Mindy Kaling Wasn't Hot Enough to Play Herself on Her First Sitcom

Mindy Kaling appeared on The Howard Stern Show, Monday morning, and talked about how she had to audition to act as herself in the first sitcom she wrote--and didn't get the part.

After the success of a play Kaling and Brenda Withers co-wrote called "Matt & Ben" (based on the life of Matt Damon and Ben Affleck before they became stars) the pair of writer-performers were hired by Steve Martin to create, "Mindy and Brenda", for The WB in 2006.

"They did not think we were attractive enough to play the parts," Kaling said about the casting for "Mindy and Brenda." "We had to audition for our own parts.

We were in this room with all these girls who were much hotter versions of us, and we did not get the parts in our own pilot."

The third season of her new hit sitcom, The Mindy Project, premieres Tuesday night at 9:30 p.m. on Fox, and this time, she's in the spotlight.

"It is literally the thing I dreamed about when I was five years old," said Kaling about writing and acting for her own show.

"I'm addicted to feedback, which is a bad quality of mine." Though she doesn't take Internet comments too seriously.

"Narcissistically, I love it when they're like, 'Oh, you look hot,' but then the next person is like, 'Oh, go back to Iraq, you towelhead.'