The 41-year-old was simply observing the ritual called Mundan where a kid is freshly shaven to suggest freedom from the past and stepping into the future.
The TV presenter carried her mini-me while strolling through New York’s Soho neighbourhood with friends. Wearing a standard bindi on her forehead, little Krishna and her mother wore matching sunglasses.
The smiley child topped her T-shirt with a red circus-ringmaster-style jacket, blue jean skirt, black tights, and tiny motorcycle boots. Padma paired her black military-style jacket with shiny red boots, a striped shirt, and blue jeans.
The single mom even stopped at one point to feed her female child a delectable frozen treat on top of a newsstand. In a contemporary interview with iVillage, Padma said that her daughter gets her ‘crazy curls’ from her grandmother Vijaya.
“I see a large number of my mother in her. She’s very fair-skinned, so I see a white version of my mom,” the Daily Mail quoted Lakshmi as telling iVillage. “Physically she has that sort of crazy curly hair like my mom. And, she just looks as if my mom -- especially when she wakes up within the morning,” she added.
