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n a late summer Saturday afternoon, Mindy Kaling is removing her hair extensions and stacking them on her dining room table. She has spent the past several hours looking glamorous and windswept for Parade’s photo shoot at her Los Angeles home, and now she’s getting comfortable. So off come the precariously high heels and the lush extensions, which added a little extra oomph to the star’s already enviable glossy black hair. “I hope I’m not grossing you out right now,” she says, unclipping another piece and adding it to the pile. Who can blame her for wanting to let her

(extra) hair down? It’s a rarity these days for Kaling, who’s working overtime as the creator, head writer, and star of The Mindy Project, now in its second season on Fox. The series revolves around Mindy Lahiri, a rom-com–obsessed ob-gyn with a messy personal life, and it is, much like Kaling herself, a whip-smart and hilarious critical darling. Which should come as no surprise to anyone who’s followed the 34-year-old multitasker’s career. In the eight years since she made her TV debut as gossipy customer-service rep Kelly Kapoor on The Office, Kaling has racked up six Emmy nominations tions for her writing

Bird Watching On a trip to Buenos Aires with her parents, “we kept seeing these ornaments,” Kaling says. “My mother and I fell in love with them.”

She’s Got Game This basketball, which sits on a corner shelf, was signed by Laker Steve Nash, “my favorite player of all time,” she says. “I referenced him in an episode of The Office, and he tweeted about it. A career highlight.”

Picture Perfect Picture Perfect “What’s better decoration th than han niceh looking people smiling?” Kaling Kaling says of these photos of family and ffriends displayed in the room. “With my hours I never get to see my loved o ones, so I like to pass by them every day.” da

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Prints Charming “I like boldness,” says Kaling, g, who reupholstered the chairs rs in a variety of Missoni fabrics.

Mirror, Mirror “The frame reminded me of honeycomb, one of my favorite patterns. terns. Alexander McQueen did an entire line inspired by honeycomb.”

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Crocodile Rocks “I make all my biggest purchases on my way to working out,” Kaling says of this triptych that adorns one wall. “I hate working out, so I’ll be like, ‘I need to stop in and buy art!’ I’m obsessed with creatures.” SEPTEMBER 29, 2013 | 7

“It’s great to be the ﬁnal say on things,” says Kaling (with James Franco, a guest star on her series’ second season).

‘Why is cooking important?’ ” she says, dipping a veggie into the hot sauce she’s just retrieved from her fridge. But she understands the appeal: “You go to someone’s house for a home-cooked meal and you think, ‘Oh, I get it—the most attractive you can be, male or female, is if you cook.’ “If I had a boyfriend who cooked for me,” adds the currently single star, “that’d be it. I would never stray.”

The Office Kaling wrote the 2006 episode “Diwali,” in which Kelly Kapoor celebrates the Hindu Festival of Lights. Kaling’s parents (above, with Steve Carell) played Kelly’s mom and dad.

Instead of ﬁlling the room’s built-in corner shelves with designer trinkets, Kaling opted for sentimental touches like framed photos of family and friends, including college pals from Dartmouth and her ex-boyfriend/current best guy friend B. J. Novak, who played Kelly’s onoff beau, Ryan, on The Ofﬁce. The house’s overall vibe is “playful, colorful,” and, Kaling adds with a laugh, “a little not-grown-up.” She has hosted only one dinner party here, a

KALING’S MINDY PILOT GOT THE GO-AHEAD THE DAY HER MOTHER DIED. “I THINK SHE WAS GIVING ME SOMETHING SO I DIDN’T HAVE TO GET CRUSHED UNDER THE WEIGHT OF MY GRIEF,” SAYS THE STAR. Conan O’Brien, which rests on an Art Deco– inspired accent table in a bathroom. The sunny dining room, the house’s centerpiece, is spacious but intimate thanks to its bold use of color and sophisticated prints. The dozen chairs are upholstered in complementary Missoni fabrics, and the gray-blue walls, a paint suggestion by Ashe, originally “scared” Kaling but now she loves them.

lively gathering for her Mindy Project writing staff shortly before work began on the series’ ﬁrst season. “By evening’s end,” she recalls, snacking on a crudités platter from the photo shoot, “I felt like King Arthur, and the table was my group of rambunctious knights.” She’s not likely to put her sleek state-of-the-art kitchen to frequent use anytime soon. “If you’re in your 30s and busy achieving your professional goals, you’re like,

he daughter of Indian parents who immigrated to the U.S. in 1977, Kaling moved often around the Boston area while growing up, thanks to her father Avu’s career as an architect. “He always wanted to have a project,” she says, “so I lived in all kinds of different places”— from modest apartments to grand houses with enough bathrooms that she didn’t have to share with her brother, Vijay, now a financial analyst. But it was another space, the office of her mother, Swati—an ob-gyn with sharp senses of both humor and style, who was an inspiration for Kaling’s Mindy Project character—where the young Saturday Night Live and Kids in the Hall fan nurtured her dream of becoming a comedy writer. “There was a little room where patients got blood drawn,” she recalls. “It was full of medical posters, and there was a plastic replica of the uterus. It was not at all a room built for children, but it had a little desk and typewriter, and I would just sit and write. If someone needed blood drawn, I was shooed out.” Education was highly prized in her household. “We were supposed to be very studious and observant and helpful,” says Kaling, whose idea of rebellion was staying up late to read by flashlight. “The expectation was not that I would be entertained by anybody but that I would come up with my own entertainment.” It’s a notion she has made a hallmark of her career. In 2001, she and her friend Brenda Withers wrote Matt & Ben, a fictionalized take on two other BFFs, Matt Damon and Ben Affleck, during the Good Will Hunting era; it became an off-Broadway smash (Withers played continued on page 11

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and producing work on that show; been featured in hit films, including This Is the End and The 40-Year-Old Virgin; written a best-seller, Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (and Other Concerns); and amassed more than 2.5 million followers on Twitter, where she posts witty quips on everything Scan here from Woody Allen to for video of Mindy’s photo the old-fashioned pleashoot or go sures of gardening. to parade.com Her schedule is so /kaling full that “I feel like I spend more time in my car than in my house,” she says, only halfjoking. Kaling bought her three-bedroom, 1927 Spanish-style abode six years ago from Michael Schur, a fellow former Office writer who went on to cocreate Parks and Recreation. “I just fell in love with it,” she remembers of walking through the front door the first time. “I could immediately picture living here.” She wasted little time in making her first house feel as vibrant and creative as its owner. With help from interior designer Ariel Ashe, the sister-in-law of Saturday Night Live vet Seth Meyers, Kaling filled the space with a chic mix of furnishings and eclectic decorative details, like the artfully carved (and large enough to sit on) wooden dice in one of the front rooms, or the framed faux magazine cover featuring, and signed by,

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What’s the scariest thing about October? For many working Americans this year, it’s not Halloween; it’s deciding what to do about your open enrollment choices and 2014 health care costs. The decisions we face are more complex than ever because of new options offered under the Affordable Care Act. (The online insurance marketplaces, called exchanges, are scheduled to open Oct. 1 for all 50 states and D.C.) To help Parade readers navigate the process, we asked Frank Lalli, former editor of Money magazine and author of an upcoming book on finding affordable health care, for his advice on reducing your costs. “These tips,” says Lalli, “can save you hundreds, maybe thousands, of dollars.”

ASK YOUR DOCTOR FOR HER LOWEST PRICE

Medical costs are like airline tickets: They vary widely, and they are negotiable. One study

showed that more than 60 percent of patients who asked for discounts got them. (I recently got a 75 percent discount on back surgery.) For the best results, learn what

STAY OUT OF YOUR DOCTOR’S OFFICE WHEN IT MAKES SENSE

doctors near you are charging for your procedure or service and ask your physician to match the lowest price. Start at ClearHealthCosts.com. It lists the cash prices and Medicare payments (when applicable) that speciﬁc local doctors and clinics in several cities are accepting for more than 30 common procedures. In the New York area, for example, the cost of a cardio stress test recently ranged from as little as $100 to a whopping $2,504.

If you have a simple question, just call. Your doctor should help for free. Or for common things like a sore throat or an immunization, consider one of the walk-in convenient care clinics operating in supermarkets and chains like CVS, Rite Aid, Walgreens, and Walmart. Studies show that clinics may cost 50 percent less than a primary care visit and 80 percent less than an emergency room.

ASK QUESTIONS ABOUT YOUR PILLS

When your doctor suggests a drug, ask if there is a lower-cost

alternative that is just as effective. If not, request free samples—or at least a limited-day prescription— so you can see how the drug works for you before you pay for a 30-day supply. Also, see whether your doctor can safely prescribe your pills in a double dosage so you can split one in half each day and save up to 50 percent.

SHOP AROUND FOR MEDS

Since pharmacists can charge whatever they want for drugs, the same medication in your area could go for, say, anywhere from $4 to $156—or more. Prices can even vary from store to store within your local chain. But you can shop wisely with GoodRx.com, which tracks the prices of more than 6,000 FDAapproved drugs at 70,000 pharmacies. The website and its free smartphone app can ﬁnd the best price in your area and often provide discount coupons to save you up to an additional 80 percent. Generally, big-box stores like Walmart and Costco offer the lowest prices, but your local pharmacy may match or even beat them.

CHECK YOUR HOSPITAL BILL BEFORE YOU PAY IT

Studies show that more than half of all hospital bills contain signiﬁcant errors, and not just the wild ones like a $160 charge for a blanket or a $1,004.50 charge for a toothbrush. For instance,

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Increasingly, providers are taking less from a patient up front than they could get from the insurer to avoid paperwork and waiting for payment. For example, Patient Care, a health care advocate, reports that a Wisconsin radiology clinic is accepting $600 cash for a knee MRI—one-third of what it would bill a patient using insurance.

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Writer Frank Lalli will respond to queries about health care and how to save on medical costs through the month of October in his daily blog at parade.com/healthcare

patients typically should not be billed for room and board on the day they’re discharged, but sometimes are. Unless you’re a brain surgeon yourself, you’ll probably come out ahead by hiring an expert (at the Medical Billing Advocates of America, for example) to review your itemized hospital bill. Top billing experts charge roughly $100 an hour or one-third of the discount they negotiate. Whatever the fee, experienced advocates say they often point out enough errors and raise enough arguments to get their clients’ bills cut in half.

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