In a photo featured inside the magazine, Padma is also seen impersonating ''Hannah Montana'' star Miley Cyrus' notorious pose for Vanity Fair. "I like me better naked.

I don't mean that in a vain way .

When you put clothes on, you immediately put a character on.

Clothes are adjectives, they are indicators. When you don't have any clothes on, it's just you, raw, and you can't hide," Padma tells the magazine.

The 39-year-old star, who once was married to award-winning author Salman Rushdie, also says that she's still reassembling her life after their split in 2007. "I [have been] reconstructing my life and putting it back together in a way that looked more appropriate to who I was.

At this point in my career, I'm still growing. Jewels, spices and teas I sound like Magellan," she says.

Padma has not yet revealed the identity of her baby's father. PTI