Padma Lakshmi keeps warm in a long black puffer coat and leggings after leaving the gym in NYC

Padma Lakshmi looked cozy and comfortable in an oversized puffer jacket with a fur-lined hood while leaving Equinox in New York’s SoHo neighborhood on Tuesday.

Following a grueling workout at the luxury gym, the 52-year-old Top Chef host made sure to bundle up in a pair of black leggings and sneakers as she braved the rain.

After working up a sweat, the best-selling cookbook author was seen walking back to her car with her brunette locks styled back in a low ponytail.  

During her outing, she carried a water bottle and her essentials in a small black handbag.

Lakshmi, who shares a 12-year-old daughter named Krishna with ex-boyfriend Adam Dell, previously revealed she maintains her toned figure by jumping rope, weight lifting three times a week, and P.volve.

‘I started going to Pilates a few years ago, because my chiropractor recommended it for my back,’ she told Women’s Health last year. 

Heading home: Following a grueling workout at the luxury gym, the 52-year-old Top Chef host made sure to bundle up in a pair of black leggings and sneakers as she braved the rain

Leaving the gym: After working up a sweat, the best-selling cookbook author was seen walking back to her car with her brunette locks styled back in a low ponytail

‘I started going to Pilates a few years ago, because my chiropractor recommended it for my back,’ she told Women’s Health last year

She continued: ‘Pilates changed my body. It made me strong in places I didn’t know I needed to be. I have a butt now that I didn’t have during my modeling career!’ 

Over the summer, Lakshmi advocated for body positivity while sharing a filter-free video of herself in a white bikini at the pool with the caption ‘stretchmarksandall.’

The author’s comment section was flooded with comments praising her for showing off her imperfections, with one even writing: ‘I feel decades of stretch mark shame melting away forever!’ 

Hard work: She continued: ‘Pilates changed my body. It made me strong in places I didn’t know I needed to be. I have a butt now that I didn’t have during my modeling career!’

Body positivity: Back in 2019, she told Us Weekly that she didn’t diet before filming Bravo’s hit series Top Chef and didn’t mind that she gained weight

Others applauded the star for normalizing stretch marks. 

‘Stretch marks are the stripes of a lioness!!!’ one fan commented, with another saying: ‘Glorious, stretch marks and all! You’re just a ball of fun.’ 

Back in 2019, she told Us Weekly that she didn’t diet before filming Bravo’s hit series Top Chef and didn’t mind that she gained weight. 

‘I’m lucky because I gained weight exponentially, everywhere. I don’t care. I was just happy there was a dress this pretty that,’ she said on the red carpet at the 71st Primetime Emmy Awards

‘I’m lucky because I gained weight exponentially, everywhere. I don’t care. I was just happy there was a dress this pretty that,’ she said on the red carpet at the 71st Primetime Emmy Awards.

Lakshmi added: ‘And at the end of the day it’s just about feeling comfortable. I’m done trying to squeeze my bum into something that is too small. I don’t care. You know, it shouldn’t be about what I look like at this point in my career.’

At the time, Lakshmi also noted that she no longer wears shapewear, like Spanx.

Of when she last wore ‘very constricting’ shapewear, Lakshmi stated that she was ‘pregnant or after I just had the baby.’

Role model: Over the summer, Lakshmi advocated for body positivity while sharing a filter-free video of herself in a white bikini at the pool with the caption ‘stretchmarksandall’