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.
Some of these comments are just ridiculous. You guys do realize that Indians come in all shades, right? She looks Indian, not Spanish, Portuguese, or Mexican, etc. Why is it so hard for some of you guys to accept a beautiful Indian woman?
Wow, I didn’t know she was Tamil. Most Tamil people I’ve met were a chocolate complexion.
Still she is a very beautiful woman.
SO INDIAN!!
i agree,she looks mexican
Not Just Mexican she can pass as being Latin American. But i rekn she can also pass as being East Polynesian (Cook Island, Tahiti, Rapanui, Hawaii and Maori)
she does
she looks native american of mexico,look at her hairstyle.
She is Indian.
Just because she does her hair in a certain style doesn’t mean she is Mexican… that’s like saying that she once ate an enchilada, so that means she’s Mexican. What a dumb comment.
Americans….if you look dark and exotic you’re automatically Mexican or a Native. Hilarious…