She’s 5′9″, statuesque, with a beautiful smile, intelligent, independent, and she’s aging really well. She’s Padma Lakshmi. She’s 38 years now and is one of those rare types that radiate more beauty as they age. In my books she’s in the Sophia Loren, Angelina Jolie category. Even the large 7″ scar on her right arm only seems to add to her appeal. As does the fact that she’s a cerebral babe and her very first cookbook Easy Exotic won the Best First Book at the 1999 World Cookbook Awards at Versailles.
Padma was born in India, in Southern India to be exact and raised in the U.S. She’s lost none of her spicy smoldering Indian sensuality. Her chiseled features inspired photographer Helmut Newton to new creative heights and to be sure we all loved her nude photographs.
Padma Lakshmi has been around for a while notching up impressive modeling assignments on the international circuit. She has featured in campaigns for Emanuel Ungaro, Ralph Lauren, and Alberta Ferretti. She’s been hosting Top Chef from its second season onwards and the program is into its fifth season now.
Padma Lakshmi was till 2007 the better half of celebrated British writer Salman Rushdie.
We leave you with a Padma Lakshmi quote, remember the lady’s turned to meat only recently, she was a staunch vegetarian all this time – “In southern Spain, they made me eat a bull’s testicles. They were really garlicky, which I don’t like. I prefer to take a bull by the horns, not by, um…”
(Photo By: Gray Scott)
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