Padma Lakshmi Says It’s ‘Sweeter’ To Be Featured In Sports Illustrated’s Swimsuit Edition In Her 50s
etcanada.comPadma Lakshmi is among the models in the 2023 edition of Sports Illustrated‘s annual Swimsuit Edition. For the 52-year-old “Top Chef” host, modelling skimpy bikinis alongside models half her age isn’t something she had on her 2023 Bingo card. “I really thought that the Sports Illustrated ship had sailed for me, or the possibility of it, and I’d never done it before,” she told the magazine., admitting the experience was “sweeter” now than it would have been when she was in her 20s. READ MORE: Lauren Chan On Being Sports Illustrated’s First-Ever Plus-Size Queer Swimsuit Rookie: ‘I’m So Happy To Be Here’ “But I have never felt better about myself.
My thighs may have been leaner, and my boobs were probably slightly higher in earlier parts of my life, but I wouldn’t go back to my 20s if you paid me all the money in the world,” she added. “I love where I am in my life, and no, my body’s not perfect by any means, but I don’t care.
I feel like I have a very lucky, fruitful, productive life, and I hope that’s what [people] see when they see these pictures,” she explained. READ MORE: Kim Kardashian Says It’s ‘Crazy’ That She’s On The Cover Of Sports Illustrated’s Swimsuit Issue In Her 40s “Of course it’s a visual image, but the reason that I hopefully move better in my body, the reason that I look beautiful now at this age especially, is not because of my skin — it’s because of what’s inside my skin,” Lakshmi declared. “It’s because of my experiences, my learning and just being out in the world.
People are more interesting as they become who they’re going to be as they age. I feel more beautiful now than I did when I was a model in my 20s.
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