Padma Parvati Lakshmi born September 1, 1970 is a model, television host, actress and an Indian American cookbook author. Her debut cookbook titled Easy Exotic won her the Best First Book award at the Gourmand World Cookbook Awards (1999). She has also hosted US-based reality television program Top Chef since 2006.
Padma Lakshmi was born in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, in an Iyengar Brahmin family. Her father worked as a Pfizer executive and her mother Vijaya, was a nurse. She is her parents\' only child from this marriage. Her parents separated when she turned one and divorced a year later. Hence she grew up shuttling between her grandparents in Chennai and her mother in New York.
Both parents later remarried.
Lakshmi studied at the Workman High School in the City of Industry, California. Lakshmi graduated from Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts, where she received a B.A. (Honors) in Theatre Arts.
She speaks English, Tamil, Hindi, Italian and Spanish.
Lakshmi\'s modeling career began at 18, when a modeling agent discovered her in Madrid, Spain. She once stated, "I was the first Indian model to have a career in Paris, Milan and New York. I\'m the first one to admit that I was a novelty." Lakshmi paid off her college loans with the money she earned.
Lakshmi appeared on the covers of many magazines like RedBook, Vogue India, FHM, Cosmopolitan, L\'Officiel India, Asian Woman, Avenue, Industry Magazine, Marie Claire, Harper\'s Bazaar, Town & Country, and Newsweek.
On April 17, 2004, in New York City, Lakshmi married the novelist Salman Rushdie, 23 years her senior. On July 2, 2007, the couple filed for divorce. She is the model for one of the central characters in Rushdie\'s novel Fury (a novel dedicated to her).
Her first cookbook Easy Exotic was a compilation of international recipes. Her second cookbook, Tangy, Tart, Hot and Sweet, was released October 2, 2007.
On October 1, 2009, after years of struggling with endometriosis, a condition that has been associated with infertility, Lakshmi confirmed that she was pregnant. Lakshmi later co-founded The Endometriosis Foundation of America, a NPO focused on increasing awareness, education and research against the disease. On February 20, 2010, Lakshmi gave birth to a baby girl named Krishna Thea Lakshmi.
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