Nick Jonas got a “singular impression” that his 3-year-old daughter, Malti Marie, is his No. 1 fan as he conquers Broadway.
“OK, so I’m all dressed and ready. I was walking out the door and my daughter, in her Tinkerbell dress, looked at me and said, ‘Oh wow, goodbye Prince Charming. Break a leg,’” Jonas, 32, said in a Sunday, April 6, Instagram video, referring to his black pinstripe suit. “So, I’m cooked.”
Jonas is currently starring as Jamie Wellerstein in the first Broadway production of Jason Robert Brown’s The Last Five Years. The theatrical revival, directed by Tony nominee Whitney White, also stars Adrienne Warren. The production’s official opening is slated for Sunday evening at the Hudson Theatre in New York City.
“What a way to kick off opening day,” Jonas wrote via his Instagram Stories earlier on Sunday, sharing a handmade poster from his daughter. “Thank you, MM.”
The poster featured multicolored tape spelling out “Congrats,” as well as a stencil of Malti’s hands, stickers of stars and the skyline of the Big Apple.
The Jonas Brothers singer shares his only child with wife Priyanka Chopra Jonas, whom he wed in 2018. They welcomed Malti via surrogate in January 2022. After a premature birth and 100-day NICU stay, Malti was finally able to come home with her parents.
“You realize quickly once you have a child that you can’t control everything,” Jonas recalled during a November 2023 appearance on the “Read the Room” podcast. “I think that was the biggest lesson for me at a stage in my life I didn’t expect to learn.”
Nick Jonas and Priyanka Chopra Jonas’ daughter, Malti Marie, had the best seat in the house for her dad’s Jonas Brothers concert on Friday, October 13. Chopra Jonas, 41, was spotted carrying Malti, 21 months, into the Amway Center in Orlando via multiple social media videos. The Citadel actress, who wore a pink Arabella Muse […]
He added, “You know, we went through a really tough couple of months at the start of her life and you have that vision [of] how it’s going to go throughout your whole life, and then it’s something completely different. Then, every day from there is completely different and presents its own set of challenges.”
Now that Malti’s growing up, Jonas has gotten to see her personality develop — and how his daughter takes after Chopra Jonas, 42.
“It’s so encouraging to be around people like that [who don’t take themselves too seriously],” Jonas said on the 2023 podcast. “I’m not talking about self-deprecating stuff, [but] like if you walk into a door, it’s funny. It’s not like, ‘Haha, you’re an idiot.’ It’s like, ‘We love you and we all saw it.’ I think it’s a really lovely quality to have in people. And obviously, my wife embodies that in spades. We’re seeing it now manifest in our daughter in a way that is brilliant.”
He gushed, “Her sense of humor and her ability to laugh at situations, and even her mischievous attitude, it’s great.”
