Padma Lakshmi rarely opens up about her personal life, so it was

Padma Lakshmi rarely opens up about her personal life, so it was nice to see her on Nightline last night, letting us into her home and business.

“I’ve always been somebody who is happiest when she’s occupied, when her hands are busy, when my mind is active,” Lakshmi said. “For a long time, I didn’t know what I wanted to be when I grew up. I was desperate to find something that fit me and I just decided that if I could organically make a professional living out of the things that interested me, then I would be a happy person.”