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 The former Miss World,
Hollywood and Bollywood star wrote memoir
"Unfinished", choosing a title she says reflects
what she still wants to do with her career.
"It was more sort of introspective for me and
looking at my journey now at this point in life
- where I'm content and I'm confident and I'm
not insecure about my past," Chopra Jonas told
Reuters in an interview.
"I was ready to sort of dissect my life with
having the time during quarantine...A lot of us
constantly strive to be ... the best versions of
ourselves and trying is all we can do. We are
all in different forms of unfinished and work in
progress."
"Unfinished", out on Thursday, looks back on
Chopra Jonas' childhood and teenage years in
India and the United States respectively, her
return to her homeland where she won a national
beauty contest, a pageant, she explains in her
book, her brother convinced their mother to
enter her into.
She went on to be crowned Miss World in 2000, a
win that launched her acting career.
"My pageants were a springboard for me, not just
for my career, but as a woman," she said.
"But at the same time, I'm also someone who
believes that women shouldn't be judged
predominantly or on the way they look ... And I
don't think I would do it again."
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 After success in Bollywood,
Chopra Jonas, who is married to pop star Nick
Jonas, was cast in U.S. television drama
"Quantico". "I don't think it
was conceptually normal for American film makers
of movies or TV shows to think that the lead of
a mainstream show ... could be Indian," she
said.
"So it really became my quest to sort of create
those opportunities for myself and other people
that looked like me."
Chopra Jonas, who will star in "The Matrix 4",
is currently on screens in Netflix movie "The
White Tiger" about the aspirations of a poor
Indian driver. She also executive produced the
film based on the Man Booker Prize-winning book.
"It's really exciting for me as a producer to be
able to tell stories that I want to see honestly
and to tell stories that create a larger table
in ... Hollywood," she said.
(Reporting by Sarah Mills; Editing by
Marie-Louise Gumuchian)
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