Priyanka Chopra Jonas enters her best season yet. priyankachopra is opening up to hodakotb about welcoming daughter Malti, married life with Nick Jonas, working on Citadel, and becoming TODAY’s Spring cover star.
After settling into married life and welcoming daughter Malti, Priyanka tells TODAY’s Hoda Kotb she's primed to"conquer the world."oda Kotb is running late for her interview with TODAY’s spring cover star Priyanka Chopra Jonas, but she has a bulletproof excuse.
“My husband is the kindest, most generous, gentle, thoughtful man — and also extremely intelligent and patient,” Priyanka tells Hoda. The effusive praise of Nick will become a recurring theme in their nearly hour-long conversation, which runs the gamut of emotions: laughter, introspection and even tears.
For the uninitiated, Priyanka stepped into the limelight nearly 23 years ago, when she was crowned Miss India World 2000 at age 17. Her accidental pageant career – the result of her then 10-year-old brother and mom entering her without her knowledge – culminated in a Miss World title the same year. That launched Priyanka into a decade-long film career in India, where she eventually became one of the country’s highest paid actors, appearing in nearly 70 movies.
“You were 13, I mean…there’s no more awkward or insecure or scared time in your life than that,” Hoda points out. “You had the moxie to say, ‘I want to try this.’ That’s big confidence for a kid that age.” Priyanka shares with Hoda that it was a dark chapter in her life, one where she felt a lack of friends and community and endured crippling sadness. The combination fueled an unhealthy period of emotional eating and drinking that, Priyanka says, greatly impacted her body image as well as her mental and physical health.
“A lot of us go through life, and we always compare someone who we fall in love with, with our fathers. You need someone who measures up, somehow,” Hoda says to Priyanka. “Well, look at you: You found this wonderful man named Nick. What is it about your love story that you think makes this so magical?”
“I don’t know how you can improve on what looks like a beautiful, perfect life. That little baby…That baby tested you when came into the world,” Hoda, a mom of two young daughters herself, says to Priyanka with tears in her eyes. “It was scary and the baby needed love, care, and all your prayers. What were those initial days like when Malti was born?”
“She’s like, eating it with both her hands,” Priyanka laughs while mimicking the motions, “as if she’s eating ice cream!” Priyanka says she and Nick want their daughter to be bilingual in Hindi and English, and that the baby is still soothed by the Hindi lullabies that Priyanka sang to her in the NICU, the same songs her own mother used to serenade her with.In “Citadel,” which premieres on April 28, Priyanka plays the character of Nadia Sinh.
While it seems fitting that she has managed to find adventure and romance both professionally and personally, Priyanka says the stability she now enjoys is a result of finally embracing what she never focused on in the first part of her career: balance.
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