1 year ago
25
Padma Lakshmi Talks Throwing the PERFECT Holiday Party
Padma Lakshmi always turns up the vigor and isn't flippin' retired implicit those who deliberation otherwise.
The Top Chef host precocious clapped backmost aft an online troll made a antagonistic remark astir her body.
"Somebody commented yesterday connected my Instagram that I had abdominous arms," Padma recalled in her May 18 TikTok video arsenic she cooked successful the kitchen, "and should beingness weights."
Another idiosyncratic is heard out of framework asking the world star, "Do you person thing to accidental to them?" to which Padma looks into the camera and clasp up her mediate finger, earlier tending to the cookware of nutrient connected the stove.
The 52-year-old captioned the clip, "#bodypositivity," on with 3 shouting emojis.
Padma's clapback comes after she posed for the 2023 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue, showcasing her toned physique successful a sultry formation photoshoot.
"This is me," the Taste the Nation big captioned a May 3 Instagram video of herself connected set, posing successful the h2o successful a gold, reflective bikini. "I wouldn't spell backmost to my 20s if you paid maine each the wealth successful the world."
During her interrogation with the magazine, Padma explained wherefore it was the close clip successful her beingness to pose for the publication.
"I was a small spot freaked retired due to the fact that I knew that I couldn't get arsenic choky and thin arsenic I could if I had immoderate much time," she told SI Swimsuit. "But past I conscionable looked successful the reflector and I reminded myself, I'm not present due to the fact that I'm the world's top model. I'm present due to the fact that I'm me. I'm not getting this successful my 20s. I'm getting this now, astatine this point, and it's truthful overmuch sweeter due to the fact that I'm doing it now."
TikTok
Padma—who is ma to Krishna Thea Lakshmi-Dell, 13—hopes her photograph sprout tin animate different women to clasp their bodies.
"It's important to amusement women of each ages, assemblage types, [and] tegument colors and amusement that quality is truthful immense and wide of a spectrum," the Tomatoes for Neela writer said on Today May 2. "When young women spot this, I anticipation they spot that they person a agelong beingness to live."
She continued, "And that acquisition and contented and going done worldly really makes you much absorbing and enriches you arsenic a person, some physically but besides inside."
Along with Padma, the 2023 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue besides featured Megan Fox, Martha Stewart and Kim Petras.
For the latest breaking quality updates, click present to download the E! News App
