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Saturday, March 26, 2011

'Top Chef's Padma Lakshmi gets personal about endometriosis

'I didn’t know how much pain I was in until I wasn’t in pain anymore"

Cause Celeb highlights a celebrity’s work on behalf of a specific cause. This week, we speak with model, actress and television host Padma Lakshmi about her charity, the Endometriosis Foundation of America. Lakshmi herself had the painful disorder, which affects millions of women and adolescent girls in the United States.



Lakshmi joined the organization and relaunched it with Dr. Tamer Seckin in 2009. Lakshmi, host of “Top Chef” on Bravo channel, uses her celebrity to bring awareness to the disease and its symptoms. Endometriosis is an often painful disorder in which tissue that normally lines the inside of the uterus grows outside the uterus.On March 18, the Endometriosis Foundation of America hosted its third annual Blossom Ball to raise funds to combat the debilitating condition. To find out more information about endometriosis and future events, you can visit http://www.endofound.org/.

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