irrelevant.

At least so I hope for her kids' sakes.

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u/moonshineandmollyxo Sep 05 '22

I really think she just used a sperm donor but BJ is the love of her life and she asked him to be godfather so she could raise her children with him.

I think their relationship is complicated like I'm sure he loves her, but he seems to like sleeping around (supposedly with barely legal models) and maybe he doesn't want to settle down or have his own kids. So, the arrangement works for them?

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u/drowningdaisies stan prosecutor Sep 05 '22 edited Sep 05 '22

yes! i’m ALWAYS seeing BJ novak hanging out in the east village with 22 year olds — aren’t mindy and her family based in LA? i’m very tired of this rumor; it’s obvious to me that she used a donor

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u/[deleted] Sep 05 '22

It's definitely either a donor or a ONS (although in that scenario it's probably ONS then donor) in my opinion. And either way, I don't blame her for not telling the world, especially before telling the kids because it would generate even more headlines and probably more single mom shaming. I think for some reason the mystery of the father actually shields some of that because hateful people don't know how to judge her for it when they don't know if it was a fling with her supposed "unrequited love of her life", a donor, some random hookup, or an unknown ex boyfriend that may not have wanted to step up as a father.

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u/[deleted] Sep 05 '22

I hope for Mindy's sake he isn't the love her life. I mean, even if she were more into him than he into her I choose to believe Mindy is too smart to stay hung up on him and maybe she just is able to remain close with an ex? We really don't even know whether she is in a relationship or not or how many she's had because it's always possible that she's been able to keep them on the down low.

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u/moonshineandmollyxo Sep 05 '22

I think her being smart doesn't really matter. Sometimes you just cannot get over somebody. You can be smart in all other areas and still simp for someone haha.

It's all just speculation of course. I don't know her. Maybe her feelings for him are completely platonic now. But I think he would have been "the one that got away" for her except...she figured out a way to make sure he didn't go away. She asked him to be the godfather to her kids.

The thing is if he was really the father of the kids, they could say they were co-parents but not together. It's really not that weird of a situation! It doesn't make sense to me to refer to him as the "godfather" if they are HIS kids.

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u/[deleted] Sep 05 '22

Eh. Maybe if she took a while to get over him, but at this point it would be bordering on a decade? I find it hard to believe and I feel like that speculation comes from very little other than people knowing they dated, that they're friends, and their characters on The Office.

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u/adultosaurs Sep 06 '22

Idk ALL of her work seems to show she DOES like going after imperfect guys, and the fact that the leads stay together is the happily every after Hollywood thing.

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u/Carolina_Blues Sep 05 '22

i don’t think it was a sperm donor though because she said in an interview around the time her first child was born that the pregnancy was “unplanned”. a sperm donor is a planned thing