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ENTITY reports on Priyanka Chopra talking to Cosmopolitan about sexual objectification in the entertainment world.

Priyanka Chopra has made a surprising statement about her role as sex symbol in Hollywood.

Chopra is an accomplished woman in the entertainment world as an actress, singer and film producer. She also held the Miss World pageant crown in 2000. As a woman making her name in the male-dominated business, sexual objectification is hard to evade.

Many celebrities – from Zendaya to Lena Dunham – are using their fame to vocalize their concern with the problem. But the “Quantico” actress has a different view of the role sexual objectification plays in her career, which she shares in a trending Dec. 22 interview with Cosmopolition.

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Cosmopolitan asked the actress if she would be proud to be a sex symbol with her upcoming role in the Baywatch reboot. “Yes, being objectified is part of my job,” Chopra answered. “I don’t get offended by being called a sex symbol, because I’m an actress and it’s the nature of what I do.”

However, she also acknowledged that this label shouldn’t stand in the way of other goals you want to achieve. “But I don’t think being a sex symbol is something you want to aim for,” she continued. “Of course you want to be hot, but that’s not all you want to stand for.”

While her statement on the subject may seem surprising to some, she is not the only female celebrity to respond along these lines. Actresses Viola Davis and Sofia Vergara have also shared similarly unexpected statements about sexual objectification.

Davis points out that sexualizing an older character – such as her character Annalise Keating in “How to Get Away with Murder” – gives women strength in the entertainment industry.

“I had never seen a 49-year-old, dark-skinned woman who is not a size 2 be a sexualized role in TV or film,” Viola told The Hollywood Reporter during a celebrity roundtable panel. “I’m a sexual woman, but nothing in my career has ever identified me as a sexualized woman. I was the prototype of the ‘mommified’ role.”

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Vergara takes a more light-hearted approach and brushes off any objectification thrown her way by the media.

“I’ve never understood why women get so offended it. I just don’t believe in all that drama, which is why I’ve made a joke out of it,” Vergara told NET-A-PORTER’s magazine The Edit. “I am secure enough not to take it all that seriously, and I like to laugh at myself. My husband [Joe Manganiello] was a male stripper in Magic Mike XXL – do you think he was offended?”

From Mark Ruffalo to John Legend, many celebrity men are speaking out about women as sex symbols in the media. Actor Chris Pratt offers a male perspective and counters the persistent problem with a slightly odd solution: objectifying men as well.

“I think it’s appalling that for a long time only women were objectified, but I think if we really want to advocate for equality, it’s important to even things out,” Pratt told Yahoo Movies UK. “Not objectify women less, but objectify men just as often as we objectify women.”

According to a report from American Psychological Association, sexual objectification focuses solely on a individual’s body, drawing attention away from his or her brain, talent or credentials. This act is most common among women, which may negatively affect female viewers’ self-image.

It also affects their image in the eyes of others, such as men’s treatment of women on college campuses. In a 2001 study from the APA report, researchers “found that 94 percent of undergraduate women [in the sample] reported experiencing unwanted objectifying sexual comments and behaviors at least once over a semester.”

Despite conflicting opinions on the topic, people on both sides agree that the on screen sexual objectification of women is a part of the Hollywood business not likely to change anytime soon.

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