Priyanka Chopra Jonas A Woman In Love
VOGUE India|January 2019

He proposed after how many weeks? But as actor Priyanka Chopra and pop idol Nick Jonas, tell it, their love story was two years (and many, many text messages) in the making. Abby Aguirre gets the story.

Abby Aguirre
Priyanka Chopra Jonas A Woman In Love

The first time Nick Jonas met Priyanka Chopra, he got down on one knee.

Jonas tells me the story on a sunny afternoon in Las Vegas, in an expansive suite at the Wynn. He has just flown in to meet Chopra, who has been here a few days for a charity event. The newly engaged couple haven’t seen each other in weeks—not since a trip to India, where, by the time you read this, they will have wed in a pink sandstone and-marble palace in Rajasthan.

By some miracle of genetics (or dermatology), Jonas, 26, has the same fresh face that graced the cover of Tiger Beat 10 years ago, but his once-wavy hair is now cropped short, and even black long sleeves cannot hide the small mountain ranges that are his biceps. Though their age difference has been a point of obsession in the press (Chopra, at 36, is 10 years older), Jonas seems the more senior and serious of the two. He moves around with a quiet, clandestine intention, as though, in addition to ordering room service—two turkey burgers, no buns—he might be looking for his house slippers. (“I call him Old Man Jonas,” Chopra says when I note this.)

Seated primly on the couch in a mustard-and-black floral sheath by Christian Dior and black heels, Chopra is chatty, exuberant—and psychotically pretty. Sophia Loren-in-her heydey pretty. Take-her-to-a-Dodgers-game-and-you-will-end-up-in-the-owner’s-box pretty. (That happened on their third date.)

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