Padma Lakshmi
Padma Lakshmi ( born September 1, 1970 in Chennai, India) is an American film actress, television presenter and model.
Life
Early life
Padma Lakshmi was born as the only child of an employee of pharmaceutical giant Pfizer and a nurse. Her parents separated when Padma was a year old, and divorced a year later. Both later married again, from these marriages of their parents Padma Lakshmi has two half-siblings.
Lakshmi grew up with her mother in New York City and later in Malibu. In industry, a suburb of Los Angeles, she graduated from high school. In 1984, the then 14 -year-old Lakshmi female passenger in a car that was involved in a traffic accident. Lakshmi survived with partly severe injuries, including a broken hip; today only remembers a nearly 17 -centimeter-long scar on her right arm in the incident.
After high school she enrolled at Clark University in Worcester (Massachusetts ) a where she earned Bachelor's degree in theater arts in 1992.
Padma Lakshmi speaks five languages fluently, in addition to their mother tongue Malayalam, English, Spanish, Italian, and Tamil.
Career
Lakshmi was discovered at the age of 16 years while vacationing in India by a model scout. As one of the first Indian Models they stood soon after in Paris, Milan and New York on the catwalk. Among her clients were known Ralph Lauren, Emanuel Ungaro, Roberto Cavalli and Versace. She was also displayed in numerous fashion magazines, including the famous Cosmopolitan and Harper 's Bazaar. A native of Germany Photographer Helmut Newton tried their physical flaw - her scar on her arm - never to touch up, so that Lakshmi is considered to be one of the few models with "flaws ".
Your career as an actress began in 1998 as Actress Lakshmi in the Italian TV movie The Son of Sandokan. Other roles she took over in 2002 as a guest star an episode of Star Trek: Enterprise and in 2006 in the TV movie The Ten Commandments, in which she portrayed the Egyptian princess Bithia.
Since 2002, it also moderates the kitchen show Top Chef, in which, similar to its German counterpart, candidates have to cook for a jury. In 2007, she published a cookbook itself under the title Tangy, Tart, Hot and Sweet: A World of Recipes for Every Day.
Private
On April 17, 2004 Padma Lakshmi married the writer Salman Rushdie also from India, whom she had met at a party in 1999. The marriage lasted three years; on July 2, 2007, the divorce.
Lakshmi suffered for years from endometriosis, so that the doctors suspected, Lakshmi could be life time unable to get their own children. For everyone involved surprisingly Lakshmi was still 20 February 2010 mother of one daughter. The child's father is the American entrepreneur Adam Dell, the younger brother of Dell founder Michael Dell.