Padma Lakshmi Reveals She Initially Didn’t Know Who Fathered Her Child

Padma Lakshmi sat down with Matt Lauer on Today and discussed her memoir Love, Loss, and What We Ate. In the book, she reveals that when she became pregnant in 2009, she was unsure who the father was. “You know, it probably wasn’t the best choice, but it was the choice I made at the time,” she explained. “I didn’t want to be in a serious relationship. I was still really hurting from my divorce.” Her relationship with Salman Rushdie is also a focal point of the book, an affair that would be upended by the need to focus on her health.

Lakshmi was diagnosed with endometriosis at age 36, a disease that can affect a woman’s fertility. This ended up not being the case with Lakshmi, and despite the ambiguity as to the paternity of her daughter, Krishna, she stands by her decision. “I probably shouldn’t have been with anybody and taken the time I needed for myself,” she told Lauer. “But I was presented with two very different, very interesting men. You know, men do it all the time. I chose to do it. I was open with the men involved, and I’m going to own my history. That’s what I did.”

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