{"id":14424,"date":"2012-11-15T01:11:11","date_gmt":"2012-11-15T01:11:11","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-11-15T01:11:10","modified_gmt":"2012-11-15T01:11:10","slug":"Padma-Lakshmi-in-Playboy-","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/?p=14424","title":{"rendered":"Padma Lakshmi in &#8216;Playboy&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Padma Lakshmi gives a great interview in Playboy magazine. She is sooo confident! Love her answers!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>On when guys make passes at her:<\/strong> &#8220;A lot of men get frustrated with me, actually because I am like a guy. Honestly, I&#8217;m like a truck driver trapped in this body. I don&#8217;t want to be your best friend. I don&#8217;t expect you to give me a birthday card or send me flowers. I don&#8217;t need fancy trips. You could take me across the street. Don&#8217;t get me wrong. That stuff&#8217;s nice, but I am a physical and sensual person. I love to be held. I love massages. I&#8217;m just not a Hallmark kind of gal.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>On the type of man she&#8217;s interested in:<\/strong> &#8220;I want someone who&#8217;s a challenging adversary, who can tease me and get away with it, who can flirt and make me think and laugh and blush. But there&#8217;s an art to that. You either have it or you don&#8217;t.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>On what makes for good sex:<\/strong> &#8220;Sex is good when the attraction is good. It&#8217;s not a technical skill. If my mind is engaged, my body will follow.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>On her three-year marriage to Salman Rushdie:<\/strong> &#8220;Now there is somebody who has great wit and is a great flirt. I don&#8217;t regret a day I spent with Salman, but it was tiring. He has a big life, and it only got bigger while we were together. I&#8217;m happy to have stood next to him holding his hand, but we were in very different parts of our lives.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>On the scar on her arm she has as a result of a car accident at age 14:<\/strong> &#8220;It&#8217;s a mark of survival, and I definitely think it made me who I am. Beautiful girls are a dime a dozen, and everybody wants to work with a photographer like Helmut [Newton]. It was the scar that made him notice me. He loved my scar, and by extension he made me think differently about myself. All of a sudden it was something to celebrate or at least not to be ashamed of.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>On beauty being boring:<\/strong> &#8220;Have you ever met a girl and she&#8217;s really pretty, but then you talk to her for 15 minutes, and she&#8217;s not that pretty anymore? She&#8217;s kind of boring. Or else you meet a girl who&#8217;s okay-looking but makes you laugh and says something saucy. Suddenly her beauty shines through.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>On having to wear three sports bras:<\/strong> &#8220;A regular bra doesn&#8217;t work alone, and sometimes I need more support, so I&#8217;ll put a sports bra over it. And I like to wear a runner&#8217;s tank top over that. It&#8217;s my cross to bear, I guess. Sometimes I think I&#8217;m one of the last women with real boobs.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>On the dish every man should know how to cook:<\/strong> &#8220;A beautiful roast chicken.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>On other TV food personalities:<\/strong> &#8220;TV food personalities aren&#8217;t interesting to me. Bobby Flay, I&#8217;m sure, is a great guy, but I don&#8217;t watch Iron Chef. I don&#8217;t even watch Top Chef, to be honest.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.playboy.com\">www.playboy.com<\/a><\/em><br \/>\n<!--break--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Padma Lakshmi gives a great interview in Playboy magazine. 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