This was unexpected, and interesting

I've written a few things about Padma Lakshmi on this blog.

Like this, recently.

And this, first time I commented on her pregnancy.

And then this, commenting on the possibility that billionaire Ted Forstmann was the father of her baby (as yet unborn).

Finally this, in which the father's identity was revealed, though at the time it was merely speculated.

Subsequent to the birth, Lakshmi and true father Dell had a bit of a tussle about his role in the child's life, ultimately settled.

But now comes this interesting article, in which it was revealed that Forstmann would have raised the baby as his and provided for her over her whole life - if Padma didn't tell the world who the real father was, and let the world think that the baby was his.

Ah the webs we weave when first we practice to deceive.  Ultimately Padma went with the honest route, which I think was prudent in this day of accurate DNA tests.