Padma Lakshmi Says She ‘Lost A Week Of My Life Every Month’ Due To Late Endometriosis Diagnosis

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Padma Lakshmi is venting her anger over her late endometriosis diagnosis. The “Top Chef” host is on the new cover of Women’s Health, and in it she discusses being diagnosed with the disease at 36 after experiencing years of pain.

RELATED: Padma Lakshmi Says ‘Male-Dominated’ Food Industry Needs To Be More Inclusive “At first, I was relieved. It wasn’t until a year after the surgery that I started getting really pissed,” she says of the fact that doctors hadn’t recognized the symptoms before.

The 49-year-old continued, “Like, ‘Wait a minute, I lost a week of my life every month of every year since I was 13 because of this s**t, and I could have had this operation at 20 rather than 36?’ I’m shocked that a health professional didn’t say, ‘This