Padma Lakshmi feels very comfortable in her skin
The actress and TV host is doing a collaboration with lingerie company Bare Necessities, and while promoting the line, she has been candid about everything from her body image to her sex life.
“Look, I’m at my sexual peak,” Lakshmi, 53, told Us Weekly. “Let’s just say what it is. I am. And I feel great about that. I don’t care what anybody thinks. I don’t care what my mother thinks, unless she’s very supportive.”
She explained, “I come from a very conservative South Indian family,” and noted that she once “really lived in fear.”
“I was terrified that my grandfather was going to see those Helmut Newton pictures,” she said, referring to an old lingerie shoot by the photographer. “But I am free of all that. I just didn’t meet their expectations at all.”
During another recent interview …