Padma Lakshmi has some choice words for the trolls who criticize her anatomy while she’s cooking up a storm in kitchen tutorial videos.
“I have boobs, I have nipples!” she told Pvnew exclusively at the TIME 100 Gala Wednesday. “So does every woman and man on the planet.
“I think we should just be a little more grown-up about it,” the culinary macher continued, “and also just accept that a woman’s body is beautiful and … not totally perfect and stuff and filtered and everything.”
The “Taste the Nation” host has been heavily criticized on social media for her kitchen attire.
In 2020, during the height of the COVID-19 lockdown, Lakshmi responded to online trolls about going braless while recording a cooking demonstration.
“(I got some comments last time that it was immoral for me to not wear a bra in my own kitchen during the quarantine,” she captioned an Instagram video of herself making lasagna. “So those people should be happy to note that I’m wearing two today