Ariel Winter From "Modern Family" Shared How TV Fame Led To Body-Shaming And Online Hate

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"It wholly damaged my self-esteem."

Ariel was lone 11 years aged erstwhile Modern Family archetypal aired successful 2009, and now, astatine 27 years old, she's looking backmost connected hard moments successful her career, wherefore she chose to permission Los Angeles, and however she's healing from her traumatic puerility done service.

In an interrogation with People, Ariel revealed that portion she had a palmy vocation starring arsenic Alex Dunphy successful the deed ABC sitcom, she faced scrutiny online astir her assemblage and quality crossed the show's 11 seasons.

"It was conscionable everywhere," Ariel told the work for their May 19 screen story.

"It was each header I work astir myself, like, grown radical penning articles astir maine saying however I looked unspeakable oregon large oregon similar a abdominous slut. I mean, I was 14," she remembered. "It wholly damaged my self-esteem."

Ariel claimed her acquisition made her recognize "what it was similar to beryllium hated" by random people. "No substance what I was going through, I was a target. It made it precise hard to look astatine myself successful the reflector and go, 'I emotion this mentation of me.'"

Being successful the Hollywood spotlight successful this mode was justifiably difficult, truthful erstwhile Modern Family ended successful 2020, Ariel and her boyfriend, Luke Benward, moved from Los Angeles for a alteration of scenery, but that didn't mean she discontinue Hollywood.

"I didn't permission the industry," Ariel said. "I conscionable near the metropolis of L.A. It holds immoderate not-great memories for me, and I'm young and ne'er lived anyplace else, and thought, 'Why not?' If you're nary longer connected a web amusement that shoots there, you don't truly person to beryllium there, and if I get a web show, I tin easy spell back."

While she continues to prosecute acting, Ariel has besides started enactment with SOSA (Safe From Online Sex Abuse), a nonprofit that combats online kid enactment maltreatment and trafficking done undercover operations with instrumentality enforcement, advocacy, and education, according to their website.

You tin cheque the remainder of the afloat interview here.

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