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" 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. "

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" 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'm not attached to things at all. I'm very lucky to have quite a few beautiful things, but if I look back at my life, I was often happiest when I had very little. "

" I love clothes, but really I don't have that much to say about skirts. Before I was writing, I went to fashion shows only when the designer was a good friend and I was there to show support. "

" I tend to sleep in the nude... I'm a sensual-leaning woman. You have to use the word 'leaning' or it sounds like I'm boasting. "

Padma Lakshmi

Sleep

Leaning

" 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

Better

" I love seafood. I'm not a vegetarian but I'm probably a pescetarian. "

" 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. "

" All chefs are like Jewish mothers. They want to feed you and feed you and impress you. It's an eagerness to please. "

" Flowers die and wine gets consumed. Both are lovely. I appreciate both. Wine and roses. I actually had someone bring me a lobe of foie gras once. "

Padma Lakshmi

Roses

Flowers

" If you like a wine that you drink, now with your phone, it's so easy. Just take a picture of the label. You learn about it. You learn where it comes from and what the soil is like and why you like it. And that'll lead you to another wine. "

" I don't have any stigma attached to my body. When I'm in my own private space, I have very little on. "

" 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

" 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

Body

" People always comment about my clothes. They don't think a fashionable woman can love food and be knowledgeable and actually cook. "

" Every country I would go to, even if it was just on a modeling job, I would go to their markets. If I went to Morocco for 'Elle' magazine, I would be in the spice markets during my off time and just come back with a suitcase full of stuff that I really wanted to try. "

" I have great empathy for all the contestants that come on 'Top Chef,' whether they go home right away or they make it to the finish line. It's a very vulnerable position they put themselves in and I feel for them. "

" Whenever I'm in sync with the trends, it's always an accident. I still love wearing clothes I've had for ten years. I think understated luxury is the chicest thing. "

" My mom was scared of the old Times Square so I was never allowed to go. Now I'm scared of the new Times Square, so I still never go. "

" I think eating in itself is the act of great sensuality, so all you have to do is point the camera in the right direction. "

" I was the first Indian model to have a career in Paris, Milan and New York. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" It doesn't matter how precisely the onion is cut as long as the person chewing it is happy. "

" 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. "

" I've always had a fantasy to write a cookbook, because everyone wants to know what a model eats. "

" You don't want your jewelry to make you look fat. A lot of what's out there now does - you just wind up looking like a Christmas tree. "

" Every city has a Donald Trump; ours is just the Trumpiest. "

" I'm an immigrant kid who came to America from India when I was very young and grew up in New York City with a single mom and really was influenced by all of those immigrant cultures bumping up against each other. "