Mindy Kaling was mistaken for a Nobel prize winner.
The ‘Mindy Project’ star has revealed how someone at a party mistook her for the Nobel Peace prize winner, 17-year-old Malala Yousafzai.
She explained: "I was recently in New York City, at kind of a clubby, New York City party at the Boom Boom Room …
"I was looking around, I was like, ‘Oh this is going to be fun. Alcohol was flowing, I looked hot… as I always do at these events.
"This kind of like, elderly man came over to me, and was like, ‘Oh my god! I’m such a big fan!’ I was like, ‘Oh, thank you!’ And he’s like, ‘Malala, you’re so amazing.’ He thought I was the 17-year-old Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala."
The 35-year-old actress admitted that she was initially a bit offended by the mistake, but soon found it incredibly flattering.
She said: "It was so interesting to me from so many different ways. On one, I thought, it’s a little racial that he thought I was [her], but then it’s like, she won a Nobel Prize! I’ll take that. I do pretty well but that’s like, way better.
"She’s 17, I’m twice her age. So it was pretty good."
Mindy also admitted she never revealed her true identity to the man.
Speaking on ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’, she added: "I did not tell him [it wasn’t me]."
Mindy Kaling’s mistaken identity
