Padma Lakshmi's baby girl sees her nude photos daily

Indian-American cookbook author Padma Lakshmi has revealed that her daughter sees her nude photos everyday.

Lakshmi, 40, had caused quite a stir back in 2009 posing naked for a magazine while pregnant with her daughter Krishna Thea Lakshmi. But she insists that there is nothing wrong with them.

"I think those are beautiful pictures and they hang in our design studio and my daughter passes those pictures every day," Fox News quoted her as saying while unveiling Frito-Lay's 'Flavor Kitchen' on Times Square.

"I think a woman's body is one of the most beautiful creations on this Earth and it's not what you do, it's how you do it. Michael Angelo did nudes too.

"There's a difference between a beautiful photo and an exploited photo, and I don't believe there's anything exploited in the photos that I've taken," she added.

Meanwhile, Lakshmi is reportedly in the midst of a bitter custody battle with her daughter's father, Adam Dell, who is the brother of Dell computer founder Michael Dell.