7. Padma Lakshmi
Like many women in Hollywood, Padma Lakshmi has been the focus of numerous tabloids prying into her personal life. The rocky marriage and divorce with Salman Rushdie caused people to wonder who her next beau would be. The Top Chef host stirred up a media storm when she became pregnant in 2009, and didn’t know who the baby’s father was. A bitter custody battle ensued (including a DNA test), and the child was found out to be from her ex-boyfriend, Adam Dell.
Padma opened up to Matt Lauer in an interview where she was asked about the fact that she was open about sleeping with more than one man at a time. She said, “I probably shouldn’t have been with anybody and just taken the time I needed for myself but I was presented with two very different, very interesting men and men do it all the time. I chose to do it. I was open with the men involved.” While it is true that many men choose to sleep around without any commitments, the public often turns on women who try and engage in the same type of behavior. While she seems to have moved on from this experience, even writing a book about it, she is still known to many as the woman who didn’t even know who got her pregnant.
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