30 Padma Lakshmi Quotes for You to Enjoy

Padma Lakshmi

Indian Chef

Born: Sep 1, 1970

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I like me better naked. I don't mean that in a vain way... When you put clothes on, you immediately put a character on. Clothes are adjectives, they are indicators. When you don't have any clothes on, it's just you, raw, and you can't hide. Padma Lakshmi

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I've been a model for 15 years, and I've been on 'Top Chef' for eight seasons, and before that I had other cooking shows, so I've learned a thing or two about how to camouflage certain areas and how to draw the eye to a preferable area of the body. Padma Lakshmi

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You don't need expensive classes and all kinds of weird equipment if you really want to be in shape. There are great ways to do it that are very economical, it just takes a time commitment, even if it means waking up a half hour a day before the rest of the household gets up because that's the only time you have. Padma Lakshmi

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Where is it written that a smart woman can't also be stacked? Padma Lakshmi

Woman Smart Written Also Stacked Where

For a while, I became an atheist; now that I'm grown up, though, I'm not hard-edged enough to be an atheist. Even though I live with a flaming atheist, I love going to temple. I love all the rituals. Padma Lakshmi

Love Atheist Live Enough Though Temple Rituals Became Up Going Flaming While Even Grown Now Grown-Up

I love clothes, but really I don't have that much to say about skirts. Before I was writing, I went to fashion shows only when the designer was a good friend and I was there to show support. Padma Lakshmi

Love Good Fashion Writing Before Clothes Say About Only Support Friend Much Really Show Skirts Shows Good Friend Designer

I'm not of the American ilk that, you know, your lover needs to be your best friend and know you inside out. I think he should know you well enough to please you. Otherwise, what secret will there be to tell him when you're ninety? Padma Lakshmi

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All chefs are like Jewish mothers. They want to feed you and feed you and impress you. It's an eagerness to please. Padma Lakshmi

You Impress Please Feed Like Chefs Mothers Want Eagerness Jewish

Whether I'm making a recipe or a piece of jewelry or a white-rose-and-jasmine tea or the perfume, I like to think of myself as a happy little sorceress, and if I could just have a little general store with all that stuff and give people a sense of my taste, that would be lovely. Padma Lakshmi

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I'm an immigrant kid who came to America from India when I was very young and grew up in New York City with a single mom and really was influenced by all of those immigrant cultures bumping up against each other. Padma Lakshmi

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Every country I would go to, even if it was just on a modeling job, I would go to their markets. If I went to Morocco for 'Elle' magazine, I would be in the spice markets during my off time and just come back with a suitcase full of stuff that I really wanted to try. Padma Lakshmi

I have great empathy for all the contestants that come on 'Top Chef,' whether they go home right away or they make it to the finish line. It's a very vulnerable position they put themselves in and I feel for them. Padma Lakshmi

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One thing that happens when you're pregnant is that as your stomach starts to stretch. It itches! So I have to keep my belly really lubricated. Every morning, there's a buttering ceremony after I get out of the shower. It's really like basting a turkey with body butter. Padma Lakshmi

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I am as omnivorous as it's possible to be. I always say there's nothing I won't eat and nothing I won't wear. Padma Lakshmi

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In truth, I am a single mother. But I don't feel alone at all in parenting my daughter. Krishna has a whole other side of her family who loves her, too. And so Krishna is parented by me, but also by her grandmother and aunts and cousins and uncles and friends. Padma Lakshmi

Truth Alone Family Me Parenting Mother Daughter Single Too Other Side Uncles Feel Also Single Mother Am Cousins Krishna Aunts Friends Loves Grandmother Who Whole Her

I've always thought the back is one of the most beautiful parts of a woman. I've created four versions of the front-to-back necklace which actually gives you two necklaces in one. I love the way they swing and catch the light as a woman is walking away. You almost want to pull on it and stop her! Padma Lakshmi

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