Padma Lakshmi Answer

06/05/2023

A. Lakshmi’s daughter Krishna (whom Lakshmi calls Little Hands) celebrated her bat mitzvah last year. Krishna’s father, Adam Dell (venture capitalist and brother of Dell Computer founder Michael Dell) is Jewish. Said Lakshmi about her daughter, “She’s a big girl, she just turned 12. She also got her nose pierced recently and looks fantastic.”

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D. In a 2006 ABC miniseries, The Ten Commandments, Lakshmi played Bithia, daughter of the Pharaoh. Bithia took in baby Moses and raised him as her son after Moses’s mother Jochebed placed him in a basket in the Nile River to save him from the Pharaoh’s edict that all Jewish newborn males must be killed.

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