Padma Lakshmi: 'I don't raise daughter alone'

Padma Lakshmi has said that she does not feel like a single parent.

The Top Chef host welcomed daughter Krishna in February 2010 but insisted that she did not want the child's father Adam Dell to be part of their lives.

In an interview with Yahoo Shine, Lakshmi credited her large family and friends circle with helping to ease the burden of single motherhood.

Lakshmi said: "One thing I'll say, in truth - I am a single parent. But I don't feel alone at all in parenting my daughter. I have a big family, who I am surrounded by, and friends. Krishna has a whole other side of her family who loves her, too.

"And so Krishna is parented by me, but also by her grandmother and aunts and cousins and uncles and friends. It's a corny thing, but it does take a village. The more who encompass her, the more different kinds of people who are in Krishna's life, the better off she is."

Earlier this year, Lakshmi was involved in a custody battle with Dell, who claimed that she prioritises career over parenting.

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