Priyanka Chopra covers the latest issue of Elle UK, and she’s not really promoting one particular film or TV show. Priyanka has so many “side projects” and I guess she’s just at the point in her career where she just appears on magazine covers to chat about life in general. It’s not the worst thing – it’s actually really nice to see an East Indian woman held up as a “get” for all kinds of fashion/beauty magazines. Anyway, you can read Priyanka’s cover interview here. She chats about marrying Nick Jonas, their one million weddings, and her friend, the Duchess of Sussex. Some highlights:
Planning her wedding: ‘We decided on the venue for our wedding in October and we got married on 1 December. We had one-and-a-half months to plan, so we were just like, “Yeah, yeah, yeah, let’s get it.” And suddenly we were like, “Ohhh god.” It was very extravagant. Hopefully, you just do it once. So it’s fine.’
The difference with having a husband: ‘I’d never realised having a husband and a boyfriend are such different things. When you say your vows, it’s like, this person is my family, and it’s the family I chose. There’s a weird responsibility to them. And a safety that comes from it. We are learning about each other every day.’
Winning the Miss World pageant: ‘I will never forget how the Millennium Dome [now The O2] looked that night, and how I felt after I won. Nick and I want to get a place in London at some point. Whenever I go there, I feel connected to the city.’
She’s comfortable with the way she looks: ‘It started happening to me in my early 30s; I got weirdly comfortable. I was like, this is me – take it or leave it. I really wish I could’ve told my younger self, “Don’t be worried about your flaws.” I won’t deny, I care about the vanity. I’m in the business and I want to look the best that I can, but that’s the key term: the best that I can. I’m not 21; I’m not going to try and look it! My body is changing, my body looks different.’
On Duchess Meghan: ‘Megs… she was always meant for big things. To be a change and be an important voice in doing that. It’s amazing that she found that calling and has the platform to be able to do it. By the time this comes out, she will have a baby [Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor was born on 6 May] – it’s so amazing how lives change. I’m a big believer in taking charge of your life, but there’s got to be something bigger that puts us into the circumstances that we are put in. Destiny has a weird way of helping you to find your calling.’
A lot of people who are super-successful or super-famous often feel like it was their “destiny” to get where they are, and I wonder if Meghan feels that way. Or does Meg feel like she went out, lived her life, had a messy family, had a career, met a prince and sh-t got real? Destiny or nah? As for all of Priyanka and Nick’s weddings… “It was very extravagant. Hopefully, you just do it once. So it’s fine…” She does know that she had fifty weddings, yes? Those still count, even if you only marry the guy once. Also, I feel her about giving less of a sh-t about my looks as I get older. Once you’re a few years past 30, it’s like you completely stop caring what people think of your face.
Cover courtesy of Elle UK, additional photo courtesy of WENN.
This is why it’s important to take gossip stories with a grain of salt. Most of the stories are false. Thanks for sharing a real story !
I never heard anything bad about Priyanka until she married Nick Jonas. All of a sudden she became one of the most hated women in Hollywood. I don’t like the mob mentality that has taken over the internet. Too many people are happy to tear down others because of jealousy and other insecurities.
I’m 35 and I still take great care of my face if not more so than in my 20s. Do I care less what people think, to a point but nothing wrong in wanting to look and feel my best especially when aging gets such a bad stigma for women. Personally, I think “caring” about yourself physically, emotionally and mentally is vital…self care as they say. I want to be able to live a mobile and “fun” life well into my 80s and taking care of my skin and body is part of that.
She probably takes care of herself. She just probably doesn’t care if someone has something rude to say about her looks. Chances are she’s better looking than the person slamming her looks though, which is probably the case with most celebrities.
She is a beautiful woman, very gorgeous. Even despite her top puffy lip which is a distraction to me – wish she would tone that down, but she has made it her look . I’ m not into this couple – would have rather seen her with someone more interesting and worldly, someone not so little-boy looking (and honestly, Nick Jonas has ONE expression and it does not scream intelligent to me). To me they often look like older sister/younger brother and I see no chemistry but if they are happy, good for them!
She’s beautiful, but only really young people think adjustment to a 30’s face and bod takes emotional work.
Well yeah she accepted her face because she’s had plastic surgery in order for it to be what it is today. *eyeroll*
Thank you! I rolled my eyes at this as well.
Same- add skin lightening treatment as well.
‘Hopefully, you just do it once. So it’s fine.’
LOLOLOL!!
Kidding aside, I like her. She and Sophie Turner seem to support each other. I like to see women valuing the friendship of other women.
The Suits cast did some fun interviews years ago, and they were asked which cast member they would choose to become President, and pretty much everyone chose Meghan. She’s been accomplishing a lot on her own long before she met Harry. I honestly believe that she would have been working fulltime at the UN or some other high profile job if she had not joined the royal family. Meghan has the potential to do a lot of great things, but the system she married into is not supportive.
Y’all I have had the complete opposite experience. I was all good with my body/face/whatever through about age 30, including at various weights from very skinny adolescence through overweight. Then I started getting horrible adult acne. I lost a bunch of weight, intentionally, then I gained back like 20 pounds. And though I’m now on medication that’s working, I have acne scars I never had as a kid, and I’m disappointed that I gained back that weight, and it’s all throwing me for a terrible loop because I NEVER cared and now I do and I don’t want to. 🙁
I enjoy my 32 year old face better than my younger face. My face has changed as I’ve matured, it’s more angular and womanly, and less childish and round. I used to think my nose was too large, but now that my cheekbones and my eyebrow line (brow ridge?) are more visible, the nose doesn’t seem so out of place.
I know that nearly every big celebrity and Instagrammer have work done, even if just Botox as opposed to surgery, but I sometimes feel like “oh she’s had so much obvious plastic surgery done!” is thrown out a bit too often. When I compare pictures of myself as a teen or early/mid twenty something to what I look like now, it’s really quite different, and I’ve not had any work done. Faces do change as we age, gain or loose weight, or just lose the baby fat and end up with more defined features. I do my eyebrows differently and it’s changed my whole face. Haircuts and color also seem to make my face look different. Obviously, if someone suddenly has huge lips, then I’m going to think they’ve had them done, but if their face just looks thinner, or their nose seems to fit differently in their face (without obviously changing shape), or their brows seem different, or their cheekbones are more noticeable, it doesn’t always mean they’ve been to the surgeon.
I don’t understand the whole fuss around Priyanka. Is it because she’s the first Indian cross-over star to make it big in Hollywood? Wouldn’t that title go to Frida Pinto from Slumdog Millionaire?
I don’t know, but I can’t quite put my finger on it but there’s something obnoxious and entitled about Priyanka. I think Priyanka is starting to believe her own press.
Personally I find Frida Pinto and Jameela Jamil prettier than Priyanka, Jameela comes across as more intelligent as well, Frida as more talented.
White people get exposure without being the very best in terms of talent, beauty, or personality all the time.