Priyanka Chopra, the story of harassment and overcoming a Bollywood star in Hollywood

Priyanka Chopra solo tiene 35 años, pero su vida ha sido tan elástica, ha dado para tanto, que ha decidido escribir su autobiografía. Eso sí, la actriz (de Bollywood, primero; de Hollywood, después) afirma que es un retrato vital sin terminar, y ese título le ha puesto, Unfinished, “Inacabado”, El libro sale a la venta este jueves 11 de febrero y en él la también esposa del músico Nick Jonas detalla episodios de su vida, logros y fracasos que la han llevado a convertirse la estrella de origen indio más pujante del cine occidental y que la han dotado de una fortuna de 40 millones de euros.

Various media, from The Independent to People, have had access to book extracts before publication.In them, Priyanka Chopra - or Chopra Jonas, as she has decided to sign it, adopting her husband's name to "honor tradition", as she said - collects the race that started 20 years ago and that she has opened it to the Hollywood hills.Born in Jamshedpur, India, daughter of medical parents in the army, as a child changed residence.With 12 years her family decided to send her to study the United States with an aunt, to return three years later to her native country.He went to aeronautical engineer, but at age 17 his brother encouraged her to perform to a beauty contest: if he left home he would stay his room.And so in 2000 Miss India won.Months later, Miss Mundo.She believes that it was not for her beauty exactly, but for her "eloquence and ambition".

He says in an interview that he has granted The Guardian who has "ambition to win".“Everyone likes to win, but I just like winning.I want to be the one to do what nobody can, ”he says in the talk.Something that emerged after that journey through the United States, which ended fed up and with self -esteem for the soils.After passing through New York and Indianapolis, the worst moment came to the arrival in Newton, Massachusets.The children insulted her at school, they told her to return to her country."Go and take your elephant," they shouted, as he picks up in his book, where he says he took everything to the personal part: "My trust became trizas.I've always had a lot, but at that moment I was insecure of who he was, where he was from ”.

The return to India was the beginning of its success story.If in the US, he counts, he wanted to fit, in his country he did not mind highlighting, being different.He regained confidence.“My parents never told me:‘ No, because I say it!That gives you a sense of yourself.It is the greatest gift that my parents have made to me: that my opinion, my ideas, my dreams mattered, ”says People to People in the book's thread.Hence, in the volume he relates that the death of his father in 2013 plunged her into a deep depression.

The road was not exempt from difficulties.In Bollywood, he also met machismo: a director told him that the only thing he cared was to get her in underwear.But he managed to overcome the misogyny of the sector and became a star that, leaving behind success, launched himself to pursue the American dream.He even tried to forge a race as a pop star in the USA."It was terrifying, I felt a lot of pressure.I had no precedent, ”he tells the British newspaper.

In addition to the fear and loneliness that lived in the first moments, he also faced sexism.During an encounter with an already in the US, he says: “He looked at me for a long time, evaluating me, and then suggested that my chest operate, fix my jaw and add a little more to my butt.If I wanted to be an actress, I had to "fix" my proportions and he knew a great doctor in Los Angeles to send me.My then agent agreed with that evaluation, ”recalls now.All this left her "amazed and with a feeling of being very small".Of course, he left that manager and moved on.

In 2002 he debuted for the big door in the United States, starring in the global Quantico success, the first television series headed by an actor of Hindu origin.Since then, and with more than 60 titles, he has lived on horseback between Los Angeles and Mumbai, although now, after the premiere of the successful The White Tiger (which stars and also produces) and while waiting for the arrival of the Matrix 4 franchise,It is installed in London to shoot a new project with Amazon Studios.It is now defined, counts in the Guardian, as "actress, producer, author, businesswoman, and making steps in technology".

Like your work, your investments have diversified.She is UNICEF's good will ambassador, she has her own foundation in pursuit of health and education;In fact, she says that she considers herself "humanitarian, but apolitic".In addition to having invested in the application of Bumble quotes and has a vegan hair care line.His incursions into the world of beauty, however, has not always brought him joys.Although on many occasions he has said he was proud of his skin, in his youth he made announcements about bleaching creams, something that the networks recovered a couple of years ago and that they affected him."I can't go back and change what I did, but I can apologize for it, and I sincerely do it," he writes now.

As the Guardian tells Unfinished, “this is not a biography of‘ here I am and my laurels and achievements ’.I am dissecting my failures, vulnerabilities, emotions and moments when I cried on the pillow.It surprises me even because I never talk about it.Not even with my family, and here I am, telling it to the world, so I'm dead of fear ”.

The history of overcoming and triumph of Chopra multiplied his exhibition in 2018, when he married at a three -day wedding for the Catholic and Hindu rites with Nick Jonas, one of the brothers and components of the musical band Jonas Brothers.But he is not the protagonist of his book.It is she.And still, as his title says, he has pages to write.