‘A stranger followed her home’: Why Priyanka Chopra Jonas uses security to shield daughter Malti’s privacy; why protecting children’s autonomy is non-negotiable | Lifestyle News
Publish Date: 2026-03-18 10:30:00
Source Domain: indianexpress.com
4 min readNew DelhiMar 18, 2026 08:00 PM IST
Raising children in an increasingly digital and hyperconnected world has introduced new challenges for parents, particularly regarding privacy and safety. Recently, Priyanka Chopra Jonas spoke about why she prefers to keep her daughter, Malti Marie Chopra Jonas, away from the public spotlight for now. Speaking on the Not Skinny But Not Fat podcast hosted by Amanda Hirsch, she explained that as her daughter grows older, she wants to give her as much privacy and normalcy as possible.
Priyanka said that her approach is centred on letting her child grow up without unnecessary attention while still understanding the reality of public curiosity. “As she’s growing older, we’ve started to also kind of just deflect a little bit. She moves around a lot, so we let her have as much anonymity as she can. It is her normal, and people will be curious about her, and I never want her to be fearful of that or judgmental or sceptical of the humans that she meets, because there are good people in the world, and I’ve had wonderful experiences with friends like that. It’s okay for her to be aware of it, but to have a sense of choice, I think, will be important (sic),” she said.
She also shared that concerns about privacy and safety led her to implement certain protective measures. According to Priyanka, an incident in which a stranger followed her home from school while recording her reinforced the importance of being cautious about unwanted attention. Reflecting on this, she explained why security sometimes accompanies them in public. “When we have security out and about, it’s just … to not be recorded without consent because a lot of that happens… I’ve always been of the opinion that I kind of chose a public life… (When) it comes to children, that’s … terrain we are all learning in the last like 10 to 20 years what that is gonna be like in the next 10 years, 15 years for them. So I…
