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Angelina Jolie Brings Daughter to Golden Globes After Finalizing Divorce

Feature Angelina Jolie Brings Zahara Jolie to 2025 Golden Globes After Finalizing Divorce
Zahara Jolie and Angelina Jolie attend the 82nd Annual Golden Globe Awards at The Beverly Hilton on January 05, 2025 in Beverly Hills, California. Amy Sussman/Getty Images

Angelina Jolie turned the 2025 Golden Globes into a mother-daughter date night.

The actress, 49, was accompanied by her eldest daughter, Zahara, 19, at the Sunday, January 5, ceremony at the Beverly Hilton in Los Angeles. “Z is here,” Jolie told Variety on the red carpet, noting that Zahara gave her metallic gown her stamp of approval. “She’s hiding over there ‘cause you’re live,” she joked about her daughter not joining her on camera.

Zahara complemented her mother’s sparkling look in a white dress featuring silver metallic embroidered detail. While Jolie wore her hair half-up, Zahara pulled hers back in a chic updo.

Two days before their Golden Globes outing, Zahara joined her mother at the 36th Annual Palm Springs International Film Festival Awards in Palm Springs, California. The two sported opposite colors at the event, with Jolie contrasting her daughter’s white gown in a black silk dress.

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Zahara is one of six kids Jolie shares with her ex-husband, Brad Pitt, including Maddox, 23, Pax, 21, Shiloh, 18, and twins Knox and Vivienne, 16.

At this year’s Golden Globes, Jolie is nominated for Best Performance by a Female Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama for her role as opera singer Maria Callas in the biographical drama Maria. The Last Showgirl’s Pamela Anderson, Babygirl’s Nicole Kidman, The Room Next Door’s Tilda Swinton, I’m Still Here’s Fernanda Torres and Lee’s Kate Winslet are also up for the award.

Prior to the 2025 awards show, Jolie won three consecutive Golden Globes between 1998 and 2000 for her performances in George Wallace, Gia and Girl, Interrupted. She has received a total of nine nominations throughout her career.

Angelina Jolie Brings Zahara Jolie to 2025 Golden Globes After Finalizing Divorce
Zahara Jolie and Angelina Jolie attend the 82nd Annual Golden Globe Awards at The Beverly Hilton on January 05, 2025 in Beverly Hills, California. Amy Sussman/Getty Images

Jolie’s family outing at the Golden Globes comes just days after news broke that she finalized her divorce from Pitt, 61. The exes split in September 2016 and were declared legally single in 2019 but did not sign off on a divorce settlement until Monday, December 30.

“More than eight years ago, Angelina filed for divorce from Mr. Pitt. She and the children left all of the properties they had shared with Mr. Pitt, and since that time she has focused on finding peace and healing for their family,” Jolie’s lawyer James Simon told Us Weekly in a statement at the time. “This is just one part of a long ongoing process that started eight years ago. Frankly, Angelina is exhausted, but she is relieved this one part is over.”

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A rep for Pitt declined to confirm or comment on the news.

As for the pair’s children, they have supported their mother throughout the lengthy legal battle.

“The kids have grown up seeing that some people have so much power and privilege that their voices don’t matter. Their pain doesn’t count,” a source close to the matter told Us in December 2024. “They have wanted [Angelina] to speak up for herself, to defend herself over these years but she reminds them to focus on changing laws over telling public stories.”

Despite the headline-making ordeal, the insider said that Jolie “doesn’t speak ill” of Pitt publicly or privately to their children, adding that she has been “trying hard to be light after a dark time.”

Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo Don't Channel Wicked at 2025 Golden Globes

Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo Channel Wicked Characters at 2025 Golden Globes
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Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo took a break from channeling their Wicked characters’ aesthetic.

Grande, 31, and Erivo, 37, looked beyond fabulous at the 2025 Golden Globes, which took place on Sunday, January 5. Grande, for her part, stunned in a vintage Givenchy yellow gown featuring a delicate beaded neckline and an empire waist. She dressed up her look even more with white gloves and diamond jewelry from Swarovski. Grande, who is nominated for Best Supporting Female Actor for her role as Glinda in Wicked, also showed off her new hair color: a strawberry blonde hue a shade darker than her usual blonde locks.

Erivo — up for Best Performance by a Female Actor in a Motion Picture, Musical or Comedy — looked timeless in a glittery Roberto Coin gown featuring silver florals and a plunging neckline. The pièce de résistance was the skirt of her dress, which had a structural rectangular shape that protruded from her hips. Underneath, the skirt plummeted into long pleats.

Erivo opened up to E! about her color switch-up, sharing, “The thing is, green is Elphaba’s favorite color but what she wears is black. So we’ve been playing around with it and bringing green in occasionally.”

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Her makeup was just as exquisite, featuring smokey eyeshadow and long lashes. Erivo topped off her look with a fabulous nail design complete with different colored nails and silver jewels, which she said took five hours.

Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo Channel Wicked Characters at 2025 Golden Globes
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While the stars decided not to wear their Wicked character’s iconic colors, green and pink, they previously channeled Glinda and Elphaba’s wardrobe while hitting the red carpet during the movie’s press tour.

Perhaps Grande’s most talked-about look came at the London premiere in November. For the occasion, she donned a yellow Ralph Lauren gown reminiscent of her Broadway character’s costume that Glinda wore while singing “One Short Day.” Just as Glinda did on stage, Grace accessorized with round green-tinted sunglasses.

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Erivo also looked fabulous at each Wicked premiere, with most ethereal look coming at the Mexico City premiere, where she wore a custom Thom Browne dress featuring hands on her shoulder in the iconic shape of the Wicked Witch of the West’s talons.

Kristen Bell and Dax Shepard Are All Loved Up at the Golden Globes

Kristen Bell and Dax Shepard Are All Loved Up on the 2025 Golden Globe Awards Red Carpet
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Kristen Bell and Dax Shepard looked as smitten as ever at the 2025 Golden Globe Awards.

The Nobody Wants This star, 44, and the Parenthood alum, 49, walked the red carpet together on Sunday, January 5, before the event at the Beverly Hilton in Los Angeles.

Bell wore a shimmery metallic gown for the big night, completing the look with rose gold earrings, cuff bracelet and two rings, all courtesy of Reza.

Shepard finished off his classic suit with a pair of casual Vans black-and-white checkerboard sneakers and black sunglasses.

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Bell is nominated for Best Performance by a Female Actor in a Television Series – Musical or Comedy for her portrayal of agnostic sex and dating podcaster Joanne on the Netflix romantic comedy Nobody Wants This. The Bear’s Ayo Edebiri, HacksJean Smart, Agatha All Along’s Kathryn Hahn, Abbott Elementary’s Quinta Brunson and Only Murders in the Building’s Selena Gomez are also competing in the category.

Bell was previously up for the same award in 2019 for her performance on The Good Place, but she ultimately lost to The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel’s Rachel Brosnahan.

Kristen Bell and Dax Shepard Are All Loved Up on the 2025 Golden Globe Awards Red Carpet
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As for her personal life, Bell has been married to Shepard since October 2013. The couple share daughters Lincoln, 11, and Delta, 10.

After Bell and her Nobody Wants This costar Adam Brody made headlines for their impressive chemistry on the series, Shepard expressed his support for the duo.

“Even I can acknowledge watching it, like, ‘Whoa, that’s hot,’” Bell told eTalk in September 2024 of her onscreen PDA with Brody, 45. “My husband said the same thing. Like, watching the first episode he was like, ‘Oh, my God, I want you to kiss him so badly.’”

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The following month, Shepard joked about Bell’s fictional connection with Brody.

“We watched that scene together, the kissing scene, which I’d argue is the very best kissing scene ever, ever put on film,” he said at the New Yorker Festival in October 2024. “And my best friend, Aaron, from childhood, he goes, ‘Does she ever kiss you like that?’ No, I didn’t even know she could kiss like that.”

Shepard then quipped that his chemistry with Bell is “not as good as her and Brody.”

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Bell, for her part, attempted to explain the approach behind her unique bond with Brody, who has been married to Leighton Meester since February 2014 and shares daughter Arlo, 9, and a 4-year-old son (whose name has not been revealed) with the actress, 38.

“I’m not trying to be reductive, but I think there’s a math to it,” Bell told eTalk. “You have two actors that know how to stare dopily into each other’s eyes, and you have to have the confidence to expand that and really sit the anticipatory value before the kiss — which I think is really important.”

She added: “Whether or not people want to see you end up with someone is a crapshoot, and we just kind of got lightning in a bottle.”

Demi Moore Dons Ethereal Gold Glam at the 2025 Golden Globes

Demi Moore lit up the 2025 Golden Globes with her ethereal glam.

Moore, 62, stepped onto the red carpet on Sunday, January 5, with a full beat. For her first Golden Globes appearance since 2009, Moore donned glamorous makeup, featuring a brown shade blended into her crease. She added the perfect amount of sparkle to her beat with a golden shimmer swept across her eyelids. Her cheeks were defined with a soft contour and blush that complimented her lips.

Moore tied her goddess look together with her brunette hair parted to the side and styled in loose curls with a bounce at her ends.

Moore’s outfit was just as noteworthy as her glam, including an asymmetrical neckline that artistically folded on her bodice. She added the perfect amount of sparkle to her look with diamond jewelry.

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On the red carpet, she opened up to E! about aging in the spotlight. “The beauty in this is that we all understand there has been the circumstances of women being marginalized at a certain age but for me the most captivating is the exploration of the violence and harshness we have against ourselves because that is within our power to shift,” she said. “How we hold ourselves is everything.” On the line ‘at 50 it stops’: Just because there’s a collective agreement doesn’t mean it’s the truth. We as women have bought into it but when we change how we view ourselves the world with follow.”

Demi Moore Dons Ethereal Beauty at the 2025 Golden Globes
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This year, Moore is presenting at the awards ceremony, which is held at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Los Angeles, California. Comedian Nikki Glaser is hosting the event. She is also nominated for Best Performance in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy for her role in The Substance. (Other nominees in the category include Amy Adams, Cynthia Erivo, Karla Sofía Gascón, Mikey Madison and Zendaya.)

Although she hasn’t been to the Golden Globes since 2009, Moore stunned on the red carpet at the Golden Globes party during the Toronto International Film Festival in September 2024.

For the event, she looked fiery in a red leather dress featuring thin straps, a square neckline and a flowy skirt with a wrap dress. Moore matched her frock with scrappy heels and a cherry red pedicure.

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In true Moore fashion, she wore her long hair down and straightened. She topped off her look with bedazzled hoops and soft makeup including blushed cheeks, filled-in eyebrows and nude lips.

Back in 2009, Moore sported a halter nude dress featuring a tiered skirt. The actress paired her gown with stacked bracelets and beachy waves.

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Nikki Glaser Says She Practiced Her 2025 Golden Globes Monologue 93 Times

Nikki Glaser Says She Practiced Her 2025 Golden Globes Monologue 93 Times
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Nikki’s Glaser isn’t playing around when it comes to preparing for her Golden Globes hosting gig.

“93,” Glaser, 40, told E! News on the red carpet ahead of the awards show of how many times she practiced her monologue. “[Tonight] will be my 94th time telling some version of this. I mean, it’s still changed even from the last time I told it until now, so we’re constantly making edits, trying to top jokes, trying to strike the right note and tone for the evening. But a lot of work has gone into it.”

While she’s practiced her set nearly 100 times, Glaser wants to be clear: there’s a lot of room for improv, and anything can happen at the 82nd Annual Golden Globes, which air on CBS on Sunday, January 5, at 8:00 p.m. ET.

“I don’t want people to think, ‘Oh she’s just reciting some monologue.’ I practice so much, so that when I get up there, I’m off-book and I can just be in it,” she said. “And then that’s when stuff’s gonna start coming out that wasn’t planned. And so now I know it so well that I can be myself up there.”

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While this is her first time hosting the Globes, the comedian is no stranger to commanding an audience: Glaser went viral late last year for her performance on Netflix’s The Roast of Tom Brady, and she has been performing stand-up comedy for over two decades.

“I am feeling so ready,” she said on the red carpet. “I can’t wait to perform. The nerves aren’t there yet. I just got done with rehearsal, I feel so comfortable with it. I just am like, ‘God I can’t wait to tell this to a room full of people.’ It’s going to be so much fun.”

Included in that room of people are heartthrobs and 2025 nominees Timothée Chalamet and Glen Powell, who Glaser thinks might “set off something new in my head” when she sees them in the audience during the show.

Nikki Glaser Says She Practiced Her 2025 Golden Globes Monologue 93 Times
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“[Glen] is going to be in the back and he has to wear sunglasses so he can’t make eye contact with me because it will throw me, I need to stay dry,” Glaser joked about Powell, 36, who is nominated for Best Actor in a Motion Picture — Musical or Comedy, for his performance in Hit Man. “These people don’t talk to me outside of a setting like this, so this is my time to talk to them, for them to look at me. Not that they think they’re better than me, it’s just that I don’t run into these people a lot, so I’m standing up there, and it’s blowing my mind that Angelina Jolie has to listen to me talk for nine minutes.”

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Included in Glaser’s 93 practice rounds were nine performances in and around Los Angeles over just a few days leading up to the show.

“Not every host does that,” she told The Hollywood Reporter of her preparation on Thursday, January 2. “I’m lucky enough to be a comedian that can go and find these rehearsal spaces in front of a live audience and I trust my audience members to not leak jokes to tell anyone.”

She continued: “it’s been a really collaborative process. I go on stage and I just say, ‘Hey guys, do you mind if I run my set?’ and everyone’s so excited. They feel like they’re part of this interesting, secretive process because they are. And I just go, ‘If you laugh at a joke tonight, and then you hear that same joke Sunday night when you watch the Globes, you can literally be like, ‘I told her to do that joke,’ because you did!’”

Cooper Koch Is Supported by Boyfriend Stuart McClave at 2025 Golden Globes

Cooper Koch Boyfriend Stuart McClave Make Red Carpet Debut at Golden Globes
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Cooper Koch had his boyfriend, Stuart McClave, for support while celebrating his first nomination at the 2025 Golden Globe Awards.

Koch, 28, and McClave, 37, made their red carpet debut while posing for photos at the Beverly Hilton in Los Angeles on Sunday, January 5. The actor’s Netflix series Monsters, which is centered around convicted killers Erik and Lyle Menéndez, is nominated for Best Limited Series, Anthology Series or a Motion Picture Made for Television, Best Performance by a Male Actor in a Limited Series for Koch’s performance as Erik and Best Male Supporting Actor — Television for Javier Bardem’s performance as José Menendez.

Before McClave showed support for Koch at the Golden Globes, the couple were photographed at the LACMA Art+Film Gala in November 2024 but have largely kept their relationship out of the public eye. Koch catapulted into stardom after his role in Monsters and has made headlines for wearing a ring on his left hand.

Koch admitted that he has been wearing a wedding ring — but he isn’t engaged yet.

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“We were going to the Emmy Awards with my brother Payton who was nominated for editing for Only Murders in the Building. My twin and I were getting ready and I didn’t have any jewelry on,” he recalled on SiriusXM’s Andy Cohen Live in October 2024. “And I was with my boyfriend and we went into my room and I was looking through my jewelry and I had this ring that was my grandfather’s. I was like, ‘Oh, I should just wear this ring.’ Then we just put it on my ring finger and it just became this little romantic and protective mechanism.”

Koch quipped that he “wanted to trip people out,” adding, “[My boyfriend is] very much committed to me as much as I am to him. We have talked about that and we do need to get him a ring. But it’s really more of just a nice totem.”

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In addition to his romance with McClave, Koch has been a topic of conversation for his critically-acclaimed performance in Monsters. Koch has since found himself supporting Erik, 53, and brother Lyle. 56, who were sentenced to life in prison for the 1989 murder of their parents. They have claimed they killed their mother and father in self-defense following years of alleged physical, emotional and sexual abuse.

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“I was so moved and I believed them immediately. It was then that I found all the similarities and I became quite obsessed with the case and with their story,” Koch told GQ Australia in December 2024. “I was taping and taping, auditioning and auditioning, for seven years. Then finally you get the one that is supposed to happen.”

Koch revealed he was so interested in playing Erik that he auditioned for multiple projects related to the Menéndez brothers.

“The reason why he’s been with me for so long is because I auditioned to play him seven years ago for the Law & Order series and for the Lifetime movie,” he said, referring to 2017’s Law & Order True Crime and Menendez: Blood Brothers.

Koch nearly landed the role both times. “I got to the final rounds in both and I ultimately didn’t get it. But I felt like I had to play this part,” he recalled. “I got the audition [for Monsters] and I watched the trial videos for the first time.”

Adam Brody and Leighton Meester Make the Perfect Pair at the Golden Globes

Feature Adam Brody and Leighton Meester Make the Perfect Pair at the 2025 Golden Globes
Leighton Meester and Adam Brody attend the 82nd Annual Golden Globe Awards at The Beverly Hilton on January 05, 2025 in Beverly Hills, California. Amy Sussman/Getty Images

Adam Brody and Leighton Meester celebrated his big night at the 2025 Golden Globe Awards.

The Nobody Wants This star, 45, and the Gossip Girl alum, 38, posed for photos on the red carpet ahead of the Sunday, January 5, ceremony at the Beverly Hilton in Los Angeles. Meester stunned in a light green shimmering dress with a cowl neckline, while Brody rocked a dark green double-breasted suit.

When asked about the biggest difference in his life from 20 years ago, Brody said on E! Live From the Red Carpet, “A family, you know, gives you a very different perspective. … I don’t want to quantify it, but it’s a big perspective shift. But hopefully it means in another 20 years I’ll be back as everyone’s favorite grandpa boyfriend.”

Brody is a first-time Golden Globes nominee. He is up for Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series – Musical or Comedy for his role as rabbi Noah Roklov in the Netflix show Nobody Wants This. Shrinking’s Jason Segel, The Bear’s Jeremy Allen White, Only Murders in the Building’s Martin Short and Steve Martin and A Man on the Inside’s Ted Danson are also nominated in the category. (White took home the award.)

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While fans have been enamored by his onscreen chemistry with his Nobody Wants This costar Kristen Bell since the series’ September 2024 premiere, in real life, Brody has been married to Meester since February 2014. The couple are parents of daughter Arlo, 9, and a son, 4, whose name has not been revealed.

Adam Brody and Leighton Meester Make the Perfect Pair at the 2025 Golden Globes
Leighton Meester and Adam Brody attend the 82nd Annual Golden Globe Awards at The Beverly Hilton on January 05, 2025 in Beverly Hills, California. Matt Winkelmeyer/WireImage

The pair have maintained a relatively private romance over the years, but in December 2024, Brody offered an unprecedented glimpse into his connection with Meester.

“Despite the state of the world, I feel like I’m living my best life,” he told British magazine Stylist at the time. “I have a beautiful, dreamy family life. I have a good work-life balance and get to spend a lot of time with my kids. I’m in that really great period of middle age where I’m old enough to have seniority and work security but also still have enough of my body to be active and do all the things I want to. I’m a lucky guy.”

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As for the two’s holiday plans, Brody revealed how they tackle the festivities as a team.

“I don’t do it a lot, but I’m a good host if I may say so myself,” he explained. “It’s usually a blur because I’m running around and making sure everyone is having a good time. But if we’re going to someone else’s, I like to think I make for good conversation. My wife and I have a dynamic: I will be the one that gets us there on time, but she will be the last to leave, long after I’ve started to get antsy to head home. So between us, we’re committed. We’re not just stopping by for an hour: if you have us, you have us.”

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Brody then gushed over Meester and what it’s like to watch her interact with others in a crowd.

“When you’re out somewhere in public, there’s something very nice about seeing the person you’re with from across the room talking to someone else,” he noted. “It’s a totally different perspective and, ideally, it’s a very lovely and flattering one. In my case, it definitely is.”

Mindy Kaling Shimmers While Walking Golden Globes Red Carpet

Mindy Kaling has been open about her health journey over the years.

Many fans met the comedian through her character on The Office, Kelly Kapoor, which debuted in 2005. In addition to recurring on screen, Kaling was in the writer’s room. During a season 5 episode, Kelly went on a diet inspired by Beyoncé — replacing meals with a cleanse that consists of lemons, cayenne pepper, water and maple syrup.

That same year, Kaling released her first book, Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? In the candid memoir, she wrote about creating a “makeshift diet formula” in high school after a classmate told her she would “be really pretty if you lost weight.” As a result, Kaling “would eat exactly half of what was put in front of me, and no dessert.”

The actress explained that she “stayed at a pretty normal weight until college” when she gained 35 pounds during the first six months of her freshman year. She dropped the weight by introducing exercise into her life but declared she would be “chubby for life” for four reasons: she has “no hobbies except dieting,” she has “no discipline,” men she’s “dated have been into me the way I am” and she’s “pretty happy with the way I look, so long as I don’t break a beach chair.”

Kaling’s new approach to wellness came after she navigated losing baby weight. She welcomed daughters Katherine and Anne in 2017 and 2024, respectively, and son Spencer in 2020.

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Kaling became a well-known comedy writer and actress after The Office premiered.

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The star wasn’t afraid to take fashion risks as she navigated her own body image issues.
"On TV, if you were really thin, then you could be the lead. Otherwise, you had to be like 250 pounds, and you had to be the slapstick comic relief," she explained on Good Morning America in 2021. "But what was crazy, what was left out, is just like this range of people which is a majority of American women over the age of 24. What if you're like a [size] 12 and you want to just live your life and look cute and date?"

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Kaling’s character on The Mindy Project, Mindy Lahiri, became a fashion and body image icon in her own right, once declaring: “First of all, I am not overweight; I fluctuate between chubby and curvy.”

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In her second book, Why Not Me?, released in 2015, Kaling wrote about a 21-day juice cleanse ahead of a Mindy Project scene in a whipped-cream bathing suit with James Franco.
“Like every heterosexual woman and gay man in the country, I think James is a very mysterious and sexy weirdo … I didn’t want him to feel my bra-strap pudge on the set,” she wrote.
While she loved that she got to dress like “a slutty teenage hitchhiker and it felt great,” she spent her days laying “in my bed, grinding my teeth, waiting for dawn to break.”

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Kaling welcomed her daughter in 2017, opting not to reveal any details about the father of her kids.
“After I had my daughter I had to shoot a movie, like, two months later, so I was very much like, ‘Just give me grilled salmon and sautéed spinach. I’m going to eat that for three months,’” she recalled to Entertainment Tonight in 2022 of losing the baby weight.

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"IDK who needs to hear this but," the Four Weddings & A Funeral producer wrote via social media in July, “WEAR A BIKINI IF YOU WANT TO WEAR A BIKINI. You don't have to be a size 0."

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One year later, she gave birth to son Spencer in September 2020.

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Kaling posted a pic in a one-piece bathing suit in August 2021.
“I feel like in conversations about fitness and exercise, if you’re going to be talking about someone who’s healthy and fit, you have to be a hard body with, like, a six-pack. But that’s not really how it works, and I have learned to embrace [my body] in the past six months [since having a baby],” she noted to Shape three months earlier.

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The Sex Lives of College Girls co-creator joked about wearing “stretchy knits post-Thanksgiving” in November 2021.

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Kaling joked about dropping “thirst trap pics” with her new figure.
 

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“I eat what I like to eat. If I do any kind of restrictive diet, it never really works for me. I just eat less of it,” she explained to ET in April 2022. “I wish there was something more juicy or dynamic about the way that I’ve lost a little bit of weight, but that’s the way I’ve done it.”

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Kaling’s thinner figure made waves online in December 2022 when she rocked a white dress for a holiday party.
“I never wear winter white! I was always so worried about it not being flattering and also about dropping food on it,” she explained via Instagram.

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Kaling shared an Instagram snap in December of her plate full of pizza, pasta and chicken wings. However, a social media commenter was quick to point out that there was “no eating” in the shots.
“I actually think this concern is sweet. But I swear this is not my issue. But thank you for being kind,” the Velma voice actress replied.

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Kaling documented her adventures during a trip to India.

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Kaling showed up to the 2023 Oscars in a white custom Vera Wang Haute Couture dress that showed off her petite frame. However, when she hit the stage to present, the writer was wearing the same design in black.

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Kaling shared that she still indulges in carbs while showing off her svelte figure at an event. "Head to toe @cultgaia for a @clooneyfoundationforjustice event and pasta eatin’ at @giorgiobaldi_ristorante with my beloved @juliaspowellart," Kaling captioned photos via Instagram in April 2023.

Sam Altman says OpenAI's researchers give him 'nothing but disrespect' — and that's a good thing

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Sam Altman's leadership philosophy aligns with that of other tech leaders.

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  • Sam Altman says his researchers still push back in meetings — a positive for him.
  • Altman previously wrote that he is against bureaucracy and supports fostering open communication.
  • Experts emphasize the importance of polite disagreement to maintain a team's trust and efficiency.

Sam Altman said that being a well-known CEO has created distance with some of his friends and colleagues — with one key exception.

"I spend most of my time with the researchers, and man, I promise you, come with me to the research meeting right after this, and you will see nothing but disrespect. Which is great," Altman said in an interview with Bloomberg Businessweek published on Sunday.

His comments echo how the startup's CEO has previously talked about his leadership style.

In a 2023 blog post, he wrote: "Fight bullshit and bureaucracy every time you see it and get other people to fight it too." He added,"do not let the org chart get in the way of people working productively together."

In a 2019 post on his blog, months before he became OpenAI's CEO, Altman wrote: "One of the best ways to build a network is to develop a reputation for really taking care of the people who work with you." He said leaders should push employees to "accomplish more than they thought they could" without burning out.

In the far-ranging Bloomberg interview, Altman also talked about government bureaucracy hindering AI development, returning after he was briefly fired by the board in 2023, and his work schedule.

He said his executive team meets for three hours on Mondays. During the week he spoke with Bloomberg, he said he also had six one-on-ones with engineers over two days, a research meeting, and several meetings to discuss "building up compute" and to brainstorm products.

He said he communicated far more internally than with people outside the company.

"I'm not a big inspirational email writer, but lots of one-on-one, small-group meetings and then a lot of stuff over Slack," Altman said.

Power of polite disagreements

Workplace experts say polite disagreement with peers — and even top bosses — is essential to keep teams running smoothly.

CEOs across tech, including Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, and LinkedIn cofounder Reid Hoffman, have all highlighted the importance of fostering a culture of disagreement from the top.

In his 2016 letter to shareholders, Bezos wrote about how employees should embrace his "disagree and commit" strategy, which is a way to say: "Look, I know we disagree on this but will you gamble with me on it? Disagree and commit?"

"This isn't one way," Bezos added. "If you're the boss, you should do this too. I disagree and commit all the time."

Joseph Grenny, a corporate trainer and the coauthor of the workplace strategy book "Crucial Conversations," said staying silent can carry its own pitfalls.

In a 2016 interview with the Harvard Business Review, he suggested considering "the risks of not speaking up" — which could be the project falling apart or losing the team's trust — and weighing those against the consequences of saying something.

One way to do it is to ask your manager for permission to disagree, Grenny said, by saying something like, "I know we seem to be moving toward a first-quarter commitment here. I have reasons to think that won't work. I'd like to lay out my reasoning. Would that be OK?"

Sabina Nawaz, a CEO coach who was a senior director of human resources at Microsoft for 15 years, wrote in a 2023 LinkedIn post that avoiding disagreement is more damaging to relationships than speaking up. She recommended finding allies for meetings and asking what others think.

"When co-workers realize you let them proceed with a faulty plan, or waited until the last minute to raise objections, they're likely to lose trust in you," Nawaz wrote.

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