Padma Lakshmi
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Padma Lakshmi (pronounced ; born Padma Parvati Lakshmi Vaidynathan; September 1, 1970) is an American author, actress, model, television host and executive producer of Indian descent. Her debut cookbook Easy Exotic won her the "Best First Book" award at the 1999 Gourmand World Cookbook Awards. She has been the host of the US reality television program Top Chef since season two in 2006, for which she received a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Host for a Reality or Reality-Competition Program. In 2010, Top Chef won the Emmy Award for Outstanding Reality-Competition Program. Her debut memoir Love, Loss and What We Ate was released on International Women's Day, March 8, 2016.

Padma Parvati Lakshmi Vaidynathan was born in Madras (now Chennai), India. Her father was an executive with the pharmaceutical company Pfizer. Her mother, Vijaya, is a retired nurse who specialized in oncology. Her parents divorced when she was two years old, and both parents later remarried. Lakshmi is her mother's only child, but she has a younger paternal half-brother and half-sister. Her half-sister has worked as an actress and classical dancer but is now pursuing a career working with children with special needs. In an interview in The Guardian, Lakshmi said, "My father had quit his job as an executive at Pfizer to manage her career. That was kind of like rubbing salt in the wound. I didn't understand why he wanted that relationship with her, and not with me."