Self-conscious at first, Lakshmi came to embrace her scar after she began modeling, when the mark distinguished her. Her injuries required surgery that left a seven-inch scar along her arm. The crash broke Lakshmi's pelvis and shattered her upper right arm. The family was returning from the temple when the car skidded off the road and smashed into a tree. Lakshmi had recently recovered from an illness, and "my mother, who is very religious, took me to temple so we could thank God for making me better," she later recalled. When she was 14 years old, a car crash changed her life. She returned to India for several months each year to visit family. Lakshmi, who shares her last name with the Hindu goddess of wealth and prosperity, grew up first in New York and then in Los Angeles with her mother and stepfather. Both of her parents later remarried, and she has a younger half-brother and half-sister on her father's side. Lakshmi lived with her maternal grandparents in Chennai for two years before joining her mother in America. Her mother moved to the United States to escape the stigma of divorce in India. Padma Lakshmi's parents divorced when she was 2 years old. Born September 1, 1970, in Chennai, India.
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