Padma Lakshmi

Lakshmi, who was previously married to Salman Rushdie, has a daughter Krishna Thea Lakshmi-Dell with ex-boyfriend Adam Dell. By Ashlyn Messier | Fox News.

She explained that during the time of finding out about her pregnancy, she was in between relationships. Lakshmi started hosting the show "Top Chef" since 2006. "Imagine a young woman in her twenties, who loves books and who had published her little cookbook and in comes this guy," she told People. "I mean, he was the best thing that ever happened to me by a mile. One of the first cooking shows that she hosted was called "Padma's Passport" where she made food from all around the world. Padma has one daughter, Krishna Thea Lakshmi-Dell who was born in 2010. "It certainly was icky when the press started snooping around in various countries-not just America, but in India, England, Australia," she said on the podcast "Me Becoming a Mom." At the time, it was splashed all over the newspapers and it was mortifying."