After a year of actually traveling the world as part of her queenly duties, Priyanka returned home with a very bad cold that turned into what she thought was a sinus infection, but was actually a polyp in her nasal cavity. She needed surgery.
The polypectomy seemed routine, but while the surgeon scraped the polyp, he accidentally started to scrape the bridge of his nose, which then collapsed.
When the bandages were removed, she wrote, “My original nose was gone. My face looked completely different. I was no longer me.”
She continued: “I felt devastated and hopeless. Every time I looked at myself in the mirror, a stranger looked at me, and I didn’t think my sense of identity or self-esteem would ever recover from the blow. The experience was very exciting for my whole family – my parents were doctors, after all; how could this have happened? – and to make matters worse, the experience was a public affair. “
One that resulted in the demoralizing nickname “Plastic Chopra”. She was excused from two of the four films for which she signed six months after winning Miss World, a producer “organizing a screen test, or an ‘appearance’ test, to see how my face would look enlarged in a 70’s film. mm to the size of the movie screen. “Another director moved her from the lead to a supporting role, but assured that she would still be on the poster.
Instead of explaining exactly what happened, she didn’t dignify any rumors with answers and tried to continue her life, several surgeries that ended up restoring her nose to a more normal-looking state. The face in the mirror, however, is still “a little different from me”, although she has made peace with him.