Padma Lakshmi's New Hardee's Commercial

'Top Chef' host Padma Lakshmi says she's "always had a love affair with food" at the beginning of her new, racy commercial for Hardee's Western Bacon Thickburger. In the following stills from the 30-second spot, we imagine what Lakshmi might be thinking as she gets up close and personal with her Western Bacon Thickburger. (Hardee's)

Hi, I'm Padma Lakshmi. I am a culinary expert. See, it says it right there... (Hardee's)

I am quite beautiful, you can tell by my perfect profile... (Hardee's)

But what I really love is digging into bags of naughty fast food... (Hardee's)

And pulling out big, humungous hamburgers, like this Western Bacon Thickburger... (Hardee's)

Especially ones that have big slabs of Western Bacon on them, which I often eat separately, tee hee... (Hardee's)

Western Bacon Thickburgers tend to be messy, and I am not one to waste food... (Hardee's)

Especially catsup, because it is a vegetable, and part of a well-balanced diet, which I learned on "Top Chef"... (Hardee's)

But sometimes catsup drips off my Western Bacon, silly me... (Hardee's)

And onto my leg, where I must dab at it with my finger... (Hardee's)

And return it to my lovely, Lakshmi lips. Now to run a marathon and starve myself for four days, as I weigh 103 pounds, and that Western Bacon Thickburger weighed about 28. (Hardee's)