Priyanka Chopra’s journey has been an inspiration for many. She has indeed come a long way with rich content-driven as well as commercial films, along with her philanthropic deeds. Her global recognition is proof of the same. The actress, who was crowned Miss World back in 2000, recently shared in an interview that she’s ‘destiny’s child in some way’ and looked up to Miss World 1994 Aishwarya Rai and Miss Universe 1994 Sushmita Sen.
In a new episode of the Read the Room podcast with Cavanaugh James, she praised and gushed about the ladies and said that they are ‘doing so well globally’. When asked about her journey to becoming a beauty pageant winner overnight, she shared, “In my country, beauty pageants are really revered; they are really looked up to, especially the Miss India pageant and the Miss World pageant. There was a decade of winners back-to-back from my country, and it is a little different. I felt that in America, pageants have a bad reputation, and we did not have that growing up. So yes, I was interested when India participated; our family would watch the pageant, and it was really fun.”
She further revealed that she saved newspaper clippings of Aishwarya and Sushmita’s Beauty Pagent wins. She shared, ”I remember 1993 or 1994, Miss World and Miss Universe, Aishwarya Rai and Sushmita Sen, were both from India that year. And I had little snippets from the newspapers in, like, a little collage in my room (of Aishwarya and Sushmita). But it wasn’t like I wanted to be her. It was like, ‘Wow, look at these young women doing so well on a global scale’. So, I was always curious about that, but I never wanted to go after that. So, when I was thrown into it, I really believed I was destiny’s child in some way, and I really ride that, and I do not fight it.”
Priyanka was just 18 when she was crowned Miss World. She then joined the film industry and made her acting debut in the Tamil movie Thamizhan (2002). She made her Bollywood debut with the 2003 film The Hero: The Love Story of a Spy.
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