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Padma Lakshmi Recalls ‘Slut Shaming’ While Her Daughter’s Paternity Was Being Questioned in 2010


In a past interview with PEOPLE, Padma Lakshmi said she was "between relationships" at the time.

In her 2016 memoir, Love, Loss and What We Ate, she shared more details about how she navigated the situation with Dell and the other man she was dating at the time, Teddy Forstmann, with a paternity test. I wasn’t at peace with it for a long time—I felt that the narrative of my life had been stolen from me, because of who I was standing next to,” she told the New Yorker. Padma Lakshmi and Adam Dell.Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty These days, the cookbook author weaves her own narrative in more ways than one — be it through her show Taste the Nation or her more casual social media videos with her daughter.

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