Why Weight Gain Is Nothing New For Pregnant Padma Laksmi
How is Top Chef host Padma Lakshmi dealing with her pregnancy weight gain? She’s taking it with a grain of salt. After all, Padma is used to packing on a few pounds over the course of each season’s show. Only this time, it’ll be a lot more!
“During the course of filming Top Chef, I gain 15 lbs., so I’m used to needing two dress sizes. Now I’ll just need three: my fat size, my skinny size and my super size,” she tells People magazine.
What’s her pregnancy diet?
“I am as omnivorous as it’s possible to be. I always say there’s nothing I won’t eat and nothing I won’t wear. Am I gonna be having a Scotch on the rocks? No. But I never did that anyway.”
Padma’s also spreading the word about the effects of endometriosis, a condition from which she suffers. Endometriosis involves tissue that’s similar to uterine lining growing elsewhere in the body. It can lead to infertility, pain and bleeding. Padma has had multiple surgeries as a result of the condition and doctors have called her pregnancy a ‘miracle.’
She’s the co-founder of the Endometriosis Foundation of America.
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