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Pregnant Padma Lakshmi poses naked for magazine

LOS ANGELES: India-born model Padma Lakshmi 39,who is six-months pregnant,bared it all for a photo spread to be featured in the latest issue of a magazine. The Top Chef presenter is seen sitting and bending both of her knees to cover the front part of her body while offering a look to the lens on the cover of Page Six Magazine,Aceshowbiz reported. I like me better naked, Padma tells the magazine. In a photo featured inside the magazine,Padma is also seen impersonating Hannah Montana star Miley Cyruss notorious pose for Vanity Fair.

Biden: Salahis part of Washington social fabric

WASHINGTON: US Vice-President Joseph Biden assumed that the White House gatecrasher couple who approached him for a picture last week,were part of Washingtons social fabric. Biden said on Wednesday he did not know the couple till he saw them on TV and they acted as if they knew everyone in the room. I remember them coming up to me then. I just assumed,like everyone else,that they were guests8230; They acted like they were you know,they were they knew everyone in the room, Biden told the NBC Today.