Even if Mindy Kaling low-key loves it when we fawn over our desire to see her and B.J. Novak run off into the sunset together, sheâs still not going to fuel the fire by revealing who the father of her 18-month-old daughter, Katherine, is. Just yet, anyway. In a new interview with the New York Times, Kaling said keeping the fatherâs identity a secret will continue until Katherine, at an appropriate age, will be told herself. âMy feeling is that, until I speak to my daughter about that, Iâm not going to talk to anyone else about it,â she explained. âIâm very impatient, and having a baby requires an amount of patience that I was worried about. But they donât tell you that the thing will look so much like you, and do things that are so sweet and adorable, that youâll naturally not have the same impatience that you would have with a stranger or someone who works for you.â For what itâs worth, Novak is Katherineâs godfather. So close!