'Top Chef' beauty Padma Lakshmi has revealed that she likes to sleep in the nude.

The Indian American, who has stripped down to her birthday suit for revealed in an accompanying magazine interview that she's very confident about her body and likes to sleep in the buff when she's on her own.

"I tend to sleep in the nude. I'm an innately tactile person and a very sensual-leaning woman. You have to use the word 'leaning' or it sounds like I'm boasting! When I'm in my own private space, I do spend time with very little on," she told Allure.



When asked how did she prepare for the shoot, the beauty said:

"I exercised a little bit extra, but I actually think I look better when I have a little bit of weight on-my breasts are fuller, and I'm curvier than when I'm at my thinnest."





The Top Chef host, 38 added that : "I like the way I look. I think I look better now than I did in my 20s, because I'm more confident about my body-and I don't want to look like anyone but myself."

Padma was born in Kerala, but moved to Chennai, Tamil Nadu before spending most of her adolescent life in the United States. Lakshmi was named number 66 on AskMen.com's "The Top Most Desirable Women of 2008" list.

Lakshmi along with E! talk show host Chelsea Handler, "Dollhouse" star Eliza Dushku and Lynn Collins stripped down to their skin for the May issue of Allure.The magazine's Naked Truth feature is available on newsstands April 21.