Priyanka Chopra Jonas is coming up with her new book, Unfinished. Being a memoir, it addresses several topics which she has not spoken about in the past, and one such is her regret of promoting skin-whitening cream. In a recent interview with Marie Claire, she expressed this guilt while also revealing the reason for doing so. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Priyanka Chopra Jonas (@priyankachopra) “[Skin lightening] was so normalised in South Asia; it’s such a large industry that everyone was doing it. In fact, doing it is still a check [mark] when you are a female actor, but it’s awful. And it was awful for me, for a little girl who used to put talcum-powder cream on my face because I believed that dark skin was not pretty.” View this post on Instagram A post shared by Priyanka Chopra Jonas (@priyankachopra) In the past, too, the actor has spoken openly about it. But in this interview, she also shared the course correction she is working on: launching her own sustainable beauty brand, Anomaly. Without divulging much, she said that the line, in keeping with its name, will seek to acknowledge and enhance several beauty types - the anomalies - without clubbing all of them together. “I’m an anomaly, and everyone else is in their own way," she was quoted as saying in the interview. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Priyanka Chopra Jonas (@priyankachopra) She also spoke about how cathartic writing the book was for her. “I call it the in-between-interviews book. I’ve been in so many interviews in my life, but nobody knows what happened in between them,” she said. For more lifestyle news, follow us: Twitter: lifestyle_ie | Facebook: IE Lifestyle | Instagram: ie_lifestyle
