Before she established herself as a bonafide Bollywood star, Priyanka Chopra’s rise was nearly upended by a botched plastic surgery procedure early in her career. In her 2021 memoir “Unfinished,” she retold the story of how her doctor found a polyp in her nose that was causing breathing problems. While doing surgery to get rid of the polyp, the doctor “accidentally shaved the bridge of [her] nose and the bridge collapsed,” according to the actor. “My face looked completely different. I wasn’t me anymore,” she wrote. “I didn’t think my sense of self or my self-esteem would ever recover from the blow.”
During an April interview on “The Howard Stern Show,” Chopra opened up about how the results of the procedure sent her into a “deep, deep depression.” But things got worse when the change in her appearance made some directors change their minds about casting her in their films. “It was like the rug was pulled from under me, I was thrown out of three movies,” she recalled. “It was very embarrassing.”
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Eventually, Chopra’s father, also a doctor, helped placate her fears of going under the knife again so she could get corrective surgery. “He held my hands through it and helped me build back my confidence,” the “Quantico” actor admitted. She also credited Bollywood director Anil Sharma with casting her in a supporting role in a film, though she was originally the lead.
