Priyanka Chopra - "The Only Thing You Need To Wear Well Is Your Confidence"

i have to be very honest that when i was 17 and 18 when i became respectively when i became miss india in miss world it was the beginning of me even entertaining the idea of show business in my head because i wanted to be an engineer i was a physics math student i wanted to be an aeronautical engineer i wanted to build planes i wanted to be in nasa i come from an extremely academic family no one in my wildest dreams in my family had imagined show business as a career my grandmother in fact still asked me until about 10 years ago what do you do [Laughter] she said i'm an actor yeah yeah but what do you like what's yours yeah trust an indian grandmother to ask you that but um so what changed with me when i when when i became miss world which happened in london actually it gave me a sense of self i when i was a teenager i had a lot of self-esteem issues like most teenagers do you know you don't know what's happening with you you don't know what your body is going through you don't know i was gawky my hair was all funny and frizzy and i didn't know what to do with it i had so much of it i yeah and like i hated braids and my mum would make them and you know so i had all of those issues even when i was in america i went to high school in america and um i was very confused with who i was and what i was supposed to be um i was bullied in school a little bit not by everyone but i had a bully and she just made my life miserable and used to you know hate on me basis where i came from i think that's probably all she knew to hurt me to call me curry she used to call me brownie she said go back to your country on the elephant you came on and it got really at 15 it got really hard for me i decided you know i want to go back to india and i went back home and i feel like that's when destiny played its game my mum randomly sent photos without telling me to miss india i didn't know i just thought that they called me because i was discovered yeah teenage egos [Laughter] and then it gave me a sense of confidence that i could walk onto the stage speak the way i speak and i've been raised to be an opinionated girl my parents always told me if you have an opinion don't be afraid to share it and that's all i did i didn't know how to walk on heels i tripped on my sari backstage five times and then i was in like these velvet pants with boots on and then i tripped on it again i knew it would happen to me on stage i still have ptsd about it but but i'm just saying like it it gave me a sense of the fact that my personality and the way i speak and my confidence is what won me that crown made me feel like confidence is your best accessory there is nothing else you need if you the only thing you need to wear well is your confidence [Music]

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Length: 3min 2sec (182 seconds)

Published: Mon Jun 12 2017