Priyanka Chopra Explains How Daughter Malti 'Gets Away With Murder'

When it comes to the little white lies a parent tells their child, Priyanka Chopra Jonas admits there aren’t many she tells her daughter, Malti, 3.

While a guest on Kylie Kelce’s podcast “Not Gonna Lie,” Kelce and Chopra Jonas discussed the fibs they tell their kids. Kelce, 33, admitted to telling her four girls that the TV in their minivan only works during long car rides, while Chopra Jonas, 42, often tells Malti that the internet isn’t working in the house.

But that’s about where the lies stop, Chopra Jonas admitted, because when it comes to Malti, she can get away with anything.

“She’s the most precious thing in our lives and was such a miracle anyway that she gets away with murder with me,” Chopra Jonas told Kelce. “So I try, I try, but the internet is one of my big lies.”

“Oh, and with food as well,” the actress continued. “She wants to be as old as Moana. And my daughter was a preemie, preemie baby, so I’m one of those NICU moms that is still, like, obsessed with her nutrition.”

Chopra Jonas said each of Malti’s meals include everything she needs, despite her daughter’s pediatrician telling her she “needs to stop obsessing.”

“I can’t help it,” Chopra Jonas continued, “because she was so tiny when she was born.”

Malti was 110 days early when she was born, or “the entire third trimester,” as Chopra Jonas explained.

“That is impressive,” Kelce said. “What a fighter, girl.”

“Yeah, she really fought and clawed her way into life,” Chopra Jonas said of Malti, whom she shares with husband Nick Jonas. “I have so much admiration for her. So she gets away with anything with me. Honestly, I’m just like, ‘Yes, take it. It’s yours. Everything, whatever you need.’”

The Heads of State star also admits that her daughter knows it too. Malti is a big fan of playing dress-up with her mom’s wardrobe, who doesn’t object.

“She comes into my closet. She calls it the ‘magic closet,’” Chopra Jonas shared. “She’ll wear my shoes, walk out. She’ll like, take my bag, walk out.”

Kelce admitted that Malti would get along well with her third daughter, Bennett, who loves playing with makeup, which she calls “wakeup.” Malti calls it “yippic.”

“I just want to see life through their eyes for a little bit,” Kelce admitted, to which Chopra Jonas agreed.

“It’s my escape. Like, if I’m having a s***ty day, that’s what I do. I come back home to my daughter and my husband, like, I come back home especially to her, and I like, just throw my bag, my shoes, whatever, and just snuggle into her,” Chopra Jonas said. “And everything is OK in the world.”