{"id":5934,"date":"2010-06-21T20:06:54","date_gmt":"2010-06-21T20:06:54","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-06-21T20:06:54","modified_gmt":"2010-06-21T20:06:54","slug":"Padma-lives-and-dies-by-daughter-Krishna-","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/?p=5934","title":{"rendered":"Padma \u2018lives and dies\u2019 by daughter Krishna"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Top Chef host <strong>Padma Lakshmi\u2019s baby daughter Krishna<\/strong> was the missing ingredient in her life and, \u201ceverything is better with her around\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>When asked by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.popeater.com\/2010\/06\/21\/top-chef-padma-lakshmi-interview\/\">Popeater<\/a> about her feelings for her four-month old baby, <strong>Padma<\/strong> says, \u201cI don\u2019t even know how to answer that question because it\u2019s such a primal feeling. It\u2019s so deep and intense.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s the best thing about being a mom? \u201cEverything,\u201d she says. \u201cEverything is better with her around. Anything from the beginning of the day till the end.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The foodie is now gearing up for the latest season of the cooking competition, set in Washington DC, in which Michelle Obama is rumored to be guest-judging.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Padma talks breast-feeding:<\/strong> \u201cI don\u2019t like to pump, I\u2019d rather just nurse. Sometimes I have to, but I\u2019m not into the pumping. It feels very bovine.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As an eligible single woman is Padma, 39, looking for a man? \u201cRight now I\u2019m excited about making my daughter happy. Honestly, I live and die by the tiniest gestures and expressions on her face,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t really have any attention span for anything else than her. Well, I do for my work, but someone was asking me this the other day, if my perspective about work had shifted, and it has.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not that I\u2019m not still interested in being good at my work and that I\u2019m not ambitious, it\u2019s just for different reasons. Now, I want to do it so she\u2019ll be proud of me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>We understand you love your daughter, <strong>but are you dating David Spade or what<\/strong>?<br \/>\n<!--break--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Top Chef host Padma Lakshmi\u2019s baby daughter Krishna was the missing ingredient in her life and, \u201ceverything is better with<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":72448,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"magazineBlocksPostFeaturedMedia":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u-113x150.jpg","medium":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","medium_large":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","large":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","1536x1536":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","2048x2048":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","colormag-highlighted-post":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","colormag-featured-post-medium":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","colormag-featured-post-small":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u-113x90.jpg","colormag-featured-image":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","colormag-default-news":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u-113x150.jpg","colormag-featured-image-large":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","colormag-elementor-block-extra-large-thumbnail":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","colormag-elementor-grid-large-thumbnail":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","colormag-elementor-grid-small-thumbnail":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","colormag-elementor-grid-medium-large-thumbnail":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg"},"magazineBlocksPostAuthor":{"name":"Admin","avatar":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/53e6cdc30765aade0129f85e5aeb50124b1d3f5bb9a70373be31e4eb328371e0?s=96&d=mm&r=g"},"magazineBlocksPostCommentsNumber":"0","magazineBlocksPostExcerpt":"Top Chef host Padma Lakshmi\u2019s baby daughter Krishna was the missing ingredient in her life and, \u201ceverything is better with","magazineBlocksPostCategories":[],"magazineBlocksPostViewCount":131,"magazineBlocksPostReadTime":2,"magazine_blocks_featured_image_url":{"full":["https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg",113,170,false],"medium":["https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg",113,170,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u-113x150.jpg",113,150,true]},"magazine_blocks_author":{"display_name":"Admin","author_link":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/?author=1"},"magazine_blocks_comment":0,"magazine_blocks_author_image":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/53e6cdc30765aade0129f85e5aeb50124b1d3f5bb9a70373be31e4eb328371e0?s=96&d=mm&r=g","magazine_blocks_category":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5934\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/72448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}