📣 For more lifestyle news, click here to join our WhatsApp Channel and also follow us on Instagram
© IE Online Media Services Pvt Ltd
Tags:
Journalism of Courage
Priyanka Chopra, who has carved her niche as a global star with an array of acclaimed performances to her credit, is also a doting mother to one-year-old Malti Marie Chopra Jonas, who was born via surrogacy in January 2022. On several occasions, the actor has opened up about the complications during her daughter’s early birth and her experience raising her. Now, in a recent interview with Elle USA, Priyanka has revealed what surprised her about being a mother.
“Just how much you can love something and how viciously you’ll protect it,” she said. “I’ve seen my mom rip people when I’ve been hurt and I just never understood it. I was like, ‘Mom, chill out. What are you doing?’ Now I get it. I would take someone out.”
This, however, doesn’t mean that the actor wants to shield her daughter from the outside world. “I was never left at home with a nanny; I was always with family and friends. I think I had a sense of confidence because I was always around people who loved me, so we’ve really tried to emulate that. Malti is always with her family and she can go anywhere with us. It was very important to us to be able to expose her to just life and its beautiful gifts,” Priyanka said.
She added that her daughter has her “wrapped around her finger”. “I don’t even know how I’ll ever discipline her because I just don’t have it in me. I was so close to losing her so many times that she can get away with anything and I just want to see her happy. I want her to be the happiest. She’s a super smiley, happy baby, and that’s all my goal is—to see her joyous. Every time she smiles, it lights up my world, and that’s all I want to do,” she said.
Further during the interaction, Priyanka also revealed how she and her husband Nick Jonas split the domestic load. “We just feel a sense of contribution when it comes to the not-fun stuff. I don’t remember having a conversation where I’m like, ‘I need you to do more of this’,” she said, adding that couple split their time in a way that one of them is able to do the house chores or be with their daughter.
For the actor, acts of service are her love language. “When you really care about someone, you try to alleviate whatever pressure is on them by doing some of the chores or by taking on something that they always do. It’s simple things: I love coffee in bed, and my husband realized that, and now I always have coffee in bed. That support is tremendously important, but it’s a two-way street. You have to be able to give that love and support to the people that also give you that kind of support. If you see your partner doing something every day that seems boring for them, just surprise them by doing it. It’s the sweetest thing in a marriage,” she said.
Priyanka then opened up about something she has been “thinking of lately”. She shared, “How many women out there who balance work and life forget about doing something that is just for themselves because they’re so consumed by having that work-life balance? I realized my husband plays golf and sports and has all of these hobbies. Why don’t I want more for myself?”
As such, on the sets Citadel, she decided to use her downtime to knit a sweater for Nick. But the resultant effort was, “I swear to God, like seven times his size,” she revealed. “I have no concept of sizing. He was so sweet. He tried it on and was like, ‘Oh, it’s lovely.’ And it’s falling off of him.”
📣 For more lifestyle news, follow us on Instagram | Twitter | Facebook and don’t miss out on the latest updates!
