Priyanka Chopra on Marrying Nick Jonas: 'You've Got to Kiss a Lot of Frogs Until You Find Your Prince'

Mar. 15, 2025

Priyanka Chopra and Nick Jonas in Beverly Hills, California, on Aug. 13, 2024.Photo:Amy Sussman/Getty

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Priyanka Choprais opening up about her journey to love.

Speaking in a new cover interview forHarper’s BazaarUK’s March issue, the actress spoke about marrying her husbandNick Jonas, with whom she shares 3-year-old daughterMalti.

“I wouldn’t have married [Nick] if he didn’t tick all the right boxes,” said Chopra, 42. “You have to look for someone who respects you. Respect is different from love and affection … You’ve got to kiss a lot of frogs until you find your prince.”

As she explained on theArmchair Expertpodcast, “A lot of the pattern in my relationships was me feeling gaslit because I gave that kind of power to the people that I was with, where I was like, ‘You come first,’ " adding that she got “clarity on what I needed” before her relationship with Jonas.

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Priyanka Chopra for the March 2025 issue ofHarper’s BazaarUK.Courtesy of Harper’s BazaarUK/Alexi Lubomirski

Courtesy of Harper’s BazaarUK/Alexi Lubomirski

Chopra and Jonas first interacted in 2016 when the“Jealous”artist reached out to her on X, suggestingthey go on a date.

“I’m hearing from a few mutual friends that we should meet,” he wrote.

During her appearance on theArmchair Expertpodcast, Chopra revealed she was near the end of a “tumultuous relationship” when theJonas Brotherssinger messaged her, adding she “didn’t want to engage as much at the time.”

However, the pair kept in touch through “random texts” andmet in person for the first timein 2017 at theVanity FairOscarsparty.

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Priyanka Chopra on the March 2025 cover ofHarper’s BazaarUK.Courtesy of Harper’s BazaarUK/Alexi Lubomirski

Jonas toldVoguefor a joint interview published in December 2018 that he got down on one knee at the same event during the couple’s first meeting.

“This is in front of abunchof people,” he recalled at the time. “I say, ‘You’re real. Where have you been all my life?’ Like,loud.”

The duo were then spotted out together on multiple occasions, with PEOPLE confirming on July 27, 2018, thatthey were engaged.

Jonas and Chopra latertied the knotin India, on Dec. 1, 2018. They went on to welcome their first child together, daughter Malti, via surrogate on Jan. 15, 2022.

The March 2025 issue ofHarper’s Bazaaris on sale beginning Thursday, Feb. 6.

source: people.com