Padma Lakshmi

Padma Lakshmi attends Bravo Media's 2011 Upfront Presentation on March 30, 2011, in Los Angeles. The India-born "Top Chef" host is an actress, model and cookbook author.

TV personality Padma Lakshmi visits "FOX and Friends" on April 12, 2011, in New York. She starte d her career as a model and has walked the runway for such designers as Emanuel Ungaro, Ralph Lauren and Alberta Ferretti.

Model/television personality Padma Lakshmi attends the Endometriosis Foundation of America's 3rd Annual Blossom Ball on March 18, 2011 in New York.

TV personality and model Padma Lakshmi attends the 2010 Endometriosis Foundation of America Holiday Celebration on Dec. 21, 2010, in New York. A single mother, she gave birth to a birth to a baby girl named Krishna in 2010.

TV personality Padma Lakshmi attends the Women's Wear Daily 100 Anniversary Gala on Nov. 2, 2010, in New York.

Padma Lakshmi arrives at the 62nd Annual Primetime Emmy Awards on Aug. 29, 2010, in Los Angeles.

Padma Lakshmi, Tom Colicchio and Gail Simmons, right, pose in the press room with the award for Outstanding Reality-Competition Program for "Top Chef" during the 62nd Primetime Emmy Awards on Sunday, Aug. 29, 2010, in Los Angeles.

Television personality Padma Lakshmi attends a special screening of "A Single Man" at The Museum of Modern Art on Dec. 6, 2009, in New York.

Host Padma Lakshmi, left, and judge Gail Simmons are seen onstage during the presentation for "Top Chef: Las Vegas" at the NBC Universal Television Critics Association summer press tour in Pasadena, Calif. on Aug. 5, 2009.

TV personality Padma Lakshmi attends the 2009 CFDA Fashion Awards in New York, Monday, June 15, 2009.

Padma Lakshmi, host of the television series "Top Chef," applauds whilte watching semifinal match between Roger Federer, of Switzerland, and Novak Djokovic, of Serbia, at the U.S. Open tennis tournament in New York, Sept. 6, 2008.

Padma Lakshmi, model and host of Bravo's "Top Chef," greets Gayle King, Editor-at-Large for O magazine, at the reception preceeding the 2008 National Magazine Awards presented by the American Society of Magazine Editors in New York, May 1, 2008.

Actress Padma Lakshmi poses for photographers in her arrival to the White House Correspondents dinner in Washington on April 26, 2008.

Television personality Padma Lakshmi attends The Breast Cancer Research Foundation's "Hottest Pink Party Ever" benefit on April 8, 2008, in New York.

From left, "Top Chef" host Padma Lakshmi, YouthAIDS founder and president Kate Roberts, Bono and Ashley Judd arrive at the YouthAIDS Benefit Gala, on Nov. 2, 2007, at the Ritz Carlton in Mclean, Va.

TV personality Padma Lakshmi arrives at the 4th Annual Black Ball concert for Keep a Child Alive (KCA) presented by the Conde Nast Media Group at Hammerstein Ballroom on Oct. 25, 2007, in New York.

Alain Tasma, left, and Edouard de Vesinne, right, accept the TV Movie/Mini-Series award from Padma Lakshmi for the French production "Nuit Noire, Oct. 17, 1961," at the 2006 International Emmy Awards Gala in New York, Nov. 20, 2006.

Television personality Padma Lakshmi attends the 34th International Emmy Awards Gala, Nov. 20, 2006, in New York.

Writer Salman Rushdie accompanies model Padma Lakshmi to the opening-night performance of the Metropolitan Opera 2006-2007 season at Lincoln Center on Sept. 25, 2006, in New York. The two were married from 2004 to 2007.

Salman Rushdie and Model Padma Lakshmi attend the Metropolitan Opera 2006-2007 season opening night at Lincoln Center on Sept. 25, 2006, in New York.

Writer Salman Rushdie and Padma Lakshmi arrive at the New York premiere of "The Hunting of the President," June 16, 2004.

British writer Salman Rushdie kisses his wife Padma Lakshmi, as they arrive for the screening of the film "Comme une Image" in competition, directed by French director Agnes Jaoui, at the 57th Film Festival in Cannes, France, May 16, 2004.