One major career milestone for many young models is appearing on the cover of Sports Illustrated in swimwear. Kate Upton did it. Tyra Banks did it. Brooklyn Decker did it. The list goes on and on. Former model and Top Chef host Padma Lakshmi recently joined the list of stars who got in shape for the Swimsuit Edition of the magazine. Yet, at 52 she’s much older than many of the names on the list, and she recently admitted she thought it was something that would have happened earlier in her career.
While the Top Chef host knows her way around a bikini, she revealed in a recent interview while promoting Taste The Nation that she thought it was a joke when her publicist called to reveal the news.
