Priyanka Chopradidn’t get a nose job on purpose.
But she got one.
Afterward, she narrates in a teaser to her new memoir,Unfinished, things spiraled out of control.
“A career based so much on physical appearance seemed to be over before it had even really started.
I felt as if a door had been opened and then slammed in my face.
And it hurt,” Chopra wrote (viaInstagram).
Chopra has since racked up 52 Bollywood credits.
If you’re not into Bollywood, maybe you’ve seen her inQuanticoorBaywatch (viaIMDb).
You’ll almost certainly see her inThe Matrix 4.
Maybe you’ve heard her husband,Nick Jonas, gushing about her.
“You’ve just got to learn how to swim and I did,” she reflected.
But the nose job nearly did her in.
“I was having trouble breathing.
It should have been a standard procedure that lasts, according toNuffield Health, under 30 minutes.
But in the process of removing her nasal polyps, something went wrong.
It wasn’t until she removed her bandages at home that she realized the implications of it.
“My original nose was gone.
My face looked completely different.
I wasn’t me anymore.”
Chopra didn’t just have to come to terms with her new face by herself.
She had to face what other people were whispering about it, too.
In a third, she got significantly less screen time.
The nickname that the media came up with, “Plastic Chopra,” circulates to this day.
It doesn’t bother Priyanka Chopra anymore.
“I’ve made peace with this slightly different me,” she writes in her memoir.
“This is my face.
This is my body.
I might be flawed, but I am me.”
