{"id":6901,"date":"2010-12-11T18:12:33","date_gmt":"2010-12-11T18:12:33","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2025-10-15T00:47:02","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T00:47:02","slug":"is-exotic-beauty-padma-lakshimi-latest-photoshop-victim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/?p=6901","title":{"rendered":"Is exotic beauty Padma Lakshimi latest photoshop victim?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Top Chef host Padma Lakshmi is the latest exotic beauty to get an unwelcome makeover for a magazine cover shoot. This time TV category_ide has overdone it with photoshop, giving her a decidedly lighter skintone.<\/p>\n<p>Lakshmi, 40, is pictured on the cover with co-host Tom Colicchio, promoting their reality TV competition, \u201cTop Chef All Stars,\u201d But her her dark tawny skin looks the same as Colicchio\u2019s, who is white.<\/p>\n<p>Sadly the practice seems widespread.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For its part, TV category_ide heatedly denied whitening Padma\u2019s skin:<\/p>\n<p><\/strong><strong>\u201cIf her skin appears lighter, it\u2019s because we shot her in a brightly lit diner as part of the cover concept,\u201d it said in a statement.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.celebrityhealthfitness.com\/2987\/is-exotic-beauty-padma-lakshmi-latest-photoshop-victim-photos\" title=\"SOURCE\">SOURCE<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/stron\n<!--break--><br \/>\ng><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Top Chef host Padma Lakshmi is the latest exotic beauty to get an unwelcome makeover for a magazine cover shoot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1213,"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":[1005,2110],"tags":[2114],"class_list":["post-6901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-beauty","category-fashion-beauty","tag-beauty"],"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":"Joshua","avatar":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/62ee23f8f40307578d1f284ecd823d77f32da8ea35541e7dbdafeb5da1a4e877?s=96&d=mm&r=g"},"magazineBlocksPostCommentsNumber":"1","magazineBlocksPostExcerpt":"Top Chef host Padma Lakshmi is the latest exotic beauty to get an unwelcome makeover for a magazine cover shoot.","magazineBlocksPostCategories":["Beauty","Fashion &amp; 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