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Author, actress, and model Padma Lakshmi picture(s)/pic(s), wallpaper and photo gallery. Birth name: Padma Parvati Lakshmi. Born: September 1, 1970, Madras, India. Height: 5' 9". Hair color: Black. Eye color: Brown. Measurements: 36C - 23 - 35. Weight: 125 lbs. Spouse(s): -Sir Salman Rushdie (17 April 2004 - present) (filed for divorce). Padma Lakshmi biography (bio): Padma Parvati Lakshmi, Lady Rushdie is an Indian-American cookbook author, actress, and model who has described herself as the first well-known model from India. She has been the host of the reality television program Top Chef since season two and is an ambassador for the United Nations Development Fund for Women. She was born into a Tamil Brahmin family in 1970 and raised in Madras, India and the United States. Her first name means "lotus" in Sanskrit, as well as "pearl" or "jewel." Parvati is a consort of Shiva. Lakshmi is the name of the Hindu goddess of wealth. Her parents' only child, Lakshmi is the daughter of an executive with Pfizer and his first wife, Vijaya, a nurse who presently specializes in suicide prevention. The senior Lakshmis separated when their daughter was one and divorced a year later. Both parents later remarried; her mother's third and present husband is a plumber. She reportedly had no further contact with her father until 1998. When she was 14 years old, she was involved in a serious automobile accident, causing an injury of her right arm, which required surgery leaving a 7 inch scar, between her elbow and shoulder. By a later marriage of her father's, Lakshmi has a half-brother and a half-sister, who was an actress and classical dancer but is now pursuing a career with special-needs children. As Lakshmi said in an interview published in The Guardian, "My father had quit his job as an executive at Pfizer to manage her career. That was kind of like rubbing salt in the wound. I didn't understand why he wanted that relationship with her, and not with me." Reportedly, she spent part of her childhood attending elementary school in Chennai, India. Lakshmi is a 1992 graduate of Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts, where she received a B.A. with honors in Theater Arts. Lakshmi was brought up as a vegetarian and has admitted that because of this, she sometimes becomes "squeamish" when sampling other cultural delicacies. Marriage: On April 17, 2004, in New York City, Lakshmi married the novelist Salman Rushdie, to whom she was introduced at a party hosted by the journalist and editor Tina Brown. By him, she has two stepsons, Zafar and Milan. On July 2, 2007 the couple filed for divorce, shortly after Rushdie was granted a knighthood. When questioned about Rushdie's age (he is seven years younger than her father) and her long estrangement from her father (whom she has described as "the most sexy, manic, in-shape, lean, tall, handsome man I have ever met") Lakshmi has said that there may be a correlation: "I think that we are attracted to what we feel we need." Career Modeling: Lakshmi's career began at age 20, when she was discovered by a high-profile modeling agent in Spain while sitting in a cafe. As she has 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." She has modeled for top designers such as Emanuel Ungaro, Ralph Lauren, and Alberta Ferretti and done ad campaigns for Roberto Cavalli and Versus. She was a favorite model of the photographer Helmut Newton, whose photographs of her often highlighted the large scar on her right arm. She has appeared on the magazine covers of Cosmopolitan - January 2002, Vogue - May 2004, L'Officiel India - October 2004, You – December 19, 2004, Shoo - Spring 2005, Harper's Bazaar - October 2005, Newsweek - March 6, 2006, Asian Woman – May/June 2006, Avenue - July/August 2006, and Industry - February/March 2007. Movie and television: Lakshmi had a comical supporting role as the lipsynching disco singer Sylk in the 2001 American movie Glitter with Mariah Carey. She co-starred with Amitabh Bachchan and Jackie Shroff in the 2003 Hindi action box office failure Boom as Shiela Bardez, one of a trio of supermodels accused of stealing diamonds. Lakshmi was last seen on screen as Geeta with Aishwarya Rai and Dylan McDermott in Paul Mayeda Berges' 2005 film The Mistress of Spices. Padma will be starring in Oscar-nominated director Deepa Mehta's (Water) upcoming 2007 film, Kamagata Maru which was earlier titled Exclusion. Padma Lakshmi made a 2002 guest appearance as alien princess Kaitaama in Precious Cargo, the 37th episode of the popular science fiction TV series Star Trek: Enterprise. She was also hostess of Domenica In, Italy's top-rated television show. She portrayed Sean Bean's nemesis in the 2004 -2005 iTV TV series Sharpe's Challenge. In 2006 Lakshmi appeared in ABC's TV series The Ten Commandments with Dougray Scott, Naveen Andrews, and Omar Sharif. Padma took over as hostess of the popular TV cooking competition series Top Chef in 2006 during its second season and continues in 2007 in its third season. Cookbooks: Her first cookbook Easy Exotic was awarded Best First Book at the 1999 World Cookbook Awards at Versailles. She was host of the Food Network series, Padma's Passport, which is part of the larger series Melting Pot. She has also been a guest host on parts of the British culinary tourism show Planet Food, hosting the segments on India and Spain. Her second cookbook Tangy, Tart, Hot and Sweet was released October 2, 2007

Padma Lakshmi arrives at the Bravo's 2nd Annual A-List Awards on on the April 5th, 2009 By User: anorexicpride 1 Votes, 4/5 Padma Lakshmi arrives at the Bravo's 2nd Annual A-List Awards on on the April 5th, 2009 By User: redeyepics 0 Votes, 0/5 Padma Lakshmi arrives at the 61st Primetime Emmy Awards held at the Nokia Theatre on September 20th 2009 in Los Angeles By User: sweet51 0 Votes, 0/5 Padma Lakshmi arrives at the 61st Primetime Emmy Awards held at the Nokia Theatre on September 20th 2009 in Los Angeles By User: sweet51 0 Votes, 0/5 Padma Lakshmi arrives at the 61st Primetime Emmy Awards held at the Nokia Theatre on September 20th 2009 in Los Angeles By User: sweet51 2 Votes, 3/5 Padma Lakshmi arrives at the 61st Primetime Emmy Awards held at the Nokia Theatre on September 20th 2009 in Los Angeles By User: sweet51 0 Votes, 0/5 Padma Lakshmi arrives at the 61st Primetime Emmy Awards held at the Nokia Theatre on September 20th 2009 in Los Angeles By User: sweet51 0 Votes, 0/5 Padma Lakshmi arrives at the 61st Primetime Emmy Awards held at the Nokia Theatre on September 20th 2009 in Los Angeles By User: sweet51 1 Votes, 5/5 Padma Lakshmi photo shoot for the Page Six magazine issue of December 2009 2 By User: bignoseeddy 3 Votes, 5/5 Padma Lakshmi photo shoot for the Page Six magazine issue of December 2009 1 By User: bignoseeddy 0 Votes, 0/5

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