Padma Lakshmi

I always loved my bangles, I can't remember a time when I didn't have a bangle on.

— Padma Lakshmi

“I once asked her if she was happy. “That depends on what I am able to get done”

— Padma Lakshmi

I love seafood. I'm not a vegetarian but I'm probably a pescetarian.

— Padma Lakshmi

I will eat anything, at least once. For better or worse.

— Padma Lakshmi

“we eat for our stomachs, but we hunger with our hearts.”

— Padma Lakshmi

I always think, after the second glass of wine, you should be putting something in your stomach.

— Padma Lakshmi

“the more brutal or austere the diet, the harder it is to keep.”

— Padma Lakshmi

Every city has a Donald Trump; ours is just the Trumpiest.

— Padma Lakshmi

You don't want your jewelry to make you look fat. A lot of what's out there now does - you just wind…

— Padma Lakshmi

I am a sufferer of endometriosis. I didn't want any young women to go through what I went through. I thought that…

— Padma Lakshmi

People are thrown off by someone who looks feminine, but is also strong. It's not that pretty girls aren't smart, it's that…

— Padma Lakshmi

“The close proximity in which people lived in India was in stark contrast to my independent existence in America.”

— Padma Lakshmi

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…

— Padma Lakshmi

In a way that somebody else converts to Judaism or becomes a Hare Krishna, I belong to the church of fried chicken.

— Padma Lakshmi

I tend to sleep in the nude... I'm a sensual-leaning woman. You have to use the word 'leaning' or it sounds like…

— Padma Lakshmi

The best thing you can do for someone is make them a beautiful plate of food. How else can you invade someone's…

— Padma Lakshmi

You don't need expensive classes and all kinds of weird equipment if you really want to be in shape. There are great…

— Padma Lakshmi

Miami, which has already aired, has this wonderful blend of Caribbean culture and Latin American culture and Southern American culture (talking about…

— Padma Lakshmi

One thing that happens when you're pregnant is that as your stomach starts to stretch. It itches! So I have to keep…

— Padma Lakshmi

I'm not of the American ilk that, you know, your lover needs to be your best friend and know you inside out.…

— Padma Lakshmi

I've been a model for 15 years, and I've been on 'Top Chef' for eight seasons, and before that I had other…

— Padma Lakshmi

In truth, I am a single mother. But I don't feel alone at all in parenting my daughter. Krishna has a whole…

— Padma Lakshmi

For a long time, I didn't know what I wanted to be when I grew up. I was desperate to find something…

— Padma Lakshmi

I like me better naked. I don't mean that in a vain way... When you put clothes on, you immediately put a…

— Padma Lakshmi

I was lucky to have a successful career as a model, but that was just a way to pay off my college…

— Padma Lakshmi

India's had two groovy moments. Once when the Beatles went to India and now when Madonna has embraced yoga.

— Padma Lakshmi

Women's voices not being heard is the root of many of the problems of the world,

— Padma Lakshmi

If you have children in your house you have Frosted Flakes.

— Padma Lakshmi

“He was everything I wasn’t. He was a lot of what I wanted to be.”

— Padma Lakshmi

It doesn't matter how precisely the onion is cut as long as the person chewing it is happy.

— Padma Lakshmi

“I didn’t know what the future held in store for me, but I felt hopeful.”

— Padma Lakshmi

“Hearing doctors tell you that you can’t get pregnant does not extinguish the hope.”

— Padma Lakshmi

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

“I could worry about his health but somehow not about my own. We throw ourselves away a little each day. Dr.”

— Padma Lakshmi

I'm still amazed at how much people are willing to humiliate themselves to be on TV.

— Padma Lakshmi

“Maybe that old adage about not being able to have a good apartment, a good relationship, and a good job at the…

— Padma Lakshmi

I love clothes, but really I don't have that much to say about skirts. Before I was writing, I went to fashion…

— Padma Lakshmi

I grew up a vegetarian. Then, because I grew up in the states, I started slowly eating meat. First it was bologna…

— Padma Lakshmi

Most of cooking is the labor of chopping. Give yourself a break. Pretend you're on a cooking show and have all your…

— Padma Lakshmi

I think eating in itself is the act of great sensuality, so all you have to do is point the camera in…

— Padma Lakshmi