She really turns me on

I've been enamoured with Padma Laksmi for a while now. I read articles about her and gaze lustfully at her gorgeous photos in magazines and web articles.

I think I know why I'm so curious about this mystical Indian goddess. I always wonder, why Salman Rushdie? Why? I pore over every interview, looking for clues in the subtext...but deep down, I know. We all know. It was love, Watson. It was love.

Here are some juicy excerpts from past interviews:

While she has always been ambitious, she is more determined than ever to succeed as more than just the wife and inspiration of a famous man. “Being married to a giant cultural figure like Salman Rushdie, I want to earn my seat at the table,” she says. “After all, I was a published author before I met Salman. In fact, it was my publisher who introduced us.”
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"There's nothing useful about being married to him, though," she continues. "I think it works against me." Surely it must have benefits? "I do have it easy in that I can take business class instead of coach [economy], but I would have that if I was married to anybody."
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“I went to India one summer and I came back with boobs. I don’t know what happened. I went to the boob ration line.” Padma laughed. “Where is it written that a smart woman can’t also be stacked?” she once asked in a column for Harper’s Bazaar entitled “Do You Dress for Men?” “My agenda,” she wrote, “arouse from a distance the object of my longing.”
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Photos courtesy of http://www.padmalakshmi.com