Gorgeous Padma Lakshmi Gets Personal with PageSix

Padma Lakshmi, internationally famous cookbook author, actress, television personality and occasional model, is due to give birth in 2010, having just recently confirmed her pregnancy. While she still won’t reveal the father’s identity, the 39-year-old star is doing all she can to use her pregnancy as a way of attracting attention to the fact that health must always come first.

In an interview with PageSix, which comes accompanied by a stunning photospread of the star, which also sees her wearing nothing much aside from her jewels and her trademark smile, Padma says age has taught her to go easy on her body. She knows that, in her late 30s, she can’t actually expect to have the same body she had many years ago and this is also why she’s taking it easier now that she’s pregnant. This also means accepting that she will gain weight, she says.

“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 feeling tired, and I have this business to run. You hope that with age, what you pay for in gravity, you gain in gravitas. I’m sure my thighs looked better when I was 25, but I think my mind is better today,” she says.

The rest of the time though, meaning before she became pregnant, Padma makes sure she doesn’t gain too much weight by keeping her eye on her health and working out, and not by limiting her food intake to the maximum. Given that she’s the host of a cooking show, it would be hard to live on salads alone either way. “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,” the star explains.

For more on the Padma Lakshmi interview, as well as for the aforementioned photospread, please refer here.