Priyanka Chopra Jonas was left with a sour experience in the early days of her career when a director had said that her ‘panties should be seen’ in a song that will eventually draw the audience to the theatres. Priyanka had bared all in her memoir Unfinished where she revealed that another director-producer had advised her to get a ‘boob job’ and other cosmetic enhancements done. PeeCee wrote that although she did not go ahead with these projects it took her years to come out of the trauma and speak about these bitter experiences.
In an interview with an international portal, Priyanka said, “I did because as much as I may have walked away from the project because of how he spoke about me or spoke to me... He didn't see me as an artist bringing something to the table, he saw me as an object for titillation. That's it. That's all I was there for. It makes you feel small. As much as I walked away from the movie because it made me feel that way, I didn't do anything about it. I didn't say anything about it because I had to work within the system. So I put my head down and I worked within the system.”
She further said, “Why did I do that? Because I had insecurities. I was scared. I was trying to make a career at that point. I didn't want it to be taken away from me. Girls are told, 'You don't want to attract the wrong kind of attention. You don't want to be hard to work with. You gotta smile and everything is alright.' I did that for a really long time because I was insecure. It’s okay to be insecure. No one is perfect. No one can live in black or white. Everyone lives in grey and that's okay.”
Priyanka has opened up with a few more revelations in her book that has become a bestseller in the US, the UK and India.
(Source: Entertainment Tonight)
