Priyanka Chopra wants to set a few things straight. The Hollywood actress recently went on the record to explain why she’s had so many nose surgeries in the past. This comes as the Bollywood beauty is promoting her new book, Unfinished.
Speaking to People Magazine in a new interview, Priyanka says that before her first surgery, she had developed a lingering head cold in which she thought at the time was just a very bad sinus infection.
Priyanka Chopra Explains Why She’s Had So Many Nose Jobs
“I was having trouble breathing. This is a problem someone with asthma can’t ignore,” the star wrote in her new memoir, Unfinished. She ended up seeing a doctor recommended by a family friend, who discovered a “polyp in my nasal cavity that would need to be surgically removed.”
Unfortunately, Priyanka’s surgery didn’t go as planned.
“While shaving off the polyp, the doctor also accidentally shaved the bridge of my nose and the bridge collapsed. When it was time to remove the bandages and the condition of my nose was revealed, Mom and I were horrified. My original nose was gone. My face looked completely different. I wasn’t me anymore,” she said.
The procedure left the star feeling “devastated and hopeless,” she wrote. “Every time I looked in the mirror, a stranger looked back at me, and I didn’t think my sense of self or my self-esteem would ever recover from the blow.” Dealing with the aftermath of the botched surgery was made even more difficult due to her newfound stardom.
She remembers the media giving her a nickname — “Plastic Chopra” — after her surgery. “Let’s just call it out right now. Immediately the name started to show up in articles and newspaper items and it has followed me my entire professional life,” Priyanka continued.
And while Priyanka could have opened up about the matter earlier, she decided that it was better to keep her surgery history private.
“I am an entertainer. That’s what I’ve signed on to do, and that’s what I love doing. I will say my lines, dance my dance, hit my mark. I’ll do my best to make you laugh, and I’ll do my best to make you cry, but just because I’m a public person doesn’t mean everything about my life has to be public knowledge. I get to choose what I share and when I share it,” she wrote.
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