135 Quotes by Padma Lakshmi

People always comment about my clothes. They don't think a fashionable woman can love food and be knowledgeable and actually cook.

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

I am a sufferer of endometriosis. I didn't want any young women to go through what I went through. I thought that people should know about it.

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

I'm not attached to things at all. I'm very lucky to have quite a few beautiful things, but if I look back at my life, I was often happiest when I had very little.

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.

During the course of filming 'Top Chef,' I gain 15 lbs., so I'm used to needing two dress sizes.

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

I was the first Indian model to have a career in Paris, Milan and New York.