Basting Her Belly

eyes. “One thing that happens when you’re pregnant is that as your stomach starts to stretch [and] it itches! So I have to keep my belly really lubricated.” To relieve the itch, Lakshmi, who divorced the author Salman Rushdie in 2007, says, “Every morning, there’s a buttering ceremony after I get out of the shower. It’s really like basting a turkey with body butter.”