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" I've been a model for 15 years, and I've been on 'Top Chef' for eight seasons, and before that I had other cooking shows, so I've learned a thing or two about how to camouflage certain areas and how to draw the eye to a preferable area of the body. "

Padma Lakshmi

Chef

Body

Cooking

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Possible

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Character

Better

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