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Hi, British Vogue.
This is Priyanka, and today I'm gonna be taking you
through my Instagram archive.
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Okay, well this is a really good picture.
I was drinking tequila in the afternoon
and went and got my first tattoo.
I was like, this is not gonna hurt, I'm a strong girl.
I can do this, but it hurts on the bone right here, oh!
It was in my dad's handwriting.
He used to always call me my little girl, my little girl.
So he is always with me now.
Okay, this man, oh my gosh,
this was a rough movie on so many levels.
First of all I was playing a real person
who's literally almost my age.
Her name is Mary Kom.
She's a multiple, multiple multiple Olympic
and gold medal winning boxer.
I've always taken each part that I do very seriously.
I went to her house, met her family, her kids,
and she had me go through her archives.
Training for this was insane.
Like I had so much newfound respect for athletes.
Training every morning to build my body up
and then every evening to learn boxing as a sport
to be able to be decent enough to do it in a movie.
I can't even imagine what it must be like in a ring.
I was injured all the time and we did all our fight scenes
with real life boxers.
So you can imagine, I was like, girl, we're acting.
And she's like pff.
Aw, this is a really sweet video.
This was my first trip with UNICEF
as their global Goodwill ambassador.
We went to Zimbabwe and Johannesburg.
This was a field trip to a school.
They showed me a few of their dance moves
and then I showed them the thumka.
It's a classic favorite of mine.
I bust that one out anywhere I go.
And I'd given all the kids little bindis.
My vocation or my day job is to be able to amplify voices.
This one was May, 2018.
This was my second time going to the Met
wearing Ralph Lauren.
The first time when I had gone,
I wore this giant trench coat.
This time we wanted to take a more femme approach
and I loved this outfit.
The inspiration for the headpiece was a dupatta,
which is the Indian head scarf that you wear.
It was just so elegant and beautiful.
The hood was embroidered entirely in India.
That was really special.
Okay, this one, [chuckles]
this was when I announced the title of my book,
which was "Unfinished".
I actually was asked this question
on a Vogue 73 questions:
- [Interviewer] If your life were a book,
what would the title be?
- Unfinished.
And then I thought about it and I was like,
that's a really good title.
Writing a book in general is one
of the most challenging things ever,
but writing one about your own life
requires so much introspection.
I had to call family members to corroborate my memories.
[laughs] It was really funny.
Many of my stories were absolutely inaccurate.
It was cathartic.
It was during the pandemic
so it gave me something to really, really focus on.
It felt relieving.
I forgave myself for a lot of things
that I didn't forgive myself
for when I was writing the book.
And it was very exciting at the end,
when I was done, I was like, phew.
Not for a while.
Okay, this one, this is from our Hindu wedding.
We got married the day before
in a Christian wedding already
so we were kind of like married.
It's done according to astrological charts.
And the auspicious time was 10 o'clock at night
and everyone had flown down from America.
They were just so jet flagged.
I could just see my husband glaring
at his family 'cause they were nodding off.
It was so magical because it's a very different feeling
when you hold on to someone in front of everyone
that's important to you and everyone that matters to you.
You kind of realize that that's the family you've chosen.
This is my family now.
Okay, this is December, 2018.
The Forbes Top Most Powerful Women.
I was very excited about it.
I was at a precipice where my life
had just dramatically changed.
This was right after I got married
and it was a little bit of a flex, you know.
This was kind of a reminder that both aspects of my life,
my personal side and my professional side,
I was doing something all right.
If you have the ability to pull yourself
out of the muck that your mind can create sometimes
I think that's a really powerful person.
Rabi_sab, boss lady, hey!
That's cute, thank you.
I should wear suits more often.
[laughs] To be on "The Simpsons" in my wedding dress
was really funny and ironic considering Apu
was the bane of my life when I was growing up.
Everybody kept asking me why I don't speak like Apu,
why my accent wasn't like Apu.
- Hello, I am not interested in buying the house,
but I would like to use your restroom.
- Apu had a really exaggerated Indian accent as we all know.
Now, this was really bittersweet and funny
because obviously "The Simpsons" are an iconic part
of most of our childhood.
But it was also the irony of me in an Indian dress
marrying a white guy, great! [chuckles]
Nick looks like Ross.
He really does actually. [laughs]
So 2019, this is really funny.
Jimmy Fallon's show, which I love
and I love going to his show.
This was his "Ew" skit.
- And I eat as much as I could chew, but not the crest,
'cause the crusts are
- [Both] Ew!
- He was just like "uh" all the time.
I didn't get my ls right.
My look worked but my "uhs" could have been better.
Uh, didn't practice enough.
But this was exciting 'cause obviously I love "Frozen"
and I love "Frozen 2".
And I love everything about Frozen, I want to be Frozen.
I was the voice of Elsa in the Hindi version.
Just really fun, first of all,
to be able to do it with your sister.
Figuring out who Elsa was in Hindi
all those things to think about was a lot of fun.
Ah! [laughs]
This is a mess.
This is holi, it's one of my favorite holidays.
It's the Hindu Festival of Colors.
So you take all of this colored powder
and everyone wears white.
And obviously you can see we do it
in my family with a lot of, you know, pomp and show.
We love our holi holidays.
I take it very seriously.
So my water gun is always locked and loaded
with like the darkest of colors, then I aim for your ear.
But in this one, my husband got me.
This was the first day we brought our daughter back home
from the NICU when she was in the hospital
for about 110 days.
So driving to Cedar Sinai every day became our normal.
And this was the first time we packed up her room
and Nick grabbed the bag and I grabbed her,
and we brought her down, put her into the car seat.
And I was like, how's this little person
going to sit in a car seat?
Like I just wanted to hold her and never let her go
because she'd been through so much.
She loved the drive home.
She was looking outside of the window.
I think it was the first time she saw the sun.
But I was just very overwhelmed by the fact
that we have the privilege and we're so lucky
to have the opportunity to have this beautiful girl
in our lives and I was just feeling so grateful
that we get to do this together as a family.
Many blessings to both of you as new parents
and welcome to this world.
You show your parents, you're truly a warrior.
I mean, she did.
What she went through gave me a reason
for wanting to not take my life so seriously
and not think that, you know,
a small crisis is the end of the world.
She was a true warrior and my inspiration every day.
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That was fun.
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