Padma_LakshmiPadma was born in Madras, now Chennai (Tamil Nadu) in a Tamil Iyer family before spending most of her adolescent life in the United States. Lakshmi graduated from William Workman High School in the City of Industry, California.

Lakshmi is a 1992 graduate of Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts, USA, where she received a B.A. with honors in Theatre Arts.

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Fashion, films, books, charity and appreciation for paintings are some of the special interests of Padma Lakshmi. On September 1, the model-turned actress celebrates her birthday and we wish her luck on her special day.


Modeling

Lakshmi’s career began at age 20, when she was discovered by a modeling agent in Spain while sitting in a café. 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 modelled 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 cover 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

Movies and television

Lakshmi had a comical supporting role as the lip synching disco singer Sylk in the 2001 American movie Glitter with Mariah Carey. She starred with Amitabh Bachchan and Jackie Shroff in the 2003 Hindi action box office failure Boom as Shiela Bardez, one of a trio of super models 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. She will be starring[citation needed] in Deepa Mehta’s upcoming film, Komagata Maru which was earlier titled Exclusion.

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, in 2001.

Personal life

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 Born On July 2, 2007, the couple filed for divorce, shortly after Rushdie was granted a knighthood she is the model for one of the central characters — and love interests — in Rush die’s novel, Fury (a novel dedicated to her as well).

When questioned about Rush die’s age (he is only 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.”

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