Padma Lakshmi Covers Page Six Magazine

Padma Lakshmi graces the cover of Page Six magazine (full interview online Thursday) and talks about her new business ventures, being pregnant and while she’ll never just be a one-cucumber-a-day kind of a girl.

“You can eat and work out, or you can be the person who only eats a cucumber every day. I’d get really irritable if all I ate was a cucumber, so I have to work hard…One of the reasons I think I’ve gained weight pretty quickly during my pregnancy is that I’m not exercising as much as I do normally…I can’t. I’m sure my thighs looked better when I was 25, but I think my mind is better today.”

And these new business ventures?

“I [have been] reconstructing my life and putting it back together in a way that looked more appropriate to who I was. At this point in my career, I’m still growing. Jewels, spices and teas—I sound like Magellan.”

Written by: Melissa Noble

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