{"id":404127,"date":"2026-04-21T22:38:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T22:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/404127\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T22:38:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T22:38:08","slug":"b-j-novak-on-mindy-kalings-kids-nickname-for-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/404127\/","title":{"rendered":"B.J. Novak on\u00a0Mindy Kaling\u2019s Kids Nickname for Him"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> B.J. Novak Shares Secret to Decades-Long Friendship With Mindy Kaling<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s nothing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1413608\/mindy-kaling-calls-b-j-novak-an-integral-part-of-her-family\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">B.J. Novak<\/a> won\u2019t du-o for <a href=\"https:\/\/eonline.com\/news\/mindy_kaling\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mindy Kaling<\/a>\u2019s kids.<\/p>\n<p>The Devil Wears Prada 2 actor, who is godfather to his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/the_office\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Office<\/a> costar\u2019s three kids Katherine \u201cKit\u201d Swati Kaling, 8, Spencer Tracy Kaling, 5, and Anne Kaling, 2, recently revealed the gift that earned him an adorable nickname.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKit nicknamed me FoFo, which is based on a Duolingo For Kids character\u2014the bear FoFo,\u201d B.J. explained on the April 20 episode of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3wWmnePIJN0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Watch What Happens: Live with Andy Cohen<\/a>. \u201cSo I got her a FoFo stuffed animal for her collection, and that hit the spot.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight:400\">Mindy, who has kept the identity of her kids\u2019 father private, and B.J. have often given insight into his bond with her three little ones, with the Mindy Project star previously calling B.J. an<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1413608\/mindy-kaling-calls-b-j-novak-an-integral-part-of-her-family\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noopener noreferrer nofollow\"> &#8220;important and integral part of my family<\/a>.&#8221;\u00a0In fact, that close dynamic has left some wondering if BJ, whom the Running Point creator has been BFFs with since dating in 2007, is really their dad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"B.J. Novak Shares Secret to Decades-Long Friendship With Mindy Kaling There\u2019s nothing B.J. Novak won\u2019t du-o for Mindy&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":404128,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[458,146,85,46],"class_list":["post-404127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=404127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404127\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/404128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=404127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=404127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=404127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}