The queer internet is currently losing its mind over what many are speculating is a romantic relationship not-so-quietly brewing between author, model and foodie Padma Lakshmi, and Top Chef icon, Melissa King.
The pair have been close for a while, but the delicious rumors really began to swell when Lakshmi and King wore joint The Addams Family Halloween costumes (obviously, Lakshmi was Morticia and King was Gomez). In a post featuring the two of them together — which, by the way, included one picture of King kissing Lakshmi’s bicep — King quoted Gomez Addams: “I would die for her. I would kill for her.”
The heat under this lesbian stew turned up a notch last week, when Lakshmi was seen at a New York City restaurant laughing with King, who was sitting on her lap. Just a few days later, the two uploaded a video of them cooking together, and at one point King joked about how gay Lakshmi’s nails were.
If you haven’t seen the video, Lakshmi’s nails are actually textbook lesbian, with the nails on her index and middle fingers shorter than all the others. “Stop starting rumors,” said Lakshmi playfully, visibly blushing. That’s when most of us knew there was definitely something up.
Although Lakshmi has never explicitly come out to the public as queer, she has dropped hints. In her 2016 memoir ”Love, Loss, and What We Ate,” Lakshmi hinted at having had sexual and romantic relationships with women while she modeled in Europe — but she has not, to my journalistic knowledge, been in a relationship with a woman. King, on the other hand, openly identifies as a lesbian and has long been an advocate for LGBTQ+ issues.
