A natural beauty. Priyanka Chopra Jonas previously described herself as a “gawky imperfect child,” but she blossomed into a stunning beauty and was crowned Miss World 2000.

“I was a gawky kid, had low self-esteem, came from a modest middle-class background, [and] had white marks on my legs. But I was damn hard working,” Priyanka said at the India Today Mind Rocks Youth Summit in 2012. “Today, my legs sell 12 brands.”

The India native moved to the United States at just 12 years old where she lived with her aunt and attended high school, before returning home for her senior year.

“When I went back to India and I was in this small town and I was peacocking like I peacocked in my American high school, I had boys follow me home and one of them jumped into my balcony at night,” she recalled during a May 2023 appearance on The Howard Stern Show. “That’s why my dad was like f–k this. Bars, all your jeans are confiscated, you are going to wear Indian suits, nothing happening. I had a driver drive me everywhere, he was freaked out. I get it but then my career happened.”

She continued, “I feel so bad for my dad because he was like, ‘You’re going to wear loose clothes or you’re going to wear Indian clothes.’”

While the Citadel star was “leaning into” her edgy fashion and her newfound fame, her mental health and self-esteem later took a hit after she underwent a botched cosmetic procedure.

“It was a dark phase,” she told Howard Stern of the aftermath when she learned the surgeons made a mistake during the procedure.

“This thing happens, and my face looks completely different, and I went into a deep, deep depression,” she told the America’s Got Talent judge of the “dark phase” that she experienced after having a polyp removed from her nasal cavity.

She went on to say that she felt her acting career was “over before it started.” It wasn’t until her father convinced her to have corrective surgery that she got her confidence back.

“I was terrified of that, but he was like, ‘I will be in the room with you,’” she recalled. “He held my hands through it and helped me build back my confidence.”

Keep scrolling to see photos of Priyanka’s complete transformation. 

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2000

Priyanka was crowned Miss World 2000.

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2003

Just three years later, the starlet was already a Bollywood icon.

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2006

Priyanka looked stunning on the set of her film Salaam-e-Ishq in Oxford, Britain.

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2007

Aside from acting and model, Pri also became a spokesperson for brands such as Tag Heuer.

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2010

Cell phone companies, like Nokia, were also quick to hire the Bollywood star.

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2012

Priyanka stepped out for the closing ceremony at the 12th Marrakech Film Festival in Marrakech, Morocco.

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2014

By 2014, she was cementing her transition to Hollywood.

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2016

A UNICEF ambassador, Priyanka attended the 70th Unicef Anniversary at the United Nations Headquarters in New York.

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2017

The Quantico alum stunned at the Variety’s Power of Women event in Los Angeles.

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2018

Priyanka married Jonas Brothers’ singer Nick Jonas in a stunning ceremony in Mumbai.

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2019

She attended the Tribute to Australian Cinema in Morocco.

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2020

In early 2020, Pri dazzled in gold at Clive Davis’ 2020 Pre-Grammy Gala.

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2021

The Baywatch starlet looked picture perfect at the Matrix Resurrections premiere in San Francisco.

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2022

She looked classy in a little black dress while out to dinner with Nick and friends in New York.

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2023

Priyanka stepped out for the season 1 premiere of her Amazon Prime show, Citadel.