Every time Nick Jonas and Priyanka Chopra have opened up about their relationship
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- Nick Jonas and Priyanka Chopra Jonas met in 2017 and got married in 2018.
- Jonas said he knew he was going to marry his now-wife after they went on just a few dates.
- Chopra Jonas said she's glad to have chosen Jonas to be part of her family.
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In 2019, at Tina Brown's 10th Annual Women in the World Summit, Chopra said that she didn't always think her relationship with Jonas was going to end in marriage.
She said, "I've known him for two years. I didn't think that this is what it [would've] turned out to be, and maybe that's my fault, I judged a book by its cover. When I actually started dating Nick, he surprised me so much."
"[He's] so good for me because he grounds me so much. I'm a wild child, I do whatever I want whenever I want and he always supports me," the actress added.
She also shared that she calls him "Old Man Jonas" because he's "such an old soul."
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Jonas said he knew that he and Chopra Jonas were meant to be after he saw her walk into the Chateau Marmont in Los Angeles, California, for one of their first few dates.
He told Vogue in 2018, "She walks into the Chateau, and I feel an overwhelming sense of peace and understanding about this next chapter of my life."
He said that a few days later, he called his mom and said he was going to marry her.
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When speaking to Entertainment Tonight in August 2019, Chopra Jonas said Jonas thinks she's the most beautiful in the mornings, right after she wakes up.
"It's actually really annoying, but he insists on looking at my face when I wake up. I'm just like, 'Wait one minute. Let me just go get a little mascara on, let me put on my moisturizer.' I'm, like, sleepy-eyed face right now, but he's just ... it's amazing and super sweet," she said, adding that it's "really wonderful" but "a little awkward."
When asked when Chopra Jonas thinks Jonas is the most attractive, she said, "All the time. All the freaking time."
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Speaking with Insider in September 2019, Jonas said he's "really grateful" to have Chopra Jonas by his side, especially when it comes to managing their busy schedules.
"Our schedule this early on in our marriage was kind of unexpected, the tour extending as long as it has, but she's the best teammate in all that. The support that I feel from her gives me all the encouragement and strength, in addition to the fans being so amazing, that I need to get up there and do my thing every night," he added.
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Not every Hollywood couple is as open as Jonas and Chopra Jonas — but Chopra Jonas told People in October 2018 that it feels "natural" to talk about her relationship.
"This is the first time I was comfortable with being with someone who is such an incredible partner, so it just felt natural," she added.
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In 2018, Jonas told USA Today that he and Chopra Jonas are always real with each other.
"You have to be honest with your other half. That's where the beauty of a real relationship is, being able to be your authentic self. I have that in my life now," he told the publication.
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These two definitely know how to keep the romance alive, even during the busiest of times … like the night before their wedding.
"The night before we were getting married I was doing a bridesmaids' hangout in my room and when we opened my room to come in there was a lane of flowers all the way with 18, 19 gifts with little notes on each one, like, 'I will protect you,' 'I will always keep you safe … ' Everyone was crying," Chopra Jonas told Extra TV in 2020.
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Jonas and Chopra Jonas have some core values in common, like their love for their families, which is one reason Jonas loves her so much.
He told "The Today Show" in 2019 that it was their "love for family and faith and the importance of being connected to those that are always going to be there for you" that really strengthened and cemented their relationship.
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Chopra Jonas told India Today in 2019 about how Jonas knew she was busy working on a movie, so he handled "the logistics" of wedding planning.
She explained, "So he used to sit at home while I was on the set and decide who is sitting where, seating charts, and rooming charts and he would do all of that so that I could focus on the movie."
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Jonas said that, if anything, marriage has made his relationship with Chopra Jonas even stronger.
He told Entertainment Tonight in 2019, "It was kind of an instant thing. I knew once we locked in together that I had a partner for life and a teammate, someone I could walk through the good times and the bad times with, and that was the key."
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Chopra Jonas told Hindustan Times in 2019 that she and Jonas have a major rule: They don't go more than two or three weeks without seeing each other.
She explained, "Wherever in the world we are, we keep in touch, and video call all the time. It's important to make the effort to have the other person involved in your life. We do that."
Chopra Jonas said she also doesn't see why they can't continue to have busy professional lives and a thriving marriage.
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On the one-year anniversary of the day they met, Jonas wrote about Chopra Jonas on Instagram, saying how "honored" he is to be married to her.
"One year ago today I went to go see Beauty and the Beast at the Hollywood Bowl with a group of friends. One of those friends was the woman that would become my best friend, my confidant, my muse, my beautiful wife," he wrote. "I am so grateful for our journey together so far. You make me smile every day and you inspire me to be the best version of myself. I am honored to be your husband. I love you."
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In October 2019, Chopra Jonas told E! News that she loves that Jonas is the family she chose.
"Every single day when I wake up I'm like, 'Oh, I have a home. Like, this is my home. This person is my home.' And I didn't know that feeling outside of my parents. Like, it's like, 'Oh, this is the family that I have chosen.' It's family," she explained.
She also said she's looking forward to starting a family of her own.
"I've wanted to experience motherhood since when I was 12 years old. I love kids, I've always wanted to have them. And whenever it's time, I'm sure [I] will," she added.
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During a 2020 appearance on "The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon," Chopra Jonas said that she didn't want to take Jonas' surname after their wedding — she wanted to add it to her own because they're "becoming family."
"I don't take away my identity; he gets added to who I am," she explained.
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Chopra Jonas spoke about her and Jonas' daughter, who was born three months early, in a cover story for the February 2023 issue of British Vogue.
"We spent every single day with her on my chest, on my husband's chest," Chopra Jonas said of being in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) for three months. "I didn't know if she would make it or not."
The couple announced the birth of their baby via surrogate in a statement shared on their separate Instagram accounts on January 21, 2022.
Chopra Jonas also told British Vogue that it was "painful" when people speculated about why she and her husband chose surrogacy.
"You don't know me," Chopra Jonas told the publication. "You don't know what I've been through. And just because I don't want to make my medical history, or my daughter's, public doesn't give you the right to make up whatever the reasons were."