Top Chef alum Padma Lakshmi reveals holiday traditions with daughter Krishna

Padma Lakshmi is sharing how she sweetens the holidays.The “Top Chef” alum, 54, revealed the ingredients she uses to create a magical time with her 14-year-old daughter Krishna, over Christmas.“Being in my pajamas and building ginger bread houses,” Lakshmi exclusively told The Post at Vulture Fest.“Decorating the tree and making cider.”The model shares Krishna with ex Adam Dell and has been vocal in the past about motherhood and the close bond she has with her mini-me.“I took her off of social media, and I have controls on her phone,” Lakshmi confessed to Today in May, adding that she’s sure Krishna scrolls online on other people’s phones.“It is hard, as any parent will tell you, to combat all of the influential forces that prey upon a child’s mind, whether you are male or female,” admitted the food connoisseur.

“It’s worse for girls, of course, but I try to combat that.”Reflecting on her career, Lakshmi recognizes it could come with challenges for her only child.“She also has a mother that does fittings, and tries to fit into Emmy dresses.She also has a mother who’s in Sports Illustrated,” she continued.

“That’s not easy for her.And I’m very cognizant of that.”Lakshmi said she tries to separate Krishna from that world.“I have kept her as away from this as I can.

Because there’ll be time for her to have it,” she noted.“But I need her to focus on her education, on her talent, on her skills as a musician or whatever she wants to do with her own life.”Lakshmi echoed her own sentiments while talking to People earlier that month.“I’m strict about some things and I’m not that strict about other things that I probably should be stricter about like bedtime [as] she’s 14,” she explained to the outlet.“But I was very strict was about making sure she ate a very good diet the first four, five years of her life, and I will not abide by her being disrespectful to adults,” the TV star continued.

“She’s ...