"You don't want your jewelry to make you look fat. A lot of what's out there now does - you just wind up looking like a Christmas tree."
-Padma Lakshmi
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"In truth, I am a single mother. But I don't feel alone at all in parenting my daughter. Krishna has a whole other side of her family who loves her, too. And so Krishna is parented by me, but also by her grandmother and aunts and cousins and uncles and friends.“
-Padma Lakshmi
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