Priyanka Chopra Jonas has finally spoken about why her nose suddenly started looking drastically different in the early 20002. She revealed it happened because of a botched surgery and left her ‘horrified’ at the results of undergoing a routine procedure. Priyanka had often been accused of going under the knife and resorting to plastic surgery on her nose but she has always refrained from commenting on it.
Now, she has spoken about the incident in her recently released memoir Unfinished. She discussed the fallout of the surgery, and the tag ‘Plastic Chopra’ that was given to her after the procedure. She wrote, according to People, that she had trouble breathing and it was discovered that she had a ‘polyp’ in her nasal cavity. She was told it was routine procedure and she decided to get it surgically removed in 2001, the year after she won Miss World and had entered Bollywood with her debut film. PeeCee had a ‘lingering head cold’ which she assumed was just a ‘very bad sinus infection,’ she was later diagnosed with a polyp and advised to undergo a polypectomy. However, the procedure went severely wrong.
Priyanka wrote in her memoir, “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. I felt devastated and hopeless. 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.”
Talking about the ‘Plastic Chopra’ tag, she wrote, "I decided that there was a line I was going to draw in my life. 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."
PeeCee later underwent several corrective surgeries done and made peace with a ‘slightly different’ version of herself. She wrote, “While it took a few years of seeing a stranger gazing back at me every time I looked in the mirror, I’ve gotten accustomed to this face. Now when I look in the mirror, I am no longer surprised; I’ve made peace with this slightly different me. This is my face. This is my body. I might be flawed, but I am me.”
(Source: People/Unfinished)
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