Bad Investment

Padma Lakshmi on Sex, Salman Rushdie and the End of Her Tempestuous Marriage

When Padma Lakshmi, a model and young cookbook author, met Salman Rushdie in 1999, she was dazzled by his brilliance.

"For us Indians, he's like Hemingway," says Lakshmi, who sat down with PEOPLE and Entertainment Weekly editorial director Jess Cagle to talk about her new memoir, Love, Loss and What We Ate.

"Imagine a young woman in her twenties, who loves books and and who had published her little cookbook and in comes this guy," she says. "I mean, he was the best thing that ever happened to me by a mile. The fact that somebody of that stature and caliber was even interested remotely enough in me to want to take me to lunch was kind of unbelievable."

They met in Central Park for their first date, and ended up in bed together. "He seduced me with his words," she says. "I was pretty hooked."

After Rushdie divorced his third wife, (he assured Lakshmi the marriage had long been over), they moved in together in 2000. Their early years, she says, were "blissful" and full of passion. "For me, it was wonderful because I finally had somebody who understood me because he too was Indian and he was also living in the West and he was very nimble in navigating those two worlds." [/size]But as her career in the food world grew, so did his resentment when she could no longer constantly be by his side. "I just wanted to also do something else on my own," she explains. "I just wanted my own identity." Meanwhile, her [color=rgb(6, 122, 180)] severe endometriosis [/color] still undiagnosed at that point, had grown more acute, often leaving her in such chronic pain that she was bedridden and unable to have sex. Their lack of intimacy led to many arguments and at one point, he called her a "bad investment." Watch more of The Cagle Interview with Padma Lakshmi on People.com all week

Fatwa for satanic verses should have been a Clue , Padma  :-[

BTW ...Never Cut yuh Cake on the First date.

haha


man luv he sex

Fullah love Beef  :-[

3 Wives.....gotta love it !

tut ...tut...Trade her In  :-[

Trade in for what


not with a Fatwa still pon he head

hes a proper asshole

He thought to himself, "What's the easiest way for me to get a British of American citizenship?" And then he wrote the Satanic verses.


And he told this plan of his to his friend or brother or one of those two.


So, he knew what his book would do and he still wrote it. He's hailed as a hero by the west, and anyone who's raised voice against him is evil.


Really?


Anyone who offends another willingly is about as evil as one can get.


HE was Donald Trump before Donald Trump started hate mongering.