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NAME:
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Padma Lakshmi |
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PROFILE:
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Name: Padma Lakshmi
Birth Name: Padma Parvati Lakshmi
Sex: F
Nationality: American
Birth Date: 1970
Birth Place: Madras, India
Profession: actress, former model, tv host
Education: Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts, USA (graduated with BA in theater arts)
Husband/Wife: Salman Rushdie (novelist; born on June 19, 1947; engaged on February 14, 2004; married on April 17, 2004; filed for divorce on July 2, 2007)
Claim to fame: Her own cooking show, Padma's Passport, on the Food Network
Contact: Click here
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- Her second cookbook Tangy, Tart, Hot and Sweet is due for release in September 2007
- Padma and Salman Rushdie announced their intent to divorce on July 2, 2007. When the couple's divorce becomes final, she will properly be known, socially, as Padma, Lady Rushdie, the style granted to a divorcée.
- Listed in People Magazine's 100 Most Beautiful issue. (May 7, 2007).
- Ranked #87 on the Maxim magazine Hot 100 of 2007 list.
- Speaks five languages.
- Has a seven inch scar on her inside arm as a result of a major auto crash that she was in as a child.
- Hosts Padma's Passport on the Food Network based on her popular cookbook, Easy Exotic: A Model's Low-fat Recipes From Around The World.
- Officially announced engagement to author Salman Rushdie on February 14, 2004, the 15th anniversary of the infamous fatwa issued against Rushdie by Islamic radicals for writing the novel The Satanic Verses.
- Was discovered by a photographer while spending part of her senior year studying in Spain and he convinced her to begin modeling.
- Wore a Luca Luca purple sari in her April 2004 wedding to Salman Rushdie.
- Her first name literally means lotus in Sanskrit; Lakshmi is the name of the Hindu goddess of wealth.
- Was brought up as a vegetarian. She has admitted that being raised vegetarian sometimes makes her squeamish when sampling other cultural delicacies.
- Her first cookbook Easy Exotic was awarded Best First Book at the 1999 World Cookbook Awards at Versailles.
- Created her own film production company, Lakshmi Productions.
- Appear in television commercial for the designers Versus and Roberto Cavalli.
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