Padma Lakshmi has a bun in the oven, and everyone in town wants to know, “who’s the daddy?” The Top Chef star talks passion, divorce, kids and why life is sweeter than ever. Here’s a few exerts from Padma’s interview with Page Six Magazine that will be online on Thursday, December 3.
On the focus and dedication it takes to look incredible for a photo shoot:
“You can eat and work out, or you can be the person who only eats a cucumber every day. I’d get really irritable if all I ate was a cucumber, so I have to work hard.”
On trying to go a little easier on herself this winter.
“One of the reasons I think I’ve gained weight pretty quickly during my pregnancy is that I’m not exercising as much as I do normally…I can’t. I’m feeling tired, and I have this business to run. You hope that with age, what you pay for in gravity, you gain in gravitas. I’m sure my thighs looked better when I was 25, but I think my mind is better today.”
On being recognized everywhere she goes:
“I went to a bar mitzvah on the Upper East Side last year, and not to toot my own horn, but I might as well have been Michael Jackson to these 13-year-old boys and girls. There were something like 30 children around me, and they were all practically hyperventilating. I had this swarm of little kids going, ‘Oh, my god! Oh, my god!’ Kids are so authentic, so pure, and they’d be telling me, ‘My sister and I had an amuse-bouche contest, and we need you to tell us who should have won.’ I think that’s really cool.”
On her ex, Salman Rushdie, and the launch of her new business ventures, including a jewelry line at Bergdorf Goodman and the Home Shopping Network:
“I [have been] reconstructing my life and putting it back together in a way that looked more appropriate to who I was. At this point in my career, I’m still growing. Jewels, spices and teas-I sound like Magellan.”
Check out the whole interview with Padma – including more exclusive pictures – on Thursday, Dec 3 in Page Six Magazine, free inside the New York Post here.
I watch “Top Chef” and always thought Padma came across as chilly and unapproachable. In this interview, she comes across as funny and down to earth.
She is stunning
mmm cucumbers
shes pretty.
Haven’t seen top chef. she’s real pretty.
She is really stunning, and seems way more friendly here!
She’s beautiful! I guess her Top Chef persona is more of an act than reality.