Padma Lakshmi Archives

Gossip Girl actress Blake Lively (in Chloe) attends the Solomon R. Guggenheim Young Collectors Council Artist’s Ball hosted by Chloe at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum on Thursday in New York City.

Blake was joined by Piper Perabo of Coyote Ugly fame and Padma Lakshmi from the Bravo TV show - Top Chef.

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Top Chef host Padma Lakshmi, who’s promoting her new cookbook, Tangy Tart Hot & Sweet, swears like a sailor in her interview in the latest issue of Vanity Fair. Hot dang!

On the Top Chef Emmy nomination: “[It] was a big f-ing deal.”

On life without her ex-husband, Salman Rushdie: “I’m really f-ing sad.”

On her new cookbook: “Finishing the f-ing book was like being in labor for two years!”

On hosting dinner parties: “I pulled this out of my ass.”

On an AIDS charity she supports: “…we’re doing a campaign and an event and you should buy a f-ing table.”

On telling the press if she had a boyfriend: “My husband would call f-ing Reuters.”

On a tabloid’s coverage of her bra size: “…they said it was 36C. I said, 34C, motherf-er!”

On her current living situation: “Now I’m staying in a f-ing hotel with all my s— in storage.”