Sir Salman Rushdie was, for a brief time, “Mr. Padma Lakshmi.” The author — who won the Booker Price in 1981 with his second novel, Midnight’s Children – married the actress and culinary icon in the early 2000s.
Unfortunately, internal and external issues resulted in their marriage going sour. Before the decade was up, they had gone their separate ways, searching for the next chapter in their respective stories. “For me, it was wonderful because I finally had somebody who understood me because he too was Indian and he was also living in the West, and he was very nimble in navigating those two worlds,” she told PEOPLE when discussing her 2016 memoir, Love, Loss and What We Ate.
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