Padma Lakshmi Makes a Guest Appearance on Tim Gunn’s Guide to Style

November 30, 2007 at 4:53 am (Famous People named Lakshmi, Television, Uncategorized)

I caught my first episode of Tim Gunn’s Guide to Style today. Padma Lakshmi was a special guest and counseled a young woman whose leg was badly scarred in an accident. Padma herself was scarred in an automobile accident when she was fourteen. A profanity-laced Vanity Fair profile on Padma earlier this month and a 2001 article in Vogue explain how she made her scar her trademark.

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