Padma Lakshmi Says She Eats 8,000 to 9,000 Calories a Day on 'Top Chef'

Padma Lakshmi is encouraging young women to ease their self-criticism, telling ET that she regrets how hard she was on herself in her 20s. «My biggest beauty regret is that I didn't appreciate myself when I was in my 20s,» Lakshmi said at the Swimsuit Party on Thursday. «I was so hard on myself and I think a lot of us women are.» Lakshmi added that she would tell her younger self to «enjoy your body.» «It is not perfect and it will never be and that's OK,» she continues.

Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue cover, and it’s resulted in some potential love interests.Ever since she landed the gig, Stewart has “gotten a few inquiries. Just a couple,” she told Entertainment Tonight at Sports Illustrated’s party in NYC on Thursday, attended by the likes of Megan Fox, Machine Gun Kelly and Kim Petras.But the 81-year-old is “still working really hard,” and a new relationship isn’t her top priority at the moment.“You have to make time for certain things.

taking it all, or mostly all, off as a cover girl for Sports Illustrated’s new sexy annual swimsuit issue.Like Norma Desmond, played by Gloria Swanson in the film Sunset Boulevard, Martha, 81, loves being on camera, looks spectacular, and probably believes as Desmond did, “The stars are ageless, aren’t they.” She calls being a sex symbol “fantastic.”But Martha’s decision to pose where once young bikini-clad beauties like Kate Upton, Tyra Banks and Christie Brinkley graced SI’s cover should not come as a surprise to Martha insiders.Long before the public ever heard of her, Martha was considered a very hot and desirable lady — holding sex-themed parties in her Westport estate, Turkey Hill, that would not have been appropriate for inclusion in her first big book that made her a star, “Entertaining.”Those parties, involving a very small select group of couples and singles shocked some of Martha’s close friends who were invited to her sexy get-togethers for the first time.They were also usually held when her attorney husband and later New York publisher, Andy Stewart, was out of town.“My husband was sort of horrified at the behavior he saw going on,” recalled Martha’s close friend, NormaCollier, a former model and Martha’s catering business partner for a time. “Martha, for instance, was on [another man’s] lap.

“The View,” co-host Joy Behar revealed some juicy information about the star – including how she goes to the bathroom while wearing a bathing suit.Behar, 80, started off by applauding Stewart, 81, for her hard work in preparing to “meet the challenge” — and beating stereotypes about aging — but then launched right into a story about an encounter she once had with the lifestyle mogul. “One time I met her and I said to her, ‘Martha, what do you wear as a brassiere?’ Because my generation says, ‘brassiere,’ by the way,” Behar said.

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Megan Fox is getting deep and candid as a cover model.The actress sat down for an interview with the publication, as one of this year's select cover models, and opened up about her life, her childhood and her own struggles with self-acceptance and body image issues.«I have body dysmorphia. I don't ever see myself really the way other people see me,» The 37-year-old star shared in the sprawling video interview, posted on Monday.

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was just revealed as one of four cover girls of alongside Megan Fox, Kim Petras, and Brooks Nader. Stewart makes history as the oldest cover star of SI Swim.

When Padma Lakshmi was told she would appear in the 2023 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit issue, she immediately got to work. "Luckily, I was trying to lose the weight from ‘Top Chef,’ so I was in the gym a lot," the culinary star told Page Six on Sunday. "But I only had three weeks’ notice," the 52-year-old revealed.

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Olivia Ponton has something on her mind, she does not keep it to herself. She says it then blasts it on TikTok or Instagram for her 11 million followers.“It’s not easy,” the 20-year-old Sports Illustrated model told The Post on a recent spring day ahead of Coachella.

Culinary super tastemaker Padma Lakshmi is once again in the running for Emmys, both for Bravo’s Top Chef and her Hulu series Taste the Nation. Over her years of hosting and executive producing Top Chef, she has earned 14 Emmy nominations herself, but victory has remained, tantalizingly, just beyond her reach.

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Padma Lakshmi is serving some sizzling looks. The "Top Chef" and "Taste the Nation" host is making a splash in this year’s Sports Illustrated Swimsuit issue.The culinary star, who was photographed by Yu Tsai in Dominica, rocked an itsy bitsy bikini by Toxic Sadie beaded with golden mother-of-pearl sequins.  For the spread, Lakshmi also modeled a two-piece made of seashells, a suit that resembles seaweed and a sunshine yellow bikini. Lakshmi, who got her start as a model in the ‘90s, revealed that it’s empowering to appear in the magazine at age 52.

Padma Lakshmi is among the models in the 2023 edition of Sports Illustrated‘s annual Swimsuit Edition.

Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue model! The 52-year-old made her debut in this year’s body-baring summer edition and she admitted on a recent episode of “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” that she started “freaking out” when she got the “holy grail” of modeling jobs. The late-night talk show host, 55, presented a photo of Lakshmi from her photoshoot where she sported a yellow bikini.Kimmel then asked her if it was “meaningful” to be in the sports magazine’s annual swimsuit printing.“Yeah, it’s definitely meaningful,” the “Easy Exotic” writer said.

Shalini Dore Features News Editor As the second season of Hulu’s “Taste the Nation” starts streaming May 5, executive producer and host Padma Lakshmi again takes viewers among the immigrant communities in the U.S. via their taste buds. Lakshmi spoke with Variety for AAPI Month ahead of the show’s season premiere. She says she and her team get lots of invitations from around the country asking them to visit and highlight the communities. This season they visit Puerto Rico, the Appalachians, the Afghan community in Washington, D.C., as well as Filipinos in the Bay Area. “We don’t just go into a community, visit them and we’re out and then rinse and repeat in the next town,” she says. “We’re looking at the larger issue of immigration in the country that is so integral to the foundation of our modern republic but also through the ever-evolving thing that is America. Immigration is so uniquely important to this country out of all the countries in the world and it’s what has made it its superpower.”

Padma Lakshmi is sick of the criticism of her kitchenware! And by that we mean what she’s wearing in the kitchen!

Padma Lakshmi has a word for people who criticize her body online. On Wednesday night, Lakshmi, 52, attended the Time 100 Gala where she spoke about her anatomy on the red carpet. "I have boobs, I have nipples!" Lakshmi told Page Six.