Priyanka Chopra, 37, discusses starting a family with husband Nick Jonas, 27

They married in December 2018 after a whirlwind romance and actress Priyanka Chopra has spoken about her dreams of starting a family with Nick Jonas. 

Taking part in a fashion shoot for Tatler, Priyanka, 37, also spoke about her relationship with singer Nick, 27, admitting relationships take work. 

Talking about baby plans, she said: ‘Right now, this year’s really packed for me in terms of the work that I’m doing and the work that I’ve taken on. 

‘But having a family is very important to me and it always has been. It is something that I definitely want to do and I’m hoping that whenever God wills it, at the right, opportune time, it’ll happen.’

She said she has to prioritise her marriage above all else, making sure she and her just-as-busy husband still see one another regularly. 

‘We don’t go more than two/three weeks without seeing each other. That’s a rule,’ she said. 

‘It’s too hard otherwise, and you’ve got to work on the relationship, to prioritise it.’

Priyanka credits her ‘progressive parents with helping her to become the person she is today. 

She said: ‘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.’

Priyanka famously came second in the Miss India competition and was crowned Miss World in 2000,.

And she said she believes that beauty pageants still have merit and are not in conflict with her avowed feminist credentials, despite how they have fallen out of favour in the West, and are criticised for being anachronistic and reductive – too sexist and Trumpian.

She said: ‘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.’

See the full feature in the May issue of Tatler available via digital download and newsstands on Thursday 2nd April. https://www.tatler.com/