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PRIYANKA Chopra revealed she was left “devastated and hopeless” after a botched nose surgery had her unable to recognize herself.

She was nicknamed "Plastic Chopra" after the operation.

A year after the actress was crowned Miss World 2000, she developed a “lingering head cold” that led to the need for an operation.

The 38-year-old revealed in her new memoir, Unfinished, which released on Tuesday, that what she thought wa a “very bad sinus infenction” ended up being much worse.

Priyanka wrote, according to People: ”I was having trouble breathing. This is a problem someone with asthma can't ignore.”

After seeing a doctor, she learned she had a “polyp in her nasal cavity” that had to be “surgically removed.”

Despite supposedly being a routine procedure, there were complications during the polypectomy.

The Quantico actress revealed: ”While shaving off the polyp, the doctor also accidentally shaved the bridge of my nose and the bridge collapsed. 

“When it was time to remove the bandages and the condition of my nose was revealed, Mom and I were horrified.

“My original nose was gone. My face looked completely different. I wasn't me anymore.”

The 38-year-old, who married her husband Nick Jonas in 2018, admitted she felt extremely down and unlike herself afterward.

She said: “Every time I looked in the mirror, a stranger looked back at me, and I didn't think my sense of self or my self-esteem would ever recover from the blow."

Priyanka had just shot into the spotlight in late 2000 with her big Miss World win, and she immediately started gaining further fame afterward with modeling and acting gigs.

The media nicknamed her “Plastic Chopra” after the surgery because of the obvious change to her nose, and Priyanka said it’s followerd her throughout her “entire professional life.”

Even though she was being called names, the starlet decided that there were some things she wanted to keep private and that she had to “draw a line” between her personal and professional life from the start. 

In her memoir, she explained: "I am an entertainer. That's what I've signed on to do, and that's what I love doing. I will say my lines, dance my dance, hit my mark. 

“I'll do my best to make you laugh, and I'll do my best to make you cry, but just because I'm a public person doesn't mean everything about my life has to be public knowledge. 

“I get to choose what I share and when I share it.”

The Bollywood-turned-Hollywood star dealt with having a nose she didn’t recognize for years before she chose to do something about it.

After having multiple corrective surgeries, Priyanka said her “nose normalized,” though it still looked different from her pre-popectomy nose and took a while to get “accustomed” to it.

She wrote: “Now when I look in the mirror, I am no longer surprised; I've made peace with this slightly different me. This is my face. This is my body. I might be flawed, but I am me."

The Baywatch star previously told the outlet that she was the victim of severe bullying in high school, to the point where she was forced to leave the United States and return to India.

"I took it very personally," she said. "Deep inside, it starts gnawing at you. I went into a shell. I was like, 'Don't look at me. I just want to be invisible.'"

After initially moving to the states at age 12, Priyanka stayed with relatives in New York City, Indianapolis, and Newtown, Massachusetts.

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The actress revealed that the hate became crippling after arriving on the East Coast.

Though she reportedly did her best to ignore the bullying, her classmates' slandering took a toll on her mental health and led her to "[break] up with America."

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