- Priyanka Chopra Jonas said she was dropped from two films after a doctor damaged her nose.
- In her new memoir, the star said that she had surgery after a polyp was found in her nasal cavity.
- The doctor "accidentally shaved the bridge of my nose and the bridge collapsed," Chopra Jonas said.
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Priyanka Chopra Jonas said that a botched surgery altered her nose and led to her getting dropped from two movies at the start of her acting career.
"I felt devastated and hopeless," Chopra Jonas said of the surgical error in her new memoir titled "Unfinished," released on Tuesday.
In the book, the actress detailed her rise to fame, which began when she was crowned Miss India World in January 2000 at 17 years old and won the title of Miss World later that year.
Following her pageant success, Chopra Jonas began her acting career in India with a series of movies. More than a decade later, she had a breakthrough in the US when she landed the starring role on the ABC series "Quantico" — which marked the first time a South Asian actor played the lead character on an American network TV show.
But before her career in the entertainment industry took off, Chopra Jonas learned in summer 2001 that there was a polyp (a benign growth) in her nasal cavity that would require surgery in order to be removed. She first became aware of the issue when she developed a "lingering head cold" followed by breathing issues.
"Fortunately, a polypectomy sounded like a pretty routine procedure. Unfortunately, it wasn't," the actress wrote in her memoir.
Chopra Jonas said that the doctor "accidentally shaved the bridge of my nose and the bridge collapsed." When the surgery ended and she looked at the result, she and her family were "horrified."
"My original nose was gone," Chopra Jonas recalled. "My face looked completely different. I wasn't me."
"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," she added.
The "We Can Be Heroes" star said that the situation was worsened by the public scrutiny and the rumors that spread.
Around the same time, Chopra Jonas' potential acting career was put in jeopardy when she was dropped from two out of four movies that she signed on for, after "the producers heard rumors that I looked different post-surgery."
"As if the physical and emotional pain of the original and subsequent corrective surgeries weren't enough, this was a terrible blow," Chopra Jonas wrote, explaining that these films were supposed to be her first-ever following her win as Miss World.
"My career, a career based so much on physical appearance, seemed to be over before it had even really started," the actress said.
Chopra's role in the Hindi movie "The Hero: Love Story of a Spy" was also minimized to a supporting part. She made her film debut in the fourth project she initially signed on for, a Tamil movie titled "Thamizhan."
The actress said that the experience on set was a positive one, in which she regained some of the confidence she had previously lost.
As for her nose, Chopra Jonas said that it normalized over time, after "several corrective surgeries."
"I've gotten accustomed to this face," she said. "Now when I look in the mirror, I am no longer surprised. I've made peace with this slightly different me."
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