• Padma Lakshmi says she eats as much as 9,000 energy a day on “High Chef.” 
• Lakshmi beforehand revealed she beneficial properties 10 to fifteen kilos in the course of the filming of every season. 
• The 52-year-old just lately appeared in Sports activities Illustrated’s iconic Swimsuit Difficulty. 

Padma Lakshmi has tried hundreds of dishes throughout her 17 years on “High Chef,” and so they include loads of energy. 

Lakshmi just lately revealed on “Jimmy Kimmel Stay” that she eats as much as 9,000 energy a day whereas filming the hit sequence. 

“First half of the season when now we have plenty of contestants, eight or 9 thousand energy a day, simply,” Lakshmi instructed Kimmel on Monday evening. 

In a 2013 interview with Health journal, Lakshmi mentioned she beneficial properties 10 to fifteen kilos in the course of the filming of every “High Chef” season and goes up two gown sizes.

However Lakshmi added that she by no means tries to restrict herself whereas she’s on the present. After every season, she eats more healthy and workout routines 5 occasions every week. 

“I really like meals means an excessive amount of to starve myself simply to look good,” she instructed the journal. “I’ll put within the work on the health club so I can take pleasure in what I eat.” 

And Lakshmi was much more motivated after she was requested to seem in Sports activities Illustrated’s iconic swimsuit difficulty this 12 months. The difficulty will hit newsstands on Could 18. 

“I used to be like, ‘I gotta go to the health club. Oh my god!’ Fortunately, I used to be already hitting the health club fairly exhausting as a result of it had been only a month since I obtained house from filming ‘High Chef,’” she instructed Kimmel.

Lakshmi additionally instructed Kimmel it was “positively significant” to be requested to seem within the difficulty. 

“I’d have killed for it after I was in my 20s and a mannequin as a result of it’s the holy grail and so they by no means even referred to as me for something like this. And I actually thought that ship had handed, to be trustworthy,” the 52-year-old mentioned. “So after I obtained the decision now a number of months in the past, I used to be like, ‘You are fucking shitting me, actually?’ I didn’t imagine the information on the telephone. After which I began freaking out.”

In a video for Sports activities Illustrated shared on Monday, Lakshmi mentioned it is “sweeter” being within the swimsuit difficulty in her 50s moderately than her 20s.

“It is necessary to indicate girls of all ages, physique sorts, pores and skin colours and present that magnificence is so huge and broad of a spectrum,” Lakshmi mentioned within the clip. “And so when younger girls see this, I hope they see that they’ve an extended life to dwell and that have and knowledge truly makes you extra fascinating.”

“I am grateful for my physique, for it permitting me to have a child, for it permitting me to eat like I do, and all that it is given me,” she added.