Priyanka Chopra Jonasis appreciating all the special moments being a mom brings.
Appearing onTODAY’sspring cover, theCitadelactress, 40, talks about her new understanding of “work-life balance” since becoming a mom to daughterMalti Marie, 15 months.
“After that, I’m not available. We do bath time, storytime, bedtime,“she tells the outlet. “And then it’s our time (for me and Nick), whether we … have friends over or just sit together and watch a movie.”
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The actress and husbandNick Jonas, 30, leaned heavily on each other after Malti was born and subsequently spentover 100 days in the NICU.
Chopra Jonas continues, “She was born, and from the moment she took her first breath to now, she’s never been without one of us, ever.”
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“I realized very, very early that I did not have the luxury to be scared or to be weak becauseshewas scared and weak. And I had to be her strength as her mom,” Chopra Jonas explains. “I needed to make her feel at every given moment that she’s not alone … that we’ve got her.”
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“[In the NICU], you know your child is alive because you can see their heartbeat (on the monitor). I couldn’t sleep for days because now suddenly she was home without a monitor,” she shares. “I used to put my ear on her chest. I would wake up every couple of minutes just to see if she was OK. For weeks, this went on.”
Chopra Jonas says that motherhood “just makes me want to conquer the world.”
“When I wake up and do a million things, I can do them really well, because I know that I come back home to my family,” she says. “And that’s such a priority to me now.”
source: people.com
