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" I am a sufferer of endometriosis. I didn't want any young women to go through what I went through. I thought that people should know about it. "
Padma Lakshmi
Know
People
Thought
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" I really like to sometimes go into food detox and eat very simply. "
Padma Lakshmi
Eat
Like
Food
" From the simple stringing together of lemon garlands for the goddess Durga, to dividing the prasadam or blessed foods for the children first, I came to associate food not only with feminity, but also with purity and divinity. "
Padma Lakshmi
Goddess
Simple
Food
" I know most people use their phones to tell time, but there's something very romantic and beautiful about a timepiece. "
Padma Lakshmi
Know
People
Romantic
" I'm the kind of girl who thinks about what she's gonna cook for dinner when she's finishing her lunch. "
Padma Lakshmi
Lunch
Her
She
" I was lucky to have a successful career as a model, but that was just a way to pay off my college loans. "
Padma Lakshmi
Successful
Way
Lucky
" You don't need expensive classes and all kinds of weird equipment if you really want to be in shape. There are great ways to do it that are very economical, it just takes a time commitment, even if it means waking up a half hour a day before the rest of the household gets up because that's the only time you have. "
Padma Lakshmi
You
Commitment
Day
" I never Tweet about my daughter. Never. I just want to be respectful of her privacy. My job as a mom is to know when to open my mouth and when not to. "
Padma Lakshmi
Know
Mouth
Privacy
" Where is it written that a smart woman can't also be stacked? "
Padma Lakshmi
Woman
Smart
Stacked
" One thing that happens when you're pregnant is that as your stomach starts to stretch. It itches! So I have to keep my belly really lubricated. Every morning, there's a buttering ceremony after I get out of the shower. It's really like basting a turkey with body butter. "
Padma Lakshmi
Keep
Like
Body
" People always comment about my clothes. They don't think a fashionable woman can love food and be knowledgeable and actually cook. "
Padma Lakshmi
Think
Food
Always
" My first taste memory is pickle. Even as a kid, I was really weird. I liked chillis. I used to climb up the shelves in my grandmother's pantry. The pickle jar was kept right at the top. One time, I dropped the jar and it broke. I was totally busted. "
Padma Lakshmi
Weird
Grandmother
Climb
" For a long time, I didn't know what I wanted to be when I grew up. I was desperate to find something that fit me and I just decided that if I could organically make a professional living out of the things that interested me, then I would be a happy person. "
Padma Lakshmi
Me
Long
Happy
" It doesn't matter how precisely the onion is cut as long as the person chewing it is happy. "
Padma Lakshmi
Onion
Matter
Long
" I am as omnivorous as it's possible to be. I always say there's nothing I won't eat and nothing I won't wear. "
Padma Lakshmi
Nothing
Possible
Am
" The best thing you can do for someone is make them a beautiful plate of food. How else can you invade someone's body without actually touching them? "
Padma Lakshmi
Beautiful
Body
Best
" I work out all the time! I don't just sit around and eat burgers whenever I want. Oh, if I could I probably would, but I don't. "
Padma Lakshmi
Eat
Work
Sit
" I've always had a fantasy to write a cookbook, because everyone wants to know what a model eats. "
Padma Lakshmi
Always
Fantasy
Know
" I usually doze off between 7:30 and 9 p.m. while putting my baby to sleep. Then I suddenly wake up remembering I'm an adult with no bedtime. I spend the next four hours catching up on reading, e-mails, and other adult pursuits until I collapse for good until sunrise. "
Padma Lakshmi
Sleep
Baby
Sunrise
" I'm not tough. I'm tenacious. "
Padma Lakshmi
Tough
Tenacious
" I grew up a vegetarian. Then, because I grew up in the states, I started slowly eating meat. First it was bologna sandwiches, or pepperoni on pizza. "
Padma Lakshmi
Eating
Vegetarian
Started
" Jewelry should not upstage you. I pick one hot point on my body that I'm going to highlight. Let one area do the singing - you don't want to hear three songs at once. "
Padma Lakshmi
Jewelry
Hot
Singing
" I love to use a lot of spices when I cook, so we actually cast a real peppercorn in gold and then just made a bead out of it for necklaces and earrings. "
Padma Lakshmi
Love
Cook
Real
" Part of my job as a food writer is to describe food. So my work on 'Top Chef,' I feel, is an extension of that. When we give a criticism to the contestant, we want to make sure we tell them why it's not working and why it would work if they did it a different way. "
Padma Lakshmi
Food
Job
Work
" People are thrown off by someone who looks feminine, but is also strong. It's not that pretty girls aren't smart, it's that women aren't strong. "
Padma Lakshmi
Smart
Someone
Strong
" I like me better naked. I don't mean that in a vain way... When you put clothes on, you immediately put a character on. Clothes are adjectives, they are indicators. When you don't have any clothes on, it's just you, raw, and you can't hide. "
Padma Lakshmi
Character
Me
Better
" During the course of filming 'Top Chef,' I gain 15 lbs., so I'm used to needing two dress sizes. "
Padma Lakshmi
Top
Two
Used
" I wasn't like those girls who give birth and are back on the runway. It took me probably six months to gain 45 pounds and I would say it took me double that time to lose it. "
Padma Lakshmi
Birth
Lose
Back
" I think wine is such a big universe that it's kind of like food - it's intimidating to a lot of people, myself included. "
Padma Lakshmi
Think
People
Food
" I don't have any stigma attached to my body. When I'm in my own private space, I have very little on. "
Padma Lakshmi
Little
My Own
Own
" Every city has a Donald Trump; ours is just the Trumpiest. "
Padma Lakshmi
Just
Trump
Every