--- title: Oprah Got Minday Kaling a Fabulously Large Gift for Her Baby description: Mindy Kaling shared that her baby daughter Katherine Kaling has already received an incredible gift from 'Wrinkle in Time' co-star Oprah. canonical: https://time.com/5179847/oprah-baby-gift-mindy-kaling/ author: Cady Lang article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-02-28T20:46:28.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:51:00.918Z og:title: Mindy Kaling's Baby Got a Fabulously Large Gift from Oprah og:description: Perks of being BFFs with Oprah og:url: https://time.com/5179847/oprah-baby-gift-mindy-kaling/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc6523ef790afcb30/698929284ee26246db31107f/oprah-mindy-kaling-baby-gift.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2000 og:image:height: 1125 og:image:alt: Disney's D23 EXPO 2017 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Mindy Kaling's Baby Got a Fabulously Large Gift from Oprah twitter:description: Perks of being BFFs with Oprah twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc6523ef790afcb30/698929284ee26246db31107f/oprah-mindy-kaling-baby-gift.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Oprah's Fabulous Baby Gift for Mindy Kaling's Daughter Was So Big It Needed Its Own U-Haul Truck > Sponsored content. 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(Photo by Jesse Grant/Getty Images for Disney) Jesse Grant—Getty Images for Disney  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Feb 28, 2018 8:46 PM UTC When [Mindy Kaling](http://time.com/4901376/mindy-kaling-on-pregnancy/) was pregnant with her baby daughter Katherine last year, it was her [_Wrinkle in Time_](http://time.com/wrinkle-in-time/) co-star [Oprah](http://time.com/5177771/starbucks-barista-doesnt-know-oprah/) who [spilled the beans to the world](http://people.com/babies/oprah-mindy-kaling-shared-pregnancy-news/) that _The Mindy Project_ multi-hyphenate was expecting. Now that little Katherine is born, it appears that Oprah is still a major influence in this mother-and-daughter duo’s life, already thinking about Kaling’s daughter’s reading needs. In an interview with [_USA Today_](https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/entertainthis/2018/02/26/mindy-kaling-confirms-oprah-gives-most-insane-baby-gifts-ever/372095002/), Kaling shared that after the baby was born, Oprah let her know that she would be sending over a present. “I got a call from my assistant. She said, ‘Oprah’s assistant contacted me, she’d like to drop off a present,'” Kaling said. “I’m thinking, that’s so nice, like, (it’s) probably flowers. I had a kid, I’m a single mom. That’s really nice Oprah remembered.” What she hadn’t anticipated, however, was that the present would be so big that it would need its own U-Haul truck. “Two men are going to be coming to your house, they said, with a U-Haul truck. All you want in life is to hear that two men in a U-Haul truck are coming to your house because Oprah sent them. I was supposed to go to work that day (but I was like), I gotta be here.” The present not only lived up to the expectations, but according to Kaling, exceeded them. “They arrived with a hand-carved bookcase, prettier than any professional dollhouse you had ever seen that contained a hundred of the classic essential books in children’s literature,” Kaling said. “And I held my baby up to it and I said, ‘Did you see what Ms. Winfrey did for you?’ Each book has ‘Katherine’s Book Club’ on it.” Winfrey commented that the gift was not quite as perfect as she wanted it to be since she had tried to make the bookshelf look like the treehouse that Kaling’s _Wrinkle in Time_ character, Mrs. Who, lives in. 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