Priyanka Chopra Apologises for Featuring in Skin Lightening Cream Ad

Priyanka Chopra Apologises for Featuring in Skin Lightening Cream Ad

- Actress Priyanka Chopra has been accused of being inappropriate after featuring in a skin-lightening cream advertisement

- The 38-year-old actress, who once had insecurities because of her skin tone, has however apologised for being in such a project

- Chopra was the 2000 Miss India winner and was later crowned Miss World in the same year

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Hollywood actress Priyanka Chopra has apologised after featuring in an advertisement that fans have deemed inappropriate. In the commercial, the actress could be seen losing her boyfriend to a lighter skinned woman and only gets him back after using the skin-lightening cream.

The entertainment industry has been looking down on people with darker skin tones and the star’s participation in the commercial only makes her tone deaf to what’s happening.

Actress Priyanka Chopra apologises for featuring in a skin-lightening cream commercial
Actress Priyanka Chopra revealed she once had self esteem issues based on how dark her skin tone is. Photo Credit: Priyanka Chopra/Instagram.
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However, while speaking to the Guardian publication, the 38-year-old said apologised and said regrets doing that. She said:

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‘’I cannot go back and change what I did, but I can apologise and I do so sincerely.’’

The star also revealed that doing that advert is one of her missteps in her flourishing career and that watching it took her back to the insecurities she had as a little girl.

‘’When I saw the ad, I felt sad. I saw myself through my 13-year-old eyes when I was making concoctions in my bathroom trying to lighten my skin tone. I would never go around saying you need to become fair and that is not the only way you will be beautiful because I do not endorse that,’’ she said.

However, people who found the ad as distasteful have started digging into her archived interviews where she largely talked about loving herself as a dark-skinned person.

Previously, the beautiful actress got married to the handsome artiste Nick Jonas in a huge colourful wedding.

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After the commercial, there have been people who have called her a hypocrite for saying one thing and doing the other.

Notably, the star participated in pageant competitions in her home country in India where she son Miss India in 2000 and was later crowned Miss World in that same year.

Despite the two wins, the model disclosed that she never believed she was beautiful enough because of her skin tone.

In other Briefly.co.za news, Priyanka Chopra has been promoting her memoir and recently revealed in an interview that she suffered a botched nose job when she was younger. According to the star, the nose job was intended to remove a polyp (a small growth) from the bridge of her nose to aid in her breathing and alleviate her asthma symptoms.

Chopra said that when she saw the results of the surgery she was taken aback by how different her nose looked. In an exclusive interview with Entertainment Tonight, the star described how the surgery had gone wrong:

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"While shaving off the polyp, the doctor also accidentally shaved the bridge of my nose and the bridge collapsed."

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