"You don't want your jewelry to make you look fat. A lot of what's out there now does - you just wind up looking like a Christmas tree."
-Padma Lakshmi
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"My mom was scared of the old Times Square so I was never allowed to go. Now I'm scared of the new Times Square, so I still never go.“
-Padma Lakshmi
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"I know most people use their phones to tell time, but there's something very romantic and beautiful about a timepiece."
-Padma Lakshmi
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"In truth, I am a single mother. But I don't feel alone at all in parenting my daughter. Krishna has a whole other side of her family who loves her, too. And so Krishna is parented by me, but also by her grandmother and aunts and cousins and uncles and friends."
-Padma Lakshmi
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"One thing that happens when you're pregnant is that as your stomach starts to stretch. It itches! So I have to keep my belly really lubricated. Every morning, there's a buttering ceremony after I get out of the shower. It's really like basting a turkey with body butter."
-Padma Lakshmi
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"I never Tweet about my daughter. Never. I just want to be respectful of her privacy. My job as a mom is to know when to open my mouth and when not to."
-Padma Lakshmi
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"I'm an immigrant kid who came to America from India when I was very young and grew up in New York City with a single mom and really was influenced by all of those immigrant cultures bumping up against each other."
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"Whether it's a 16-year old girl, or a mom, or a guy, or anybody, as long as they come up and they're excited to meet me 'cause they've had some sort of relationship with something I've created, it's the coolest thing ever. It never gets old. It's awesome."
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"Our songs touch people, and take them back to a time when there was no threat of terrorism, when you didn't have to lock your doors and when Mom and Dad took care of everything."
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"I was born to a single mom and raised by her and my grandparents."
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"When you have lost people like I lost my birth mom at a young age and you remember the whole process of losing her, you want to grab on to something that makes you whole."
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