Padma Lakshmi Is Back in Top Shape, Hits the Beach to Celebrate

Precisely one year ago, Padma Lakshmi was giving birth to her first child. Today, she’s vacationing in the Bahamas – and she’s rocking a tighter body than she had even before becoming pregnant.

Photos of her on the beach in a two-piece swimsuit have caused a frenzy in the blogosphere – and if you check them out here, at JustJared, you will see precisely why is that.

The Top Chef, who has always been very open about her weight fluctuations, especially when she’s working on the popular television show, put exercising on second place when pregnant.

Eventually, she ended up gaining more weight than she had estimated because she kept eating as before, if not actually more.

All that’s clearly in the past now.

“Padma Lakshmi shows off her amazing bikini bod as she takes a dip in the ocean on Sunday (February 20) in Nassau in the Bahamas,” JustJared writes in a brief post to accompany the pictures.

“The 40-year-old Top Chef host stepped out of the water and debuted a rock hard stomach. Gorgeous!” the e-zine says.

Indeed, Padma is looking better than ever and that’s saying quite a lot given that she’s always been quite a stunner.

On her Twitter, Padma reveals part of her secret to such an enviable figure: she’s taking more care of herself and, while she still indulges in treats, she tries to take out of her diet all those things that are not good for her.

“Sweetened beverages = greatest source of added sugar in the American diet. Drink green or jasmine tea instead!” the Top Chef wrote a few days ago, including a link to the New York Academy of Sciences.

But that’s not to say that Padma is starving herself. In fact, that same day, she tweeted, “Eating fried pigs ear and eggs with my friend Nathan Myhrvold at Animal” and included a photo of her delicious-looking meal.