On Thursday, Priyanka Chopra shared a uncommon picture of her child Malti Marie’s face in a photograph of the one-year-old receiving blessings at Siddhivinayak Temple in Mumbai. The woman was carrying a small circlet over her child hair, and carrying a onesie with white embroidery. Chopra was draped in a purple scarf over an extended clear piece of blue embroidered material, holding Malti in her arms subsequent to an altar coated in flowers.
“MM’s first journey to India needed to be accomplished with Shree Siddhivinayak’s blessings,” Chopra wrote within the captioning, hashtagging the photographs #HanumanJayanti #GanpatiBappaMorya.
The actress shares Malti along with her husband Nick Jonas, who joined her on the opening of the Nita Mukesh Ambani Cultural Centre (NMACC) in Mumbai this week, the place she wore a shocking ensemble by Amit Aggarwal.
Whereas in India, she’s additionally been doing a press tour for her Amazon Prime collection, Citadel, together with co-star Richard Madden.
The star lately instructed Dax Shepard on his Armchair Knowledgeable podcast how she acquired to the choice to have kids in her later 30s when she had a youthful husband. They welcomed Malti through surrogate in 2022.
“I all the time knew I needed youngsters, which was one of many large causes I did not wish to date Nick at the moment ‘trigger I used to be like, ‘I do not know if he desires youngsters at 25,” at the moment,” she defined. “However I’ve all the time needed youngsters. I really like youngsters.”
She then mentioned how she determined to freeze her eggs in her early thirties, which she felt freed up time for her profession.
“I might proceed on an bold warpath that I needed to realize,” she mentioned. “I needed to get to a sure place in my profession. I additionally hadn’t met the individual I needed to have kids with or I did not see that. That is anxiety-inducing. I used to be 35, and my mother’s an OBGYN who’s like, ‘Simply do it.’”
Chopra added, “I inform everybody to [freeze their eggs]. My mother had mentioned [to do it as many times as you need] to me, and I did do it for myself as properly.”

Aimée Lutkin is the weekend editor at ELLE.com. Her writing has appeared in Jezebel, Glamour, Marie Claire and extra. Her first ebook, The Lonely Hunter, shall be launched by Dial Press in February 2022.