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Family & Parenting | February 23, 2010

Top Chef host Padma Lakshmi welcomes baby girl Krishna

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Padma Lakshmi attends Glamour Magazine's 2009 Women of the Year Awards at Carnegie Hall in New York.
Padma Lakshmi attends Glamour Magazine's 2009 Women of the Year Awards at Carnegie Hall in New York.
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Indian-American cookbook author, model and actress, Padma Lakshmi, has a new credit to her name: mother.

The Emmy-nominated host of Top Chef welcomed her first child, daughter Krishna Thea Lakshmi, to the world on Saturday, Feb. 20 in New York City. The classic Sanskrit name (meaning "dark or black") chosen for the baby girl comes from Lakshmi's family.

Her representative tells People magazine that "mother and baby are well and happy."

Lakshmi, 39, announced her pregnancy in Oct. after struggling with endometriosis and infertility for years, and declined to disclose the identity of the baby's father.

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