Priyanka Chopra shares a spiritual moment with Malti during her daughter's first trip to India

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Baby Malti's first visit to India included a spiritual moment her mom will never forget. On Friday, Priyanka Chopra shared a photo carousel on Instagram from her special mother-daughter trip with Malti to the Siddhivinayak temple in Mumbai.

"MM's first trip to India must have been completed with the blessing of Shree Siddhivinayak," Chopra captioned the beautiful photos of her visit to the temple. In the photos, Malti, 1, and her mother stand in the ornate temple as they receive their blessings. For his part, the "Citadel" actor wore a vibrant red and blue outfit, while his daughter wore an intricately embroidered white dress with a white headband.

Chopra and Nick Jonas welcomed their daughter into the world via surrogacy in January 2022. Little Malti was born prematurely and spent over 100 days in the NICU, but their baby girl came home at time to celebrate her first Mother's Day with her parents. In a January interview with British Vogue, Chopra reminisced about those early days when she wasn't sure her daughter would pull through.

“I was in the operating room [operating room] when she came out. She was so small, smaller than my hand,” Chopra said. "I saw what the intensive care nurses do. They do God's work. Nick and I were both there while they were intubating him. I don't know how they even found out what they had need [in his little body] to intubate him."

The 'Love Again' actor continued, "We spent every day with her on my chest, on my husband's chest. I didn't know if she would make it or not." A year later, Malti is thriving, but Chopra can't help but protect her daughter.

"I've developed tough skin when people talk about me," she told the outlet. "But it's so painful when they talk about my daughter. I'm like, 'Keep her out of it. I know what I felt...