Seldom do we find a glam-doll, whose pride lies in the kitchen. Padma Lakshmi makes a statement with her appealing looks as well as with fab culinary skills.
Considered a novelty on the Indian fashion circuit, this dusky damsel was the first of Indians to make it big on the super-ramps of Paris, Milan and New York. Here are answers to the 'how's and 'why's.
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In 1984, when she was 14 years old, Lakshmi met with an accident; this caused an injury to her right arm, which left a 7-inch scar, that is still visible.
Lakshmi walked the ramp first at 16. She was discovered by a modelling agent in India. She grew to become India's first model to make it big in Paris, Milan and New York.
She has appeared on the covers of 'Cosmopolitan', 'L'Officiel India', 'Asian Woman', 'Avenue', 'Industry Magazine', 'Marie Claire' (India Edition), 'Harper's Bazaar', 'Town & Country', and 'Newsweek'. Lakshmi also posed nude for the May 2009 issue of 'Allure' magazine.
She has hosted two one-hour specials on India and Spain for the British culinary tourism show, 'Planet Food', which have been broadcast on the Food Network in the US and internationally on the Discovery Channel.
She was host of the Food Network series, 'Padma's Passport', which was part of the larger series, 'Melting Pot', in 2001.
She has been a hostess of 'Domenica In', Italy's top-rated television show.
Padma hasn't appeared in many movies, though. She starred in the Amitabh Bachchan starrer 'Boom' as Shiela Bardez, one of a trio of super models accused of stealing diamonds.
She was last seen on screen with Aishwarya Rai and Dylan McDermott, in Paul Mayeda Berges' 2005 film 'The Mistress of Spices'.
In 2006, Padma took over as host of the popular TV cooking competition series, 'Top Chef'.
In 2009, she was nominated for an Emmy Award and won it for hosting 'Top Chef' along with Tom Colicchio.
Her first cookbook, 'Easy Exotic', was adjudged the Best First Book at the 1999 World Cookbook Awards at Versailles.
Her second cookbook Tangy, Tart, Hot and Sweet was released October 2, 2007. It did not gain as much recognition as the first one.
On April 17, 2004, in New York City, Lakshmi married writer Salman Rushdie, to whom she was introduced to at a party. However, the couple filed for divorce in July 2007. She has a daughter Krishna, born in february 2010, with businessman Adam Dell
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