Padma Lakshmi’s billionaire boyfriend dead at 71
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Padma
Lakshmi
welcomes a baby
girl (but the father’s
identity remains
a secret
by Daily Mail Reporter
____February 22nd, 2010
DAILYMAIL.CO.UK
Padma Lakshmi welcomes a baby girl
Padma Lakshmi has become
a mother for the first time after
giving birth to a baby girl.
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Lakshmi,
39,
welcomed her daughter in
New York on Saturday and
her spokesperson said mother
and baby are both
‘well and happy.’
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She called the child
Krishna Thea Lakshmi after
promising early in her pregnancy
to give the child a
‘classically Indian Sanskrit name.’
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The former wife of
author Salman Rushdie,
who now hosts the popular
American TV show Top Chef,
has not revealed the identity
of the father of her child.
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Her pregnancy,
which she announced at
the beginning of October,
was described by her doctor
as ‘nothing short of
a medical miracle’,
after she struggled for years
with endometriosis.
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Just prior to the birth,
a friend told America’s
People magazine:
‘She’s wanted to be a
mom for a long time.
She was very relieved
and happy when s
he got pregnant.’
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Lakshmi married Rushdie,
who dedicated his novel
Fury to her,
in 2004 but they divorced
three years later.
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She has not said if the baby’s
father will stay a secret,
with her spokesman describing
it as a ‘private matter’.
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But reports in New York
have hinted it may be Adam Dell,
the younger brother of the founder
of the Dell computer empire.
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She was first seen with Dell,40,
about two years ago at the South
Beach Wine & Food Festival in
Miami while she was seeing
Teddy Forstmann,
the owner of the
IMG talent agency.
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They were later spotted
together with Elton John
and Elizabeth Hurley at
Evelyn Lauder’s party for
breast cancer research.
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Dell is a venture capitalist
who teaches at Columbia
Business School in New York city.
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Lakshmi,
who began her career
at the age of 16,
married Rushdie in 2007
after a five year courtship.
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