Indian-American model and television personality Padma Lakshmi has written a revealing autobiography titled 'Love, Loss and What We Ate'. which includes intimate details of her failed marriage to celebrated author Salman Rushdie from 2004- 2007. "I just wanted my own identity. I was making the transition out of one stage of my life and into another. But in order to do that, it required that I wasn't everywhere that he [Rushdie] needed me to be," she said. Lakshmi claims that while their marriage was blissful at first, he soon proved dto be a demanding husband in need of constant attention who was insensitive to a medical condition and labelled her a "bad investment". understand it. She further claims that each year when the Nobel Prize went to another writer Rushdie took it very hard and required consolation.
