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  • Padma Lakshmi Opens Up About Daughter’s Father, Divorce From Salman Rushdie

    Top Chef host Padma Lakshmi has revealed that there was a time when she didn’t know the identity of her daughter’s father.

    In an interview with the Today show, Lakshmi, 45, opened up about her new memoir, Love, Loss and What We Ate, which details secrets about her 2007 divorce from Salman Rushdie and the paternity of her little girl, 6-year-old Krishna.

    Lakshmi spoke frankly with Lauer about her decision to date two guys after the end of her marriage to Rushdie.

    “It probably wasn’t the best choice, but it was the choice that I made at the time,” she told Lauer. “I didn’t want to be in a serious relationship. I was still really hurting from my divorce. I probably shouldn’t have been with anybody and just taken the time I needed for myself. But I was presented with two very different, very interesting men. Men do it all the time. I chose to do it, and I was open with the men involved. I’m going to own my history.”

    In her memoir, Lakshmi details late billionaire Teddy Forstmann’s reaction to discovering that he was not the father of little Krishna, who was instead fathered by Adam Dell, the brother of Dell Computer founder Michael Dell.

    People magazine reports that when Lakshmi told Forstmann the truth, his reaction was volatile.

    “I saw his face go white, then beet red,” she wrote in the memoir. “It was as if the room could not contain him, or as if his body could not contain his fury at the information he had just received.”

    Despite the shocking news, Forstmann decided to remain by Lakshmi’s side and even left part of his fortune in his will for baby Krishna when he passed away in November 2011.

    When she wrote the memoir, Lakshmi decided to dedicate it to Forstman.

    “He wasn’t going to leave my side,” Lakshmi writes in the memoir. “Maybe he didn’t know if he could stay in a romantic relationship with me or not. I think neither of us knew what was going to happen, but he was resolute in making sure I wasn’t alone. He held my hand and he held it very publicly.”

  • Richard Gere Reportedly Dating Padma Lakshmi

    Richard Gere Reportedly Dating Padma Lakshmi

    Richard Gere has recently begun dating Padma Lakshmi, according to Page Six.

    “They have been quietly spending some time together. It is all very new and recent, and happened while he has been filming in New York,” a source told the publication.

    “It’s the first time Padma has dated anyone since Teddy [Forstmann], and it’s something she’s been approaching very, very delicately. They’re just getting to know each other. They’re just having fun,” a source told Us Weekly.

    Gere, 64, is in the process of divorcing Carey Lowell, a former actress and model whom he married in 2002. They were together for seven years prior to marrying. The two have a 14-year-old son, Homer.

    News of the separation broke in September 2013 and according to sources, Gere and Lowell had “been spending time apart for quite some time.”

    “They have a place in Bedford [NY], and he likes it because it’s quiet and he likes the solitude,” said the source. “She likes being in North Haven in the limelight. They live next door to Jimmy Buffett and his family, and they’re good friends.”

    Gere was married to supermodel Cindy Crawford from 1991 to 1995. Lowell was married twice prior to her marriage to Gere and has a 24-year-old daughter from her second marriage.

    Lakshmi, 43, is known for her role as host of the Emmy Award-winning reality show Top Chef. Besides hosting the show since 2006, Lakshmi has written several cookbooks in addition to stints as a model and actress.

    In 2004 she famously married the well-known and often controversial novelist Salman Rushdie. Like Lakshmi, Rushie was born in India. The two divorced three years later.

    Lakshmi has a three-year-old daughter, Krishna, with ex Adam Dell, brother of computer icon Michael Dell.

    Lakshmi dated billionaire Teddy Forstmann for several years until his death in November 2011 and the two were together when her daughter was born.

    Gere is currently filming Time Out of Mind in New York City. He plays a homeless man who attempts to reconnect with his estranged daughter (Jena Malone.)

    Gere has said he’s been fascinated with the project for years:

    “It is a profoundly human story that we are determined to make into a powerful film that speaks to everyone.”

    Prior to filming Time Out of Mind, Gere was busy with Franny, Henry & Me, and the sequel to The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel.

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