Padma Lakshmi

Lakshmi in 2009, photo by Featureflash/Shutterstock.com

Birth Name: Padma Parvati Lakshmi

Place of Birth: Madras, Tamil Nadu, India

Date of Birth: September 1, 1970

Ethnicity: Tamil Indian

Padma Lakshmi is an Indian-American author, activist, actress, model, philanthropist, and television host. She is known for hosting Top Chef, and for her show Taste the Nation with Padma Lakshmi.

Padma was born in Madras, now Chennai, into a Tamil Brahmin family. Her mother, Vijaya, is an oncology nurse. She moved to the U.S. at the age of four, and was raised in New York City, New York, and then La Puente, California.

Padma has a daughter with her former partner, venture capitalist Adam Dell. Adam is the brother of businessperson Michael Dell, of Dell Technologies.

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  1. poppy says:

    Padma is South Indian Tamil.Tamil are Dravidians.
    These are a caucasian peoples of a med mix.
    The North Indians are usually of Scythian/Kushan/White Hun mix….all central asian and caucasian.indo European by birthright.
    No mixing with the west.The Europeans themselves came from Central Asia hence the racial link.India has white,olive and dark people.
    Padma is not mixed race.she is Tamil and south Indian.

  2. Michaela says:

    I don’t really like her hairstyle in this picture – makes her look a little weird but she looked pretty in “Mistress of Spices”. She’s got a nice figure.

  3. lana says:

    She is beautiful. Indian women really are some of the most beautiful in the world.

  4. Karlos says:

    Im thinking maybe she really is puerto rican?

    And if that was true, would it matter to you?

    I mean if your an ethinic person you shouldnt be easly offened.

    But these days people get upset at the drop of a hat.

  5. Vittoria says:

    She’s so gorgeous, she looks like a tan goddess. Indian women can be so stunningly beautiful.

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