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This is an archive article published on April 15, 2011
Padma finds it tough being a woman of colour
The supermodel said she had to struggle a lot because she was an immigrant and a woman of colour.
Supermodel,popular TV host,Emmy award nominee,these are few of Padma Lakshmi’s achievements but the India born beauty says that her way up was tough being a woman of colour and an immigrant.
The ‘Top Chef’ who moved to the US while still a teenager said that she has worked hard her for all that she has today,reported New York Daily News online. “I have been working hard all my life ever since I got out of college to build a career with my own hands and own mind. Being an immigrant in the country,being a woman of color,it’s an effort,” said Lakshmi who has been a resident of New York for the past two decades.
But the 41-year-old said that her ethnicity is not the core of her life. “I don’t get up in the morning thinking,’I’m an Indian’ or ‘I’m a woman’ or ‘I’m a person of color’. I get up thinking,’Alright,what can I do to accomplish what I find interesting in the world?’ I never start from a place of my ethnicity or my gender,I start from a place of ambition and just curiosity about the world,” she said.
The model-actress said that her personal life has often unjustly overshadowed her professional work.
Lakshmi’s marriage and divorce from Booker prize winner Salman Rushdie,her ongoing custody battle with her 1-year-old daughter Krishna’s father and her relationship with billionaire Ted Forstmann,has made her life tabloid fodder. “First of all,a lot of what you read is just plain untrue,and then a lot of it is really personal so I can’t even defend myself,” said the model.
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