Padma Lakshmi Bio

Padma Parvati Lakshmi, a daughter of Padma Parvati Lakshmi, was born in Chennai, India, on September 1st 1970. Lakshmi was two years old when her parents divorced. Her mother moved to America to escape the shame of divorcing in India. Lakshmi lived for two years with her maternal grandparents, in Chennai, before she came to the United States. Her parents divorced, and she has a younger brother and sister. Lakshmi is a name shared by the Hindu goddess of wealth and prosperity. She was born in New York, then moved to Los Angeles with her stepfather and mother. She went back to India for several months each year to visit family. Padma Lakshmi first became interested in acting at the age of 29 in 1999. She first appeared in the movie "Figlio of Sandokan", which was an Italian pirate film. Then she was cast in "Caraibi" (Pirates Blood Brothers) that is a period drama about 17th century pirates. In 2001 she was also host of Italy's highest-rated television show, 'Domenica in. She was in a hilarious part as a disco singer in a film called 'Glitter. Padma has a child, Krishna Thea Lakshmi Dell with Adam Dell. Adam Dell is a venture capitalist. Krishna was born on February 20, 2010, aged 20. She has also dated Teddy Forstmann, the ex-chairman and CEO of IMG. Lakshmi has a child with American venture capitalist Adam Dell. Lakshmi later revealed that the father of the child was Dell however, she initially kept the identity of Dell from the public. She told her daughter that "everything is better with them around." "Anything from the morning until the night. I'm not able to pay attention to anything else.