10 celebs once told they weren’t hot enough for Hollywood – But see where they are now! (+Photos)

6. Mindy Kaling

The fabulous and hilarious Mindy Kaling, who once acted on The Office and then went on to write and star in Fox’s The Mindy Project, was told that she wasn’t pretty enough to play herself—on her own show! An undisclosed network previously offered Mindy the show as a writer, but the executives told her that she’d need to hold auditions for who was going to portray her on TV. The network even denied her the role! The network told Kaling pretty directly that she wasn’t attractive enough for viewers to want to watch her every week. We’re guessing the unnamed network regrets those statements now.