Nick Jonas has opened up about the traumatic birth of his daughter for the first time.
Jonas and his wife, Priyanka Chopra Jonas, welcomed their daughter Malti Marie via surrogate in January 2022.
The Jonas brother, 33, revealed on the most recent episode of The Jay Shetty Podcast that his daughter came into the world “under very intense circumstances.”
“We were expecting her to arrive in April of the year she was born, and we get a call that it’s going to be sooner. So basically, we went into action,” he explained.
“We got to the hospital, and she came out. She was 1 pound, 11 ounces, and … purple.
“These angels at the NICU kind of resuscitated her in that moment, and got her taken care of really quickly and intubated and everything else.”
The singer explained that because their daughter was born during the COVID-19 pandemic, he and his wife would do “12-hour shifts” to stay with their baby at hospital.
He and Chopra were in and out of the hospital for three months.
”I could still sort of like, smell it, you know, there’s always visceral things,” he said.
“It was both comforting and frightening, to be there every day and to see sort of other families going through similar situations.”
He added that Malti “fought every day for three and a half months and slowly started to gain some weight.”
She also received six blood transfusions and was able to go home after three and a half months.
”I feel like she knows how she entered the world and what that first chapter of her life was like,” Jonas said.
“And so every day is a gift, and you can actually feel it in her in the way that she behaves and how exciting everything is.”
Chopra has previously discussed the circumstances around her daughter’s birth.
In a 2023 interview with British Vogue, she said Malti was born a full trimester before her due date, and she was “Smaller than my hand.”
“She was so small,” Chopra Jonas said at the time.
“I saw what the intensive-care nurses do. They do God’s work. Nick and I were both standing there as they intubated her.
“I don’t know how they even found what they needed (in her tiny body) to intubate her.”
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