Here are some photos of Priyanka Chopra at the Love Again premiere this week. Her dress is Nina Ricci and it was an absurd choice for this premiere. Her husband was her date and he was having a hell of a time getting around her stupid dress, not to mention her costars had to stand like five feet away from her. The color is pretty though – as someone with similar coloring, I also love to wear pale blues and petal pinks.
Meanwhile, there’s always been a lot of talk about Priyanka’s nose, or should I say, her nose job(s). When she was doing beauty pageants in India, she basically had a whole other face from what we see now. She explained in her memoir why she had cosmetic work – basically, she claims that she was getting a polyp removed from her nose and the surgery went wrong and the only way to correct everything was making her nose much smaller. Yeah… I don’t believe that, especially given the fact that I’m pretty sure she’s had a few cosmetic procedures all over her face. In any case, Priyanka talked about her nose again this week:
Priyanka Chopra’s mental health was negatively affected after a doctor-recommended nose job went awry.
“It was a dark phase,” the “Citadel” star admitted on “The Howard Stern Show” earlier this week from Sirius XM’s new Miami studios. Chopra, now 40, said she was previously advised to get a polyp in her nasal cavity removed. However, she said the procedure left her face looking “completely different” and she went into a “deep, deep depression.”
Aside from the effects the rhinoplasty had on her physical appearance and inner thoughts, it also affected her livelihood. The Miss World 2000 pageant winner said she was fired from three different movies after getting the plastic surgery and believed her acting career was “over before it started.”
Chopra shared that she didn’t even want to leave her house at times, but her late father, who was a doctor, encouraged her to go under the knife again to get corrective surgery.
“I was terrified of that, but he was like, ‘I will be in the room with you,’” the “Quantico” alum said. “He held my hands through it and helped me build back my confidence.”
Sure. As I said, I have nothing to disprove Priyanka’s story. She was pretty young during this period of time too, in her early 20s, and I would be willing to bet that she had a lot of people telling her to “fix this” and “get this work done, then we’ll hire you.” Bollywood is the same as Hollywood in that way, and in Bollywood, the fair-skinned, small-nosed Indian girls get the most work. In any case, this is her story and she’s sticking to it!
Some photos of Priyanka’s old face interspersed with premiere pics.
Photos courtesy of Avalon Red, Cover Images.
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- London, UK – PRIYANKA CHOPRA former Miss World 2004 at a press conference to announce Temptation Concerts at Wembley Arena and Birmingham NEC over the weekend of 28th, 29th and 30th of August. Date: 27.08.2004 Ref: UGL021191_0002.jpg COMPULSORY CREDIT: Gary Lee /Starstock/Photoshot,Image: 502503918, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: World Rights – Fee Payable Upon Reproduction – For queries call Photoshot Global HQ – London + 44 (0)20 7421 6000 , also New York Office Tel : + 1 646-429-8731 and Hamburg Office Tel +49 (0)40 530 240 5959, Model Release: no, Credit line: Photoshot / Avalon
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- London, UK – PRIYANKA CHOPRA former Miss World 2004 at a press conference to announce Temptation Concerts at Wembley Arena and Birmingham NEC over the weekend of 28th, 29th and 30th of August. Date: 27.08.2004 Ref: UGL021191_0001.jpg COMPULSORY CREDIT: Gary Lee /Starstock/Photoshot,Image: 502504023, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: World Rights – Fee Payable Upon Reproduction – For queries call Photoshot Global HQ – London + 44 (0)20 7421 6000 , also New York Office Tel : + 1 646-429-8731 and Hamburg Office Tel +49 (0)40 530 240 5959, Model Release: no, Credit line: Photoshot / Avalon
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- London, UK – PRIYANKA CHOPRA former Miss World 2004 at a press conference to announce Temptation Concerts at Wembley Arena and Birmingham NEC over the weekend of 28th, 29th and 30th of August. Date: 27.08.2004 Ref: UGL021191_0071.jpg COMPULSORY CREDIT: Gary Lee /Starstock/Photoshot,Image: 502504024, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: World Rights – Fee Payable Upon Reproduction – For queries call Photoshot Global HQ – London + 44 (0)20 7421 6000 , also New York Office Tel : + 1 646-429-8731 and Hamburg Office Tel +49 (0)40 530 240 5959, Model Release: no, Credit line: Photoshot / Avalon
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- Special Screening for Screen Gems ‘Love Again’ at AMC Lincoln Square. Featuring: Nick Jonas and Priyanka Chopra Jonas Where: New York, New York, United States When: 03 May 2023 Credit: Dave Allocca/Starpix/Startraksphoto.com
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- Special Screening for Screen Gems ‘Love Again’ at AMC Lincoln Square. Featuring: Priyanka Chopra Jonas Where: New York, New York, United States When: 03 May 2023 Credit: Dave Allocca/Starpix/Startraksphoto.com
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- Special Screening for Screen Gems ‘Love Again’ at AMC Lincoln Square. Featuring: Priyanka Chopra Jonas Where: New York, New York, United States When: 03 May 2023 Credit: Dave Allocca/Starpix/Startraksphoto.com
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- Special Screening for Screen Gems ‘Love Again’ at AMC Lincoln Square. Featuring: Priyanka Chopra Jonas Where: New York, New York, United States When: 03 May 2023 Credit: Dave Allocca/Starpix/Startraksphoto.com
Sigh. She was absolutely STUNNING when she was doing all the Miss World stuff. I just don’t get why she would ever do a single thing to her face. Her nose was distinct and complimented her face beautifully.
I STG as a society we are headed in a direction where eventually people will all look the same, having surgically erased everything that makes our faces distinct. We see it in Hollywood, on Instagram etc etc..and it just makes me so damn sad.
I believe you’ve nailed the problem with “distinct” which isn’t valued in pop culture.
She should never have altered her God-given features, the ones which precisely enabled her to rise to stardom.
An overwhelming number of non-Caucasian celebrities mistakenly believe that wiping out their distinctive ethnic characteristics will make them look more mainstream and help them get more contracts. Black and Asian celebs are often shamed into skin bleaching with glycol acid and nose reduction by their own agents, record companies , and movie producers.
This forceful westernization of ethnic feature strikes me as the untold racist abuse in Hollywood. I won’t name anyone but I am feeling so hurt seeing that two of my favorite actress’s initially sublime ebony skin has recently turned dark brown. I can’t fathom how that ethnic self-denial operates, but Hollywood is promoting such uniformity of beauty standards, even if it means blackmailing non Whites into losing career opportunities.
So thumbs up for the resistants – Lupita Nyongo, Viola Davis, Jodie Turner-Smith.
I’m not trying to white wash your extremely valid argument. Just to add to the discussion that Jennifer Grey all but destroyed her film career with a nose job. I believe she was/is still quite successful on Broadway, but the teen version of her my generation knew was unrecognizable post nose job. The weird thing is of course I remember thinking of her as a relatable not traditional beauty back in the day when I was a few years younger than her, but now I watch her in Dirty Dancing or Ferris Bueller and it’s like she’s just adorable. Why change a thing?
She looks like a beautiful woman with her original nose. Now she looks like a perma-child. Pretty in an ingenue-like way, but not beautiful anymore.
Her original face was gorgeous. I imagine that it is shocking to wake up and not look like yourself even if it was/wasn’t a planned rhinoplasty.
Yeah, she was gorgeous with the original face. She’s still a very pretty woman, of course.
Apparently her nose wasn’t the only alteration. She also managed to lighten her complexion quite a bit.
Beverley, yes, you’re right. I would give my eye teeth to look like the original Pryanka (of course she’s decades younger than me there, and that helps, but she was a stunner for sure).
I’ve never liked Priyana’s face – something seems “off” to me. It’s the nose! It doesn’t fit the rest of her face. She was beautiful before.
Jennifer Aniston’s polyp surgery included a slimming of her nose & she looks better now. It’s funny that when Oprah was asked years ago about p.s. and a nose job, she said “No, I just lost weight.”
I have a few friends & relatives who had polyps removed & they all look exactly the same as before once the bruises & swelling subside.
Same here, something always seemed off and this explains it, it’s sad because her original nose was in harmony with her face
I still do think she’s really beautiful. But obviously she was beautiful before too. I wish wish wish women in Hollywood would keep their original noses. Even women that haven’t gotten obvious nose jobs, when you look at old pictures, they clearly have just slightly thinner noses. Not anything too obvious but just enough to give it that homogeneous Hollywood nose look.
Removal of a nasal polyp would not involve the bridge at all. This story drives me nuts.
Yes, thank you! I side-eyed her comment when I read it. I’ve had surgery to remove polyps, plus a septoplasty and my sinuses drained as everything was an absolute mess in there. The surgery doesn’t change the shape of your nose. My doc’s description was “it’s like only renovating the inside of a house – the outside still looks exactly the same”
A rhinoplasty is a completely separate procedure that some people choose to do at the same time, and is performed by a plastic surgeon.
I think it’s tragic that beautiful women of color (and this is the first time I’m seeing pics of her before she had any work done) are being pressured to change their appearance so drastically to conform to western culture’s beauty standards. As has been stated by others on this thread, Ms. Chopra was STUNNING before any surgeon got near her. Tragic. It’s deeply racist and misogynistic. I truly feel for her having seen these photos.
How sad that she has so much of her self esteem locked up in her looks.
A beauty, yes. But everyone ages.
Plastic surgery is a one way street, IMO.
Once you start, then you age, it rarely stops.
I think of Ava Garner, a spectacular beauty who had a successful career. Almost always cast as “The Beauty” as she aged she was cast less and less. Seems to be the pattern in HW since the beginning.
OK, I spoke too soon.
Looking at the earlier photos, I can see why she was upset.
She was gorgeous before any nose work. A unique look, very, very pretty.
A very young Sophia Loren was unique looking to me also.
Glamorous, exotic, with the hour glass figure.
I’m a pale, white, mousy brown haired Minnesotan, throw a rock into a group of 50, you’d hit 10 that blend in and look just like me.
The nose job took her into a very “typical” HW look.
I had not seen her before she married The Jonas Bro, so I had no idea of her original looks.
What a shame she was talked into it.
Yesterday would have been Audrey Hepburn’s 94th birthday. I took some time to watch some beautiful video tributes to her on You Tube. Thank all the goddesses in heaven that she never succumbed to the considerable pressure to change her features, get a nose job, breast enhancements, and pluck her eyebrows. She was a kind, gentle woman but she was no pushover even when she was just starting out. All she did was cap her teeth because they were crooked and distracted in close ups. Of course, being white, she was not under the kind of pressure to “blend in” that actresses of color face. It’s why representation matters. There’s real strength in numbers.
I listened to a lot of her interview on Stern. I came away really impressed with her intelligence. An extremely well spoken woman.
Two things can be true at once- she had to have polyps removed and she had rhinoplasty around the same time.
I wouldn’t be comfortable having cosmetic surgery now (partially because there’s no guarantee it’ll produce the desired result.) But I can totally imagined being pressured into a procedure when I was younger. And literally more vulnerable because of the naivety & insecurity that so many young womxn navigate. Especially if I was being told that having an altered appearance would lead to more employment opportunities in my dream career.
Stories like this always make me think about how Rita Hayworth had electrolysis. Eurocentric beauty standards are so toxic and dangerous. It’s depressing that womxn are expected to endure painful procedures to meet them.
I broke my nose when I was seventeen. Severely. Smashed flat and bent to the side at a 90 degree angle. I had emergency rhinoplasty and I have my same nose. Exactly. I don’t understand why these celebrities don’t just come clean about wanting a different nose. They aren’t fooling anyone.
jenjamtx, Obviously you are not a citizen of Hollywood, where a nasal polyp removal or a deviated septum correction will drastically alter the shape and size of your nose for life, just as if you had cosmetic surgery to do so. Strange, right?
Wow. I love her original nose! She’s beautiful now, but more stunning before.
Oh my, she was so beautiful.
It’s not just the shape of her nose, there is considerably more space now between the tip of her nose and her upper lip. That looks like it was pretty complicated surgery.
As pretty much always, I preferred her original nose.
Wow she was absolutely beautiful before! What a waste of natural genetic blessings…
I’ve always thought there was something odd about her face and now realize it was her nose job. Her new nose does not at all suit her features or ethnicity. If she wanted to tone down her ethnicity with a rhinoplasty I wish her surgeon had just made it slightly smaller. The nose she has now is totally out of place on her face.