Padma Lakshmi: I've Gained Weight Quickly

Six-month-pregnant Padma Lakshmi covers Page Six Magazine, out Thursday. She is pictured wearing little more than jewelry and gold gladiator sandals and inside talks about her new curves.

"One of the reasons I think I've gained weight pretty quickly during my pregnancy is that I'm not exercising as much as I do normally, I can't. I'm feeling tired," she said. "You hope that with age, what you pay for in gravity, you gain in gravitas. I'm sure my thighs looked better when I was 25, but I think my mind is better today."

Padma has yet to say who the father of her unborn child is, but she tells the magazine she's still picking up the pieces after her 2007 split from Salman Rushdie.

"I [have been] reconstructing my life and putting it back together in a way that looked more appropriate to who I was," she said.

Padma talked about her basketball-sized uterus and wore a miniskirt and thigh high boots on Fallon last week.

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Comments

[mikebarden]

05:57 PM on 12/06/2009

I was looking for that guy advertising that new Late Night show.

[Puller58]

12:01 PM on 12/06/2009

Thanks for sharing, I think.

[DeniseD]

02:52 PM on 12/03/2009

Don't worry, Padma. It only took me a week and a half to lose my baby weight. The trick is nursing!

[bluejoni2525]

08:49 PM on 12/02/2009

Love Padma and I love Top Chef.

[poobah]

05:16 PM on 12/02/2009

She would still be sexy, gorgeous, and desireable if she were as big as the side of a barn.

[ifitwereme]

04:34 PM on 12/02/2009

I'm kinda hoping tiger is the father. would make up for the ska an key broads in the news now.

[texastrixie]

03:05 PM on 12/02/2009

First time the woman has eaten anything in her entire life.

[needintell]

02:47 PM on 12/02/2009

I'd hit it.

[jdrourke]

02:38 PM on 12/02/2009

The woman could be huge and she'd still look like a goddess!!! Just the way we mere mortals like em...

http://jdrourke.wordpress.com/

[clemenj98]

02:21 PM on 12/02/2009

You're pregnant! You're supposed to gain weight and feel tired! Sheesh!

Oh, and you're not supposed to look like that!

(Yeah, that's jealousy... i'm almost 6 mos along and wish i looked half that good!)

[OceanFive]

02:16 PM on 12/02/2009

I'm not kicking her out of bed for eating crackers

[Pimpinnati]

12:38 PM on 12/02/2009

mmmm...Padma ...

[foxisms]

12:24 PM on 12/02/2009

Keep us posted Padme...or not.

[FDRbyGodDemocrat]

11:33 AM on 12/02/2009

You know, I could have survived the next 30 years without hearing the term "basketball-sized uterus."

[nvmac]

12:02 PM on 12/02/2009

Indeed!

[liberalbug]

08:23 PM on 12/02/2009

Then you probably don't want to look up the lyrics to 90's thrash band SOD's "Premenstrual Princess Blues"

[flymic]

09:39 AM on 12/02/2009

Ok ... lets get this over with. who's calling Maurry.

[liberalbug]

10:37 AM on 12/02/2009

I'll confess--I'm the Daddy!!!!!

[firelord5000]

11:08 AM on 12/02/2009

Liar, its me!