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Former 'Office' Star on Her Own New 'Project'

Description:After eight seasons of playing "Kelly Kapoor" on The Office, Mindy Kaling is taking her acting and creative genius to her own show, The Mindy Project, which is set to premiere this fall. Kaling recently talked to The Insider about the new project, and explained the inspiration behind it. "The inspiration [for the show] was kind of observations I'd made [in] my own life," said Kaling of the single-camera comedy. "The character I play is an OBGYN and my mom was an OBGYN so I'd kind of been doing r (4:26)

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