Padma Lakshmi
Padma Lakshmi
Padma Lakshmi is an Indian-born American author, actress, model, television host and executive producer. Her debut cookbook Easy Exotic won her the "Best First Book" award at the 1999 Gourmand World Cookbook Awards. She has been the host of the US reality television program Top Chef since season two in 2006, for which she received a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Host for a Reality or Reality-Competition Program. In 2010, Top Chef won the Emmy Award for...
NationalityIndian
ProfessionTV Actress
Date of Birth1 September 1970
CityChennai, India
CountryIndia
I'm not attached to things at all. I'm very lucky to have quite a few beautiful things, but if I look back at my life, I was often happiest when I had very little.
I was lucky to have a successful career as a model, but that was just a way to pay off my college loans.
I don't have any stigma attached to my body. When I'm in my own private space, I have very little on.
I grew up a vegetarian. Then, because I grew up in the states, I started slowly eating meat. First it was bologna sandwiches, or pepperoni on pizza.
I know most people use their phones to tell time, but there's something very romantic and beautiful about a timepiece.
I love seafood. I'm not a vegetarian but I'm probably a pescetarian.
I have a great career, and I have my daughter. Sio what I don't have is not as important to as what I do have.
Wine, like food, is so emotional. If you think about it, so much of the courting ritual is surrounded by wine and food. There's a built-in romance to wine.
I tend to sleep in the nude... I'm a sensual-leaning woman. You have to use the word 'leaning' or it sounds like I'm boasting.
I always think, after the second glass of wine, you should be putting something in your stomach.
I've always thought the back is one of the most beautiful parts of a woman.
DON'T wear loud clanging bangles at work, it's disruptive and noisy and your coworkers won't appreciate it! Bangles should have a gentle wind-chimey tinkle, not the crash bang of a million pots and pans.
Decide which you want to play up: your clothing or your jewelry, but not both. Let one be the star and one the supporting player.
I always loved my bangles, I can't remember a time when I didn't have a bangle on.