Top Chef’s Padma Lakshmi takes a break from judging, to dazzle the paparazzi at the The Black Ball in the UK.

Things we didn’t know.

• She’s Indian and she was born in India.
• She’s an actual cook, and cookbook author. We thought she was just another pretty face.
• She was born on September 1, 1970, and she’ll be 40 in two years.
• The scar we frequently see on T.V. was caused by a car accident when she was 14, on her way back home from a Hindu temple in Malibu.