Mindy Kaling welcomed her daughter, Katherine, over a year ago and there's still no word on who the father is — and that's how she's going to keep it for now.

In an interview with New York Times, the comedian explained her decision.

"My feeling is that until I speak to my daughter about that, I’m not going to talk to anyone else about it," Kaling told the publication.

The 39-year-old actress is also balancing being a mother and working just fine. Her love for her work will never change, she said, but now that she's a parent, the type of work she does has slightly adjusted.

"When I did the first season of “The Mindy Project” at Hulu, they were like, 'You could do as many episodes in a season as you want.' And I was like, 'Can we do the maximum?' But waking up at 5 o’clock in the morning to do 26 episodes of TV is not something that I’m going to do again," she said. "Right now I’m surprised at how much I enjoy being a mom."

Motherhood is different

Her surprise stems from what she thought was her lack of maternal instinct. She said she's a naturally impatient person and didn't know how that impatience would pan out with a child.

"But they don’t tell you that the thing will look so much like you, and do things that are so sweet and adorable, that you’ll naturally not have the same impatience that you would have with a stranger or someone who works for you," she said.

'I don't think anyone is ever ready'

Though Kaling has never revealed who her child’s father is, she did open up to USA TODAY about deciding to become a mom.

“I wasn’t ready. I don’t think anyone is ever ready. I definitely knew I wanted kids, but the decision, it was not something that I had, like, planned,” she said.

Mornings with Katherine start with a sweet dose of swing time in the backyard. “We have such a small family, it’s just the two of us, but I take her with me everywhere whenever I travel,” she said.

As someone who says she didn't see herself as maternal, "I have been really surprised by how much I crave time with her. Just that there was a side of me that could really enjoy being around the baby."

And they're two peas in a pod. "It helps that she was, like, identical to me,” she smiles. “And is really funny.”

Contributing Andrea Mandell.

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