Top Chef’s Padma Lakshmi has been in the news lately for two reason: posing naked in Allure and for co-founding the Endometriosis Foundation of America.
Padma has decided to take her personal experiences of her medical battle with endometriosis and raise awareness on the condition. Endometriosis is a women’s condition that affects fertility but can be treated with surgery. It is fairly common, however many women are not aware and are not getting tested. Padma was under the care of Dr. Tamer Seckin, had the surgery and has made a full recovery. Dr. Seckin and Padma have co-founded the Endometriosis Foundation of America together.
“It’s a very personal issue,” Padma Lakshmi told People Magazine. “It has to do with the most private aspect of a woman’s life, and when I had to have surgery, I had to miss work and explain why. I just found that in talking to people, not many people knew what it was.”
“It’s probably the most prevalent disease” affecting reproductive health, explains Dr. Tamer Seckin. “It’s also the most misunderstood, misdiagnosed, mismanaged and mistreated. And women, because of that, end up being infertile and in chronic pain.”
On April 20, Padma Lakshmi and Dr. Tamer Seckin will host the Endometriosis Foundation of America’s first fundraiser, “The Blossom Ball,” at the New York’s Prince George Ballroom in Manhattan.
That’s not all the 38-year-old model and Top Chef host is up to these days. On April 21, Allure’s ‘Naked Truth’ feature will hit newsstands and Padma is one of five celebrities who decided to bare it all. In the issue, she talks about preparing for the shoot and says, “I exercised a little bit extra, but I actually think I look better when I have a little bit of weight on-my breasts are fuller, and I’m curvier than when I’m at my thinnest.”
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