Priyanka defines Suitable Boy and Charity

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Priyanka defines Suitable Boy and Charity

 

LONDON:

Newly-crowned

Femina Miss World

Priyanka Chopra says

she will seek the

consent of her parents

before she settles down with the man of her

dreams. But she insists it will not be an

arranged marriage ``because I want to make

up my own mind about it''.

 

"My parents are quite broad-minded and

marriage for me would be with someone I

love and someone I want to spend my life

with. But not without my parents' consent,"

she told IANS after her victory on Friday.

 

Though she has no steady boyfriend, the

18-year-old Bareilly girl confessed that

there have been men in her life, all Indians.

"My kind of guy would be someone who

would be very sensitive. He is somebody

who would have a smile that reaches his

eyes, somebody very sincere and of good

character. He has to be intelligent, I have to

be able to talk to him, to love him. He

wouldn't necessarily have to be Indian,"

she added.

 

Judging from the telephone calls that have

jammed the switchboard at London's

swanky Park Lane Hilton, there is no

shortage of men who consider themselves

suitable for her.

 

Priyanka disclosed that there had been so

many telephone calls from anonymous male

admirers after she won the Miss World

title, that organisers had started screening

the calls from Friday morning. "They've

been from people I don't know," she says.

"One of the guys asked if I would mind

coming home to dinner with him," she adds.

 

The Miss World organisation is keeping

Priyanka in London till Sunday when she

leaves for Germany. After that, she doesn't

know what is in store for her.

 

She said there was much more to her life

than parties and dates. Asked about her

work with children suffering from

thalessemia, she says, "It is working with

children who need blood transfusions

because they have infected blood. There's

no cure so they have to have blood

transfusions every 25 days."

 

"Because its done through the stomach, it is

very painful and the children usually

survive only until they are 12 to 15 years

old. I used to work for underprivileged

children before becoming Femina Miss

India. After Miss India happened, I got a

platform to voice my opinions even louder.

So I took up a few more causes because I

had to take advantage of my crown and I

guess I could do it,'' she says.

 

``It all started when I was in Lucknow

where I had gone to receive an award. A

woman came up to me and said her

daughter had thalessemia. I didn't know

much about it and it hit me that people

didn't know about the disease. When she

showed me pictures of her daughter and the

blood transfusions, it was too much to

handle. That's when I took up the cause.''