People Magazine’s “Most Beautiful” issue has always been a joke — part reach-around for the stars whose PR flacks give the magazine the best fodder, part pandering to the women who read it on the treadmill — and the sneak peek at this year’s edition is no different. Among the stars deemed “most beautiful” are tabloid headliners Katie Holmes, Jessica Simpson, Sandra Bullock, and Jennifer Lopez, charity cases like Dana Delany, and pretty boys Zac Efron and Ryan Reynolds.
But that’s not the point. The point is that “Office” stars Mindy Kaling and Ellie Kemper (both former interns for Conan O’Brien) are also on People’s list. Here’s their blurb:
Being book smart didn’t help Kemper, a Princeton grad, when it came to Beauty 101. “I have learned to moisturize,” the 30-year-old star of The Office tells PEOPLE of what she’s picked up from Hollywood. As for costar Kaling, the fellow Ivy Leaguer – a Dartmouth alum – is ready to embrace beauty over brains: “I identify as a comedy writer, so to get compliments on appearance, that’s the nicest compliment – to be shallow!”
Awww, c’mon People! These women went to Ivy League schools, became accomplished writers and actresses in one of TV’s most successful sitcoms — and they’re both perfectly attractive. Do we really need to blow smoke up their asses? The only thing that was keeping them grounded was their feeling of inferiority when compared to all the super-hot women in Los Angeles. Why, we were THIS close to giving Mindy an eating disorder!
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Let’s all take them down a peg: Ellie Kemper is NOT funny. At all. And Mindy Kaling is… actually, she’s cool.
Agreed. And this Bridesmaids movie will do great at the box office even though it is going to suck more than a new Hoover.
I recently learned Ellie Kemper is part of THE Kempers. You know Kemper Arena in KC? That’s her family. She suddenly got a lot hotter in my mind.
@donturtuccio: that joke would have been better if you’d made it into a Mega Maid reference.
Also, I’m a fan of the Jessica Simpson picture from the People link, but she should be nowhere near the Top 25 on this list.
I would smash Ellie Kemper’s coochie with a hammer until it was a fleshy gelatin, take that meaty pink sludge and put it into a plastic seahorse mold, and stick it in my fridge.
In the Jim and Pam get married episode, during the “viral video dance sequence”, Ellie Kemper does this jump-twirl and you can see her underwear.
The end.
I love them both, so I won’t argue with this. And, really, if People wanted to put me on this list, I wouldn’t turn them down. Do I deserve it? No. Do I love validation? Hell yes.
Ellie Kemper is a cutie. She was on one of the late night shows a few months ago…
Mindy is the cool chick with the great personality… the end
Maaaaake out!
Any time I catch a new Office I’m continually frustrated by the writers’ inability to give Kemper something, anything to work with. Hence why I don’t watch the office.
They may not be the Most Beautiful, but they would be on any list of Cute Girls Who Are Funny and Pretty Cool.
Which, let’s be honest, is a very small list.
Is that Mindy in that picture?
Dark person beautiful? The word you’re looking for is “exotic” People…jeeze.
Once again Alison Brie’s labia has been snubbed, gashing her hopes. What a farce!
Were they judging Jen lopez and Jessica Simpson on what they USED to look like, because thats about the only explanation here.
At least Christina Hendricks has big tits to compensate for being an albino.
Red-ish albino, maybe strawberryino or beige-ino.
My grandmother’s china dolls are a duller shade of white than either of them. That said, I love the hell out of Christina.
As for the rest of this abomination of a magazine, looking at the cover photo on WWTDD has convinced me that People was apparently going for a Cubist photograph of JLo because if it’s not their Sexiest Woman has a forehead like Rocky Dennis.