At
a
time
when
the
relevance
of
beauty
pageants
is
being
reconsidered,
Priyanka
Chopra
has
a
different
take
on
it.
In
her
recent
interview
with
UK's
Tatler
magazine,
the
Quantico
actress
defended
beauty
pageants
and
said
that
participating
in
them
gave
her
great
confidence.
The
magazine
quoted
the
former
beauty
queen
as
saying,
"It's
something
that
I'm
extremely
proud
of.
It
gave
me
a
trampoline
to
my
acting
career.
It
gave
me
a
sense
of
self,
a
sense
of
confidence
to
be
able
to
stand
in
front
of
heads
of
state,
to
be
able
to
speak
in
front
of
media
from
around
the
world,
and
actually
know
what
I'm
talking
about."
Priyanka
won
the
Miss
World
crown
in
2002
and
soon,
made
her
debut
in
Bollywood
with
Sunny
Deol-Preity
Zinta's
The
Hero:
Love
Story
of
a
Spy
in
2003.
While
speaking
with
Tatler
magazine,
the
diva
also
credited
her
parents
for
being
the
biggest
influence
in
her
life.
Priyanka
was
quoted
as
saying,
"All
my
mother's
sisters
were
academics
and
my
dad
was
a
free-thinking
creative,
a
musician
and
an
artist,
as
well
as
a
surgeon.
My
grandmother
-
my
dad's
mum
-
always
used
to
say,
about
me,
'Who's
going
to
marry
her?
She
can't
cook.'
And
my
dad
would
say,
'I'll
send
a
cook
with
her.
She
never
needs
to
go
into
the
kitchen.'
My
mum
didn't
know
how
to
cook
when
she
got
married.
My
dad
taught
her
how.
And
he
taught
her
everything
he
liked
to
eat.
Clever
man."
Earlier
in
an
interview
with
Hindustan
Times,
the
Quantico
star
opened
up
about
her
career
in
Hollywood
and
said,
When
I
went
to
America,
there
wasn't
a
precedence.
I
didn't
have
a
road
map
to
follow
because
there
was
no
one
who
had
done
it
before.
I
had
to
figure
it
out,
walk
into
rooms,
introduce
myself,
say
'I
am
an
Indian
actor,
my
name
is
Priyanka
Chopra,
these
are
the
kind
of
films
I
want
to
do'.
I
demanded
playing
leading
ladies,
instead
of
having
parts
which
were
the
stereotype
of
what
a
Bollywood
actor
would
usually
get.
Those
also
came
to
me,
but
I
was
very
clear
about
what
I
wanted
to
do."