Padma Lakshmi

The hot model & ex-wife of the writer Salman Rushdi, Padma Lakshmi was born on September 1, 1970, in Kerala to Malayali parents, but later they moved to Tamil Nadu before spending most of her adolescent life in the United States. She did her graduation from William Workman High School, California. She is a graduate of Clark University in Worcester, USA, where she received a B.A. in Theater Arts.This brown eyed, stunning beauty began hercarrier at the age of 20, when she was discovered by a modeling agent in Spain while sitting in a café. She was the first Indian model to have a career in Paris, Milan and New York. She has modeled for many top designers like Emanuel Ungaro, Ralph Lauren, and Alberta Ferretti and has done many ad campaigns for Roberto Cavalli and Versus.Padma Lakshmi has also 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. She had posed nude for the May 2009 issue of Allure magazine.In Bollywood She acted with Amitabh Bachchan and Jackie Shroff in the Hindi action film Boom as Shiela Bardez, in the year 2003.Lakshmi married the novelist Salman Rushdie, On April 17, 2004, in New York City. Later on, in July 2, 2007, the couple filed for divorce.

Interesting facts about Padma Lakshmi

She speaks five languages.She has a seven inch scar on her inside arm as a result of a major auto crash that she was in as a child.She was discovered by a photographer while spending part of her senior year studying in Spain, who convinced her to begin modeling.Padma wore a Luca Luca purple sari in her April 2004 wedding to Salman Rushdie.She was ranked 87 on the Maxim magazine Hot 100 of 2007 list.