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At the age of thirteen, Chopra moved to the United States to study, living with her aunt, and attending schools in Newton, Massachusetts, and Cedar Rapids, Iowa, after a stop in Queens, New York, as her aunt's family also moved frequently.[18][19] While in Massachusetts, she participated in several theatre productions and studied Western classical music, choral singing and Kathakdance.[20] During her teenage years in theUnited States, Chopra sometimes faced racial issues and was bullied for being Indian.[21][22]She has said, "I was a gawky kid, had low self-esteem, came from a modest middle-class background, had white marks on my legs ... But I was damn hard working. Today, my legs sell 12 brands."[22]

After three years, Chopra returned to India, finishing the senior year[18][19] of her high-school education at the Army Public School in Bareilly.[23][24] During this period, she won the local "May Queen" beauty pageant,[25] after which she was pursued by admirers, leading her family to equip their home with bars for her protection.[19] Her mother then entered her in the Femina Miss India contest of 2000;[26]she finished second,[a] winning the FeminaMiss India World title.[29] Chopra then went on to the Miss World pageant, where she was crowned Miss World 2000 and Miss World Continental Queen of Beauty—Asia & Oceaniaat the Millennium Dome in London on 30 November 2000.[27][30][31] Chopra was the fifth Indian contestant to win Miss World, and the fourth to do so in seven years.[27][32] She had enrolled in college, but left after winning the Miss World pageant.[14][25] Chopra said that the Miss India and Miss World titles brought her recognition, and she then began receiving offers for film roles.[20][33]

Chopra has maintained a strong relationship with her family, including her younger brother, Siddharth, and lives in an apartment on the same floor as her family.[3][34] She was especially close to her father, who died in June 2013;[35] in 2012, she got a tattoo reading "Daddy's lil girl", in his handwriting.[24][36] Having not come from a film background, she describes herself as aself-made woman.[37] Her mother, a well-established gynaecologist in Bareilly, gave up her practice to support Chopra as she embarked upon a film career