FIRST LOOK: Padma Lakshmi's Juicy New Ad
Padma Lakshmi basically eats for a living, but for most of her life the Top Chef host had a limited diet.

"I grew up a vegetarian," says the host. "Then, because I grew up in the states, I started slowly eating meat. First it was bologna sandwiches, or pepperoni on pizza. As a teenager, [my friends and I] would always go have burgers. I would scarf them down!"

Now, Lakshmi is putting her passion for meat into a new commercial for Hardee's Bacon Western Thickburger. "I think it's a beautiful love song to food," she says of the ad. "I think eating in itself is the act of great sensuality, so all you have to do is point the camera in the right direction."

Asked how the food and fashion icon stays fit, Lakshmi says she works hard to maintain her figure. "I work out all the time! I don't just sit around and eat burgers whenever I want. Oh, if I could I probably would, but I don't," she says.