Wearing her luxurious dark hair down in light waves, the Fashion star warded off the rays with a massive pair of bronze sunglasses.

In a mild concession to the autumn weather, she flung a long black coat fashionably over her shoulders without putting her arms in the sleeves.

Peace out: Priyanka Chopra slid her hourglass frame into a red-hot leather dress for her latest showstopping outing on Friday

She cut a more casual figure when she was spotted at another time that day, modeling a double denim look with a camel-toned coat thrown on top.

Shading her face with a baseball cap and a pair of cat-eye sunglasses, she left her top open to reveal her cropped white undershirt.

Her latest sighting comes after she dished about how she honed her body into shape and regained the self-assurance to show off her midriff.

‘I was training for a movie recently, and I had a reintroduction with my abs after a long time. I hadn’t been confident about wearing crop tops and stuff like that,’ Priyanka told PopSugar in a recent interview.

When she finally decided to put a crop top on again, she still had a moment of hesitation before mustering the nerve to go outside.

‘I wasn’t sure when I was walking out the door, but I was like: “Alright, I’m going to push myself,”‘ the Baywatch: The Movie actress confessed. ‘And then eventually I turned around and added that into my wardrobe a lot more.’

A few years ago, she confessed to the Bollywood gossip site PinkVilla that she cannot ‘get away with’ eating whatever she likes, but has ‘learned how to sort of hide’ the excess weight ‘in a very creative way.’

She rhapsodized: ‘I love food. I can’t help it, like, I live for food. I wake up for food. My breakfast, lunch, dinner is all about food. I have breakfast talking about lunch. I have lunch talk about dinner.’

Hello, gorgeous: The 41-year-old actress, who branched out from Bollywood superstardom to a Hollywood career, was seen dashing around New York this week

With a laugh, she allowed that ‘it shows on your body sometimes, especially around Diwali and Christmas. After Diwali and Christmas, I always put on weight.’

She has a number of films in the pipeline at present, including an action thriller called Heads Of State starring Idris Elba, John Cena and Carla Gugino.

Priyanka is also one of the three A-list Bollywood actresses leading the buddy comedy Jee Le Zara, whose title is Hindi for Live A Little.

Jee Le Zara will be directed by the steamy movie star Farhan Akhtar, who recently revealed that the project is currently on the back burner because Priyanka is a member of SAG-AFTRA, which is still on strike.

‘We just have issues with dates,’ Farhan told the Indian news agency ANI: ‘and the actor’s strike that’s happened has put Priyanka’s dates into a huge tizzy with what can happen and what can’t, so I’ve started genuinely believing that that film now has a destiny of its own. It’ll happen when it has to, we’ll see.’

Off she goes: Shading her face with a baseball cap and a pair of cat-eye sunglasses, she left her top open to reveal her cropped white undershirt

On the personal front, Priyanka is married to the boy band star Nick Jonas, with whom she shares a one-year-old daughter called Malti.

They welcomed Malti via surrogate in January 2022, and after her premature birth the baby spent 100 days in neonatal intensive care before arriving home.

Early this month it was claimed that Priyanka felt conflicted after her brother-in-law Joe Jonas split from his wife Sophie Turner.

A source informed Life & Style that Priyanka had grown ‘very close’ to Sophie and now finds herself torn by the ‘mess’ of their bitter divorce and custody battle.

‘There was once a time Sophie thought she and Joe would move to London and so would Nick and Priyanka,’ the insider alleged. ‘Priyanka loves Sophie and her nieces and doesn’t want to do anything to jeopar­dize them being in her life.’

Tellingly, however, it emerged last week that Priyanka and Sophie were no longer following one another on Instagram.