
Host of "Top Chef," Padma Lakshmi, has Chicago all excited with the latest season of the show taking place in the Windy City, which has three local chefs competing on the show. I've read some weird stuff about this chick--how she has admitted to having a bit of a daddy complex and enjoying the attention from the older mens, and how she supposedly got pissy in a restaurant with the wait staff--but nothing concerns me more than that strange, clearly-altered nose of hers. Don't get me wrong, she's a beautiful woman, but something's just off--like part of her face is missing.
Here she is, enjoying a dinner out at the Waverly Inn in New York City. Hopefully, the staff is aware of her rigid dietary restrictions.
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Photos: PacificCoastNewsOnline.com
More photos of Padma Lakshmi leaving the Waverly Inn in New York City after the jump.
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yvette says:
i think she looks like a praying mantis and that new nose job isn't doing her any favors either.
ella says:
She's pretty, but she looks so... WEIRD. And yeah, it looks like someone took a spoon to her nose and scooped out about half of it.
anonymous says:
I always wonder why everyone says she is so beautiful.
Lana says:
So is this a new nose job or is it from when she was in that really bad car accident where she also got her arm scar from?
yvette says:
she had to have a nose job somewhat recently because it didn't look that way in the last top chef series. it's not a result of the accident she was in many years ago.
Zelda F. says:
Forget about Padma. I've been all over the world and I can tell you, CHICAGO is just about the best place in the world for food!!! Won't miss that show. No place quite like Chi town!!! Hooray for the midwest!!! (from a west coast gal)
Terri says:
I can't stand watching her or listening to her! That nose job OMG! It looks like it went into a pencil sharpener...she sounds like she is talking through her nose she is SO nasal...plus I feel like I can hear her false teeth clicking...all that and a boob job too. She says that her scar served as branding for her modeling career. But I wonder with all that work, what she looked like before. How successful was her modeling career before she was with moneybags Rushdie funding her surgery addiction????
Jack says:
I dont care, she has a hot body and I'd love to lick her belly then go down on her till she
screams a wild orgasm.