When Priyanka Chopra wanted to keep the abandoned baby girl but she couldn’t, here’s why

Actor Priyanka Chopra Jonas and her singer husband Nick Jonas welcomed a baby via surrogacy in January. Fans were super elated with the news; however, it is not clear if they welcomed a baby boy or a girl even though the reports mention the couple becoming parents to a baby girl. Apart from this, did you know that Priyanka actually wanted to keep an abandoned baby girl but her mother refused to keep her? During her adolescent age, Priyanka found out that her mother Madhu Chopra had a newborn baby in her arms. Priyanka Chopra desperately wanted to keep the child with her; however, her mother said that they couldn’t as it needed plenty of legal paperwork.

PeeCee wrote in her book Unfinished, “My grandmother, who had come to live with us when Sid was born, was up and speaking in a low voice to my mother, who seemed to be racing around the house. Groggy with sleep, I got up to see what was going on and found Mom in the kitchen cradling a newborn in her arms. She told me that after the delivery when she’d returned to her car parked on the road outside the hospital, she’d heard the sound of a baby crying. To her complete shock, while the rain was coming down in torrents someone had abandoned a newborn girl under the vehicle. That night, I desperately wanted for us to keep the baby, this impossibly tiny thing swaddled in my brother’s clothes. Gently, my mother explained that we couldn’t.”

 

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The Bajirao Mastani actor further added, “There was plenty of legal paperwork that would have to be completed, but I was unaware of that at the time, focused as I was on holding the baby snug in my arms as we drove through the stormy night to the home of that waiting couple. I will never forget the looks on their faces, how the woman fell to her knees in gratitude, how they both cried at the miracle of a baby showing up out of the blue, in the driving rain, during the festival Janmashtami.”

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