“I was hurt and I discussed it with my family and I cried to my husband, and my team, and I felt really bad about the fact that I’m not sample size, and that’s a problem.”
Priyanka Chopra became emotional after someone recently body-shamed her.
“Someone told me yesterday that I wasn’t sample-sized,” the 40-year-old actress revealed at a South by Southwest Film Festival event on Friday,“I was hurt and I discussed it with my family and I cried to my husband [Nick Jonas], and my team, and I felt really bad about the fact that I’m not sample size, and that’s a problem.”The mother of one noted, however, that this is not the first time that she’s been told something “difficult to hear” throughout her career.
“In my job, the pressure is so intense you can’t really show the chinks in your armor,” the “Baywatch” star explained during a conversation with Amazon Studios head Jennifer Salke.WireImageWireImage She then added that people have been saying the “meanest and nastiest things” about her and her family, including her and Jonas’“I think sometimes people forget you are even human,” Chopra continued. “And those pressures — it’s inexplicable.
“I can’t explain how it feels when you are sitting down on your couch and you just feel the world coming at you because people have forgotten that you are human.”
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