KXB is one sharp, articulate, distinguished mutineer– which is why I hardly expected to find that HE deposited the hot gossip on our news tab! I love people who defy expectations, especially when they provide us with such apposite summer entertainment while doing so. Yay KXB!
Padma Lakshmi might be dating a billionaire?
Of whom we have never
Whom we have never
One who ain’t famous??
Billionaire Ted Forstmann has trained his gaze on another world-class beauty.
The financier, whose consorts have included Elizabeth Hurley and Princess Diana, has become a fast friend of model, chef and actress Padma Lakshmi.
Their mouthpieces maintain that the two are not dating. But that hasn’t stopped some from noticing that Forstmann has appeared in Lakshmi’s life just as her husband, author Salman Rushdie, is leaving it.
Allegedly, the two are spending time together because IMG (Forstmann’s own!) will be representing her.
As early as this week, we hear, IMG is due to announce a slate of endorsement and licensing projects for Lakshmi. “IMG is global, and so is Padma’s appeal,” says one insider. “It’s a good marriage.”
Did someone say marriage?
The proof isn’t in the picture!
Lakshmi seemed a little guarded when she and Forstmann arrived together at the Elie Wiesel Foundation tribute to Oprah Winfrey at the Waldorf in May. When a photographer snapped her with Forstmann, Lakshmi asked the photog to delete the image – supposedly because the shot was blurry. She agreed to pose again – but not with Forstmann.
Rushdie suggested in a statement this month that Lakshmi was the one who wanted out of their union – that he “agreed to divorce … because of her desire to end their marriage.”
For those who think some of us are finding this mirchier than we need to:
Though he’s seven years older than Sir Salman, Forstmann seems well fixed to counsel the shapely author of “Tangy, Tart, Hot and Sweet.”
One industry source does find it “a little odd that Teddy is taking such an interest in Padma’s career. It’s not the side of the business he usually focuses on.”
But, perhaps in the case of Lakshmi, he’s more willing to be hands-on.
Ba-dum-bum. 😀
SM Intern,
HMF, I think we should take this offline — I don’t want to clog the thread.
Further off-topic (and boring!) comments may be deleted. Come on, folks. Posts like this are supposed to be lighthearted and fun.
Discussing older women/younger men? Fun.
Oppression Olympics? Not fun.
As for me, I find this discussion interesting. I can always count on HMF to start the reverse-sexism argument. The discussion between Camille and HMF isn’t boring; Anyways I know you are the intern, and maybe I’m in the minority with other SM readers, but just wanted you guys to know that I don’t find their discussion off-topic or boring.
Something to think about:
She was brought up solely by her mom, who divorced her dad or was divorced from her dad (active/passive). My impression is that a dad-figure was MIA for Padma for one reason or another.
So she may (or may not) be looking for something that most peopel take for granted. Guessing. Don’t know her personally.
god bless grls with d*ddy issues…
Am I the only Desi man who is IRATE over this latest imperial conquest? Makes me ill. At least no decent man will now date that tramp.
are you serious?
Am I serious? Man where has your self-respect and pride gone? You better believe I am serious.
I respect myself enough not to be a racist sexist bigot.
Sanjit should try to channel all that testosterone-fueled angest into some activites like a lucrative career, and some gym time…. Then maybe you could have your own prize, yes dear brother?
-Divya
There are some good porn sites that can help people like Sanjit address their issues.
Padmalakshmi should just skip the routine of sleeping with geezers to advance her career. Maybe she should just go the Paris Hilton and Kim Kadarshian route and make a sex tape with some guy and leak it. She does look weird in that one of the pictures with the geezer where her face looks flattened.
they could have a south park style wh0re off while were at it….
😉
She take my money, when I’m in need Yeah she’s a triflin’ Friend indeed Oh she’s a ___________________.
Divya, I’m neither English nor an i-banker, but I like your style. Gives a whole new meaning to that phrase “I’m a barby girl.”
Is daddy a swear w*rd now?
And way to go on the pop psychology, malathi. Pun intended.
i instinctively do that with everything at work by now. im like a trained dog.
Me too. Salil, she’s all yours.
I am not sure…what makes you say that. Anyway, just in case it was not too obvious: my intention was to garner some sympathy for her.
May she find her happiness and peace IF that is what she is looking for.
Camille. Calling Camille. Pravin is saying something ridiculous again and it deserves your un-minced response. Okay, Pravin, I’m joking.
Haha, bess, I just chose to ignore it 🙂
There are plenty of rich, immature pervs too who just behind age and/or money.
I couldn’t agree with you more Divya. Perhaps deep down Padma is the kind of girl Sanjit really wants but knows he can never have.
who just hide behind age and/or money. oops
From a (well one) female perspective, being that women read their sexual peak between mid-30’s to mid-40’s, and men between 17 – 24ish, I am much more comfortable with this type of arrangement than with Padma and old men. She’s 40 something now and should be with a young man for sexual satisfaction. Of course if she’s not after sexual satisfaction but something else, I guess this arrangement would work – for her, not me.
Maybe it is sexism but there is something “gross” about old men with young to almost middle aged women. Middle aged women with young men though is acceptable because not only does it look better, it is more in tune with nature and the mechanics of the human body.
Just my opinion.
How long have you been a middle school teacher?
Or perhaps Sanjit is just a jealous Salman Rushdie being a troll again. He was the breakee, not the breaker, after all.
Personally I think people should do what floats their boat. There is nothing gross about finding the right “fit/match” for you and he/she doesn’t always fall within a prescribed category whether it’s age or body or whatever. There are plenty of young men out there with money and drive that could woo Padma but if she chooses to be with an old man (whether she’s a better version of a Anna Nicole Smith) good for her. The real world doesn’t unfortunately function around the “mechanics” of one’s body but the “mechanics” of one’s paycheck. Hence older men with younger women. Experience brings the potential for more $$$.
To me personally there is something highly unnatural about two people who have a massive age gap, someone a grandparent’s age but then again it’s all a rumor. Who knows what the truth is.
I’m not, but what is that supposed to mean?
Middle school? Jail bait? No. 18 and over? YES.
And more like mid twenties – perfectly legal, perfectly adult, and perfectly delicious.
I’m an attractive and intelligent woman who knows what she wants. The only gripe you might have with that perhaps is that it is not you.
not sure what this is based on but male testosterone production tends to gradually go down after 30…which is a few more years than the opinionated lady has given us.
I think Rajni has proved, without a shadow of a doubt, that brown men peak between the age when Just For Men becomes necessary and the Anthony Quinn, having-kids-while-quite-addled-by-age stage.
Padma is beautiful! I really don’t think she has had work done because she does look like she has aged from when she was 25. I have met her at events and seen her on the street. She wears little makeup and looks beautiful. Additionally, she has full range of emotion/motion in her face – botox paralyzes the facial muscles. If you check out her pics from before and now, it is clear she is aging very slowly yet gracefully. She is hot. Incredible body too. http://celebritytrade.com/gallery.aspx?cid=548 Also, if you check out her cookbook, there are childhood pics of her in which you can tell her nose is exactly the same. I highly doubt that she has had work done.
On a separate note, haven’t you all noticed that most bollywood actresses including Ash and Sushmita have had work done?! Breast implants, collagen in their lips, etc…
In all fairness, Padma was the first Indian beauty to receive international status as a model. She was certainly the first blooded Indian (unlike Saira Mohan and others who are half Indian) to get noticed.
She was certainly the first full-blooded Indian (unlike Saira Mohan and others who are half Indian) to get noticed.
FYI, Padma is Tamil & Malayalee! In her books, she mentions that.
http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.rediff.com/news/1999/jul/06lak2.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.rediff.com/news/1999/jul/06us1.htm&h=350&w=259&sz=13&hl=en&start=8&um=1&tbnid=irVnKLc4NuZvQM:&tbnh=120&tbnw=89&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dpadma%2Blakshmi%26svnum%3D10%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DN
She is stunning….but she’s got such a unique face that it’s not the Aishwarya Rai stunning but something much odder. And I really hope you are right that she didn’t get a nose job….thanks for sharing those pics! she is got the most incredible body. I assure you if I looked like her I’d have no complaints.
haven’t you all noticed that most bollywood actresses including Ash and Sushmita have had work done?! Breast implants, collagen in their lips, etc…
No, I didn’t notice…how do you know? And who got breast implants. I was just looking at a Malika Sherawat pic today and she has such amazing breasts and they look so natural, so I thought she was really blessed with the perfect breasts. I’ll be so disappointed if she got breast implants…but whoever her doctor is, he’s very artful.
Yes, Padme is definitely one of the first, if not the first, Indian supermodel. Model world seems different than bollywood or miss universere beauty. I also love Ujwala Raut. I feel that the indian int’l models are much darker than what you get in bollywood, and well, I like that since I am on the darker side. It’s like, for me, the int’l model scene allows more versions of the Indian beauty…not just the light-skinned beauties.
it is obvious padame or panda bear or whatever her name is attracted to his smarts and intellect. Can’t blame the poor thing if the really smart ones are old and have a lot of money. When will we learn to stop looking at superficial things like age and money and become like Padma who looks at deep things like intellect and smarts.
First, Salman and now Teddy…
Maybe she just likes to date people who used to be relevant in the 1980s
Is this Ted Forstmann stunt Ben Stein’s new quest for relevance? That’s all in this week’s edition of Separated at Birth.
I don’t know about that; this gal (granted I’m no Padma) grew up to the old-fashioned refrain of true pimps spend no dough on the booty .
Therefore, dear nice desi boyz, I hope you will stay humble, stay low, blow like Hootie.
I don’t think she is good-looking either.
And I think Pardesi Gori is back on this thread.
i don’t think it’s her nose – something about her eyes – they’re set back a bit. but while i don’t find her subjectively attracive, i would say objectively she is attractive – she has a fabulous body, nice skin colour, and good bone structure. good breasts, too. she has a very model-type body and look to her.
“I was just looking at a Malika Sherawat pic today and she has such amazing breasts and they look so natural”
I’ll have to respectfully disagree with that. they look so unnatural and obvious to me. as do sushmita sen’s (although she is a gorgeous woman).
on padma lakshmi, she looked really beautiful in the Sharpe series movie (with sean bean) set in India. fantastic body and the best skin. the british make-up lady on the movie set said she was one of the few actresses she’d worked with that she had to apply virtually no make-up to.
Padma has a Daddy Complex that is why she seems to prefer older men. Her father left her and her mother when she was young. She grew up with out a father figure for most of her life.
A lot of women in Bollywood – like a lot of women in Hollywood – have had work done and it is obvious. Check out how flat Sushmita and Ash were when then won there titles in 95 and look at them now. People are so stupid to think that these actresses are perfectly beautiful. They have all aged. They get photoshopped and retouched. It’s funny in one pic an actress will have bright blue eyes, grey eyes in the next, green eyes, hazel eyes, etc. Come on. Rani M is one of the few who seems natural looking. Ash http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://hinessight.blogs.com/hinessight/images/aishwarya_rai2.jpg&imgrefurl=http://hinessight.blogs.com/hinessight/entertainment/index.html&h=150&w=100&sz=7&hl=en&start=69&tbnid=rqEyMpvwUFBUMM:&tbnh=96&tbnw=64&prev=/images%3Fq%3Daishwarya%2Brai,%2Bmiss%2Bworld%2B1995%26start%3D54%26gbv%3D2%26ndsp%3D18%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DN Sushmita
There is something odd and asymmetrical about Padma’s face. Her body is tall and lanky, no booty, no curves, no real figure.
Although she is not “ugly”, I don’t consider her gorgeous at all. Just average. It’s all the glitz, glamour, bling and fancy clothes that add to her beauty and make her appear attractive in photos.
All of you are total fools…I know, personally, its the money…this man is what he is….
I don’t find her all that attractive…looks more European than Indian. Complete coconut.
I’m pretty sure she has a serious case of ‘longing for daddy.’ An article/interview with her focused a lot on how her father left her when she was a very young child and fathered children w/ another women. He never gave her any attention at all and favored the other children to her.