Mindy Kaling Says She Reads These Books to Her 3 Kids: ‘It’s Like a Little Performance’ (Exclusive)

Mindy Kaling puts connected a show for her 3 kids during reference time!

The Running Point co-creator, 46, revealed to PEOPLE successful an exclusive speech during New York Fashion Week connected Monday, Sept. 15 that she sounds circumstantial books to her young children arsenic portion of their bedtime ritual.

“They for illustration specified different things and truthful it’s awesome — it’s for illustration a small performance,” Kaling said of Katherine, 7, Spencer, 5, and Anne, 1, while attending Tory Burch’s NYFW show astatine One Hanson Place successful Brooklyn.

“My boy [Spencer] likes books astir trucks and cars, and he loves John Cena’s books, Elbow Grease,” the Inside Out character continued. “John Cena wrote these kids books that are astonishing astir a monster truck.”

“My girl [Katherine] loves The Baby-Sitters Club,” Kaling continued, referring to Ann M. Martin’s celebrated book series. “And past nan babe [Anne] loves Sandra Boynton and much elemental committee books, truthful tons of different kinds of books.”

“When I decorativeness up nan show, arsenic glamorous arsenic this is, I get to spell bent retired pinch my 3 kids, truthful they're beautiful grounding,” Kaling said.

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Kaling, meanwhile, has kept Katherine, Spencer and Anne's faces retired of nan spotlight since she welcomed them successful 2017, 2020 and 2024, respectively.

“I consciousness for illustration I mightiness arsenic good hold until they get aged capable truthful they tin show maine if they want to beryllium portion of my societal media aliases not,” Kaling told PEOPLE successful 2021. Since then, she has since only posted photos of them pinch their backs to nan camera aliases their faces not successful nan pictures. 

She added astatine nan time, “I’m for illustration immoderate genitor wherever I'm proud of nan things they do. I deliberation they’re truthful cute, and of course, I want different group to spot it.”