Supermodel, popular TV host, Emmy award nominee, these are few of Padma Lakshmi’s achievements but the Indian beauty says that her way up was tough being a woman of colour and an immigrant.
The Top Chef host who moved to the US while still a teenager said that she has worked hard for all that she has today, reported New York Daily News online.
“I have been working hard all my life ever since I got out of college to build a career with my own hands and own mind. Being an immigrant in the country, being a woman of colour, it’s an effort,” said Lakshmi. But she said her ethnicity is not the core of her life.
“I don’t get up in the morning thinking, ‘I’m an Indian’ or ‘I’m a woman’ or ‘I’m a person of colour’. I get up thinking, ‘Alright, what can I do to accomplish what I find interesting in the world?’ I never start from a place of my ethnicity or my gender, I start from a place of ambition and just curiosity about the world,” she said. —PTI