Salman Rushdie Fourth Wife: Who Is Padma Lakshmi?

Padma Lakshmi, the fourth wife of Salman Rushdie, is an Indian American author and media personality who has been active in the media scenes for three decades.

Padma Lakshmi and Salman Rushdie tied the knot in 2004 but their marriage could not stand the test of time, hence, they divorced officially in 2007.

Padma Lakshmi plies her trade as an author, activist, model, and television host and she is the mother of a beautiful girl called Krishna Thea Lakshmi-Dell.

Padma Lakshmi is the author of books like “Easy Exotic: A Model’s Low-Fat Recipes From Around the World”, “Tomatoes for Neela”, “Love, Loss, and What We Ate”, and others.

After parting ways with Salman, Padma Lakshmi got engaged to a billionaire businessman called Theodore Joseph Forstmann from 2009 to 2011.

Padma Lakshmi hails from Madras, Tamil Nadu, and she holds a Theatre Arts and American Literature from Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts. Padma Lakshmi is 51 years of age and she is multilingual.