Where is Priyanka Chopra’s restaurant?
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PRIYANKA Chopra is an Indian actress, model, singer, and businesswoman.
When she is not behind the camera or at her with her family, she can typically be found at her popular restaurant.
2 Priyanka Chopra opened Sona in March 2021 Credit: Getty
Where is Priyanka Chopra’s restaurant?
Priyanka Chopra, 39, opened her Indian restaurant Sona in March 2021 alongside restaurateurs Maneesh Goyal and David Rabin.
“Sona is the very embodiment of timeless India and the flavours I grew up with,” Chopra wrote about her restaurant on Instagram.
Sona is described as a “trendy restaurant” that spotlights “reimagined Indian dishes and desserts,” they also serve cocktails and brunch.
“I wanted to create the Indochine of Indian food,” Sona’s interior designer Melissa Bowers told Forbes. “A place where you want to entertain, spend your birthdays and make memories.
“Obviously people relate pastels to Art Deco, but for me it was about soothing colors,” she added.
“The color we used was so that the food would shine and the space would be clean and inviting. My biggest thing in design is that nothing needs to be literal. I think sometimes people are distracted by the design.”
The restaurant is located at 36 E 20th St in New York City and requires reservations.
What is Sona’s menu?
Sona’s menu includes a number of popular Indian cuisines.
Some of their dishes include:
India House’s Butter Chicken
Malvani Prawn Curry
Kofta Korma
Cashew Chicken Meatballs Tamarind BBQ Lamb Chops
They also have appetizers and seafood options available.
2 It is located in Manhattan Credit: Alamy
Who is Priyanka Chopra?
Over the years, Chopra has been seen in a number of productions and is famously known for her roles in Baywatch, Don 2, Mary Kom, The White Tiger, and Quantico.
She has also been seen in a number of Jonas Brothers music videos alongside her husband, Nick Jonas, 29.
Chopra and Jonas tied the knot in 2018 and shocked fans in January 2022 after it was revealed that they had welcomed their first child together through surrogacy.
Chopra has an estimated net worth of $70million with a reported annual salary of $10million, according to Celebrity Net Worth.
Priyanka Chopra talks Nick Jonas breakup rumors after Instagram name change
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Priyanka Chopra is finally addressing fans who believe there’s trouble in paradise for her marriage to Nick Jonas, as she changed her name from @PriyankaChopraJonas to @PriyankaChopra on Instagram last November.
Describing the online reaction as a “professional hazard” given their careers, Chopra said she found the assumption based on a social media handle disheartening.
“It’s a very vulnerable feeling, actually, that if I post a picture, everything that’s behind me in that picture is going to be zoomed in on, and people are going to speculate,” she told Vanity Fair for their February 2022 issue.
“Because of the noise of social media, because of the prevalence that it has in our lives, I think it seems a lot larger than it is. I think that we give it a lot more credence in real life, and I don’t think it needs that.”
All is well between Priyanka Chopra and Nick Jonas, who married in 2018. Getty Images for John Varvatos
Chopra was disheartened by fans who assumed her marriage was in trouble. Getty Images for Paramount Pictu
Jonas also addressed the speculation surrounding their relationship and navigating love while under public scrutiny.
“We both know that public life is something that comes with what we do,” he said. “But we’ve set real boundaries around our personal lives, our privacy, and worked really hard to create that little safe haven for ourselves with our friends and family.”
Chopra added that she’s become more introverted since being in the public eye.
Chopra has become more introverted since finding fame. Getty Images for Booking.com
“I’m starting to protect myself a lot more because I realize how much [the entertainment business] takes out of you,” she explained.
“It takes a part of your soul, constantly trying to make sure that you say the right thing, do the right thing, dress the right way, not make a mistake, not trip because the whole world is going to watch. Or not fall when you’re walking up on a red carpet or say something wrong or have a bad f–king day.”
Why couples like Nick Jonas and Priyanka Chopra choose surrogacy
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With Priyanka Chopra and Nick Jonas’ announcement Friday that they had welcomed a new baby daughter via surrogacy, they became the latest celebrity couple to employ medical technology and to hire another woman to carry their child.
Chopra, 39, and Jonas, 29, were upfront about the fact that they used a surrogate, probably knowing there would be questions because the actress hadn’t been seen looking pregnant over the past nine months or so, but they weren’t forthcoming with an explanation for why they went that route.
“We are overjoyed to confirm that we have welcomed a baby via surrogate,” on Instagram. The Daily Mail reported that the baby was was born prematurely at 27 weeks so she’s still in the hospital. The Daily Mail also cited sources who said the couple’s busy schedules “had gotten in the way of their family planning” so they went the surrogacy route.
In anticipating questions about the surrogacy or the baby’s birth, the couple, who married in 2018, sidestepped them. “We respectfully ask for privacy during this special time as we focus on our family,” the statement said.
Such questions about the surrogacy are inevitable, and the answer could be any one of the top reasons that people choose surrogacy. According to Healthline, the reasons people choose surrogates include:
— Health issues that prevent a woman from getting pregnant or carrying a pregnancy to term.
— Infertility issues that prevent couples from either getting or staying pregnant, like recurrent miscarriages.
— Same-sex couples who wish to have children.
— Single people who want to have biological children.
Healthline also pointed out that surrogacy usually is costly and can bring legal and emotional complexities. It almost always involves high-priced in vitro fertilization procedures, searching for and hiring a woman to carry the baby, paying for her medical care and hiring lawyers and signing contracts to make sure there are no future disputes about custody. The Guardian said having a baby via surrogacy can cost around $150,000, and insurance companies don’t cover many of the expenses associated with it.
Kim Kardashian has been open about the medical condition that made it dangerous for her to carry her four pregnancies to term. She went through pregnancies with her first two children, North and Saint, but her deliveries were complicated by placenta accreta, a condition wherein the placenta attaches too deeply into the uterine wall. The condition is known to put mothers and newborn babies at risk of bleeding to death.
For that reason, Kardashian and her ex-husband Kanye West chose to hire surrogates for their third and fourth children, Chicago and Psalm.
Other celebrities who have chosen surrogacy include, according to Insider, Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban, Amber Heard, Anderson Cooper, Jimmy Fallon and “Grey’s Anatomy” star Ellen Pompeo.
Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick’s twin daughters, Lorette and Tabitha, were both born via surrogate in 2009 after the couple reportedly struggled to get pregnant after their first child was born, according to Insider. Neil Patrick Harris and David Burkta’s 11-year-old twins, daughter Harper Grace and son Gideon Scott, were born with the help of two different women, as Burtka said in a 2002 interview.
“There was an egg donor, a wonderful woman who was anonymous,” Burtka said. “We took two of our best guys and implanted them into her eggs, two different eggs.” That way, they don’t know which twin was biologically theirs, he explained. Then, they used a different woman to be surrogate.
As surrogacy has helped couples with medical or other needs, The Guardian reported in 2019 on a growing trend among Hollywood stars and other wealthy people — choosing surrogacy because it’s a more convenient way to have children and better fits into a woman’s busy schedule.
The Guardian described how a growing number of women were visiting the upscale Pacific Fertility Center in Los Angeles for “social” surrogacy. The women want to have babies that are biologically their own, but they don’t want to carry them. The Guardian said there is no medical reason for them to use a surrogate.
“They just choose not to be pregnant, so they conceive babies through IVF and then hire another woman to gestate and give birth to their baby,” The Guardian said.
The Guardian quoted Dr. Vicken Sahakian, chief medical officer at the Pacific Fertility Center, on why he didn’t have any ethical concerns about social surrogacy. Sahakian, whose patients have included Hollywood stars and other affluent clients, said: “I don’t have issues with it. If you’re a 28-year-old model or an actor and you get pregnant, you’re going to lose your job – you will. If you want to use a surrogate, I’ll help you.”
Sahakian agreed that “money talks” when it comes to social surrogacy. He also said there are emotional benefits to the mother being pregnant. “The bonding. I understand that, and from experience I can say that most women love to be pregnant,” Sahakian said. “But a lot of women don’t want to be pregnant and lose a year of their careers.”
While surrogacy has become accepted in celebrity world, controversy occasionally erupts. That’s what happened last March when the actor Alec Baldwin and his influencer wife, Hilaria Baldwin, announced the arrival of a new baby daughter just five months after Hilaria had given birth to a son.
The Baldwins initially were cagey about how they suddenly acquired a new child. Their silence struck many as surprising given that Hilaria Baldwin so frequently shares photos and personal details about her pregnancies, miscarriages and children’s lives on social media. Alec Baldwin even told an inquiring mind on his Instagram account to “shut the (expletive) up and mind your own business.”
The couple have since acknowledged using a surrogate for their sixth child, Lucia, and have promoted the agency that helped them on Hilaria Baldwin’s Instagram. Hilaria Baldwin also has posted photos of her nursing her two infants at once and now often refers to them as her “twins.”
NJ’s Nick Jonas, Priyanka Chopra Welcome Baby
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New Jersey’s Nick Jonas is a dad.
The Wyckoff native and Priyanka Chopra have welcomed their first child with the help of a surrogate. The couple made the announcement in a post on Chopra’s Instagram on Friday.
“We respectfully ask for privacy during this special time as we focus on our family. Thank you so much,” Chopra writes in the post.
The couple had been hoping to have a child for some time according to an interview with Vanity Fair in Feb. 2022.
When asked about having children Chopra said: “They’re a big part of our desire for the future. By God’s grace, when it happens, it happens,” adding that she and Jonas were “not too busy to practice.”
The pair married in Dec. 2018.
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Nick Jonas, Priyanka Chopra Welcome Their First Child Via Surrogate
Priyanka Chopra and Nick Jonas attend the John Varvatos Villa One Tequila Launch Party on Aug. 29, 2019, in New York City. (Photo: Craig Barritt via Getty Images)
Nick Jonas and Priyanka Chopra are now parents.
Both confirmed the happy news in a message posted to their separate Instagram accounts on Friday.
“We are overjoyed to confirm that we have welcomed a baby via surrogate,” the two wrote in their joint message. “We respectfully ask for privacy during this special time as we focus on our family.”
Chopra recently spoke of the couple’s desire to have children in a Vanity Fair profile published last week.
“They’re a big part of our desire for the future,” the actor said. “By God’s grace, when it happens, it happens.”
In another recent interview, Chopra joked that she wanted to have a “cricket team” of kids.
“I do want children, as many as I can have,” she told the U.K.’s Sunday Times before slightly walking back her comment. “A cricket team? I’m not so sure.”
Jonas and Chopra made a notable appearance together at the 2017 Met Gala, though things only became romantic in 2018 after the musician slid into the former Miss World 2000’s DMs.
The two married in December that same year in two lavish wedding ceremonies, which included Chopra wearing a 75-foot veil that five people helped to carry.
Though the couple have been married for years now, Chopra recently sparked divorce rumors in November after she dropped “Jonas” from her Instagram handle.
Priyanka Chopra and Nick Jonas attend Fashion Awards 2021 on Nov. 29, 2021 in London, England. (Photo: Samir Hussein via Getty Images)
The famous couple shut down the rumors hours later when Chopra responded to a video of Jonas lifting weights with a flirty comment. Since then, the two have shared several cozy photos of themselves on each of their Instagram accounts.
In the same Vanity Fair profile in which Chopra expressed her desire to have children, she also addressed the downsides of social media, especially as it relates to her relationship.
“It’s a very vulnerable feeling, actually, that if I post a picture, everything that’s behind me in that picture is going to be zoomed in on, and people are going to speculate,” Chopra told the magazine. “It’s just a professional hazard.”
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“Because of the noise of social media, because of the prevalence that it has in our lives, I think it seems a lot larger than it is,” she added. “I think that we give it a lot more credence in real life, and I don’t think it needs that.”
This article originally appeared on HuffPost and has been updated.
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