Before she won Miss World 2000 and rose to global stardom, Priyanka Chopra was a teenager experimenting with her style. The actress recently revealed that her love for her belly button piercing once prompted her to re-pierce it herself – in the back of a taxi.
Before she won Miss World 2000 and rose to global stardom, Priyanka Chopra was a teenager experimenting with her style. The actress recently revealed that her love for her belly button piercing once prompted her to re-pierce it herself – in the back of a taxi.Recalling her teenage style, Priyanka said she was not particularly interested in fashion at that time but loved experimenting with her own sense of style. “I wasn’t really a fashion girl. I didn’t grow up knowing fashion or having anything to do with fashion, but I did have a relationship with fashion,” she said on Going Rogue.
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“In the 90s in high school, I was that quintessential 90s girl — baggy jeans, holey belly buttons, and crop tops.”She also revealed the unusual way she re-pierced her belly button. “I got my belly button pierced in the back of the taxi. That’s what we were doing at the time,” she said.
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During the conversation, the host also mentioned a moment from Priyanka’s Miss World 2000 journey when she used the ‘Namaste’ gesture on stage to secretly hold her dress in place.When asked if she had other quick fixes for fashion emergencies, the actress shared some of her favorite tricks.
“I chew gum to hold up my shirt just to take a quick photo,” she said.“One time, when I was getting out of my car and in, my shirt was coming off, so I put gum on it and it stuck together.”Even a simple bandage can double as fashion tape in emergency situations, she added. “If you don’t have double-sided tape, take a bandage and make it into a circle.”
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“I have never modeled before Miss India.”
Priyanka also spoke about how overwhelmed she felt entering the world of beauty pageants as a teenager without any modeling experience.“When I participated in Miss India, I had never worked as a model before. This was my first time participating in a fashion show, walking on the runway and facing all these models who have so much experience,” she said.The actress explained that she was only 17 or 18 years old at the time, and suddenly found herself in a completely unfamiliar environment. “I was a teenager from a small town, so it was a huge change for a young girl who didn’t know what the industry was like and suddenly found herself in the spotlight.”According to Priyanka, the intense environment of pageants forced her to mature quickly. “I learned quickly. I had to grow up quickly because you’re not supposed to make any mistakes in a beauty pageant. You’re expected to do everything perfectly, be eloquent and a good speaker. So I immediately tried to become the best version of myself. Everyone around me was so polished.”
“Sometimes you have to fake it until you make it.”
Priyanka also spoke about competing in Miss World in the UK and how different the cultural environment is.“The Miss World pageant I attended was in the UK, and it was very different from the way America views its beauty pageants. It was different culturally as well. I grew up very quickly and learned how to ‘fake it til you make it’ sometimes. It was the only way to not look like I was dying inside in front of millions of people.”She added that the experience taught her an important lesson about confidence and self-confidence.“Sometimes when you walk into a room and it feels difficult, you have to talk to yourself and say: Either you belong in this room and people will see you, or you will be invisible. Both are good – but you have to decide which side of the room you want to be on.”
