Padma Lakshmi released her memoir, "Love, Loss and What We Ate," in 2016, detailing her tempestuous relationship with famed author Salman Rushdie. As the New York Times notes, they originally met a party in 1999 and subsequently married in 2004. According to Lakhsmi, the relationship took a turn when she began suffering from endometriosis, which required surgery at one point. Rushdie believed she was using her ailment as an excuse not to have sex. 

The "Top Chef" host soon realized she was better off single as, "I was free to wallow in my malaise, and nurse myself without seeing the disappointment in his face." Rushdie covered their marriage in his own memoir, "Joseph Anton," released in 2012, in which he describes Lakhsmi as someone who was ruthlessly ambitious and couldn't stand to share the spotlight. Looking back on their eight-year relationship, Rushdie dismisses it as living "a sort of life together."