Ariel Winter was a teenager when she was filming Modern Family. Teenagers, as I'm sure you remember, change. Their bodies change, their skin breaks out, it's a freaking weird time; imagine being on television then. No thank you, no thank you very much.
And then imagine the absolute bile that people feel entitled to spout about celebrities; about men and women (and, yes, children) who are just doing a job that happens to bring them into household living rooms once a week. Why people feel entitled to comment on other bodies is beyond me — and I'm so sad to say that Ariel Winter endured some serious abuse while she was still a literal child.
Ariel Winter recently opened up on Red Table Talk: The Estefans about the trolling, which increased as she hit puberty.
"My body fully changed. I was curvy; I had boobs," she said.
"I got called a 'fat slut' when I was 13. That was rough. Because I gained weight and my body changed, I had to wear different outfits, and I wore a dress that had a cutout here [points to chest] — and the headlines were dark. 'Fat slut' was rough for me, and it continued.
"It was the fans, some of them — we have lovely, lovely fans, but some of them were also hard on me in the way that they loved Alex Dunphy. And because I wasn't Alex Dunphy and didn't look like Alex — I was just different. I'm not my character.
"For them, they're like, 'How did you go from Alex Dunphy to being a whore? You're trying to be sexy. You're 13. You're a horrible role model. What are you showing people? You got so fat on TV; now you look so fat.'"
Imagine being thirteen, fourteen years old and hearing the entire world comment on your appearance? My god.
The comments started AGAIN when Ariel began taking antidepressants in high school. She said she "gained 30 pounds."
"It was rough going to school. It was rough online; on my Instagram it was like, flooding comments. And so then I was like, 'They hate this about me. I need to work on it. I need to be thinner. I need to change my hair here. My cheeks look weird. If I change these things about me, the things they hate about me, I'm not going to get that anymore. I'm going to get praised.'
After I spent so many times trial-and-erroring with my appearance, and every time I changed something, something else was wrong," she continued, explaining how she tried various diets and more or less revealing outfits before realizing nothing would make people happy."
"You can put your titties out there and feel good about it. I can put what I want about me online. To tell me that I'm looking for it — that I'm asking for the dick pics in my DMs, that I'm asking for all the things that are disgusting to read... [There was] an overwhelming amount of negativity and sexualization that was really dark."
Ariel was asked how she's coping now. She said, "I'm definitely still on a journey. I've been in therapy twice a week for years. I love my therapist. I love my time in therapy."
She's also been pretty open about how body-shaming has affected her for a while now. Last year, she said, "I think it's difficult for any child actor, though that's a really hated-on term, but for any child actor to grow up on TV in front of millions of people because millions of people then think they [...] know you really well and think they can comment on everything you wear or everything you do or how you grow up and change.
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Ariel Winter Opens Up About The Hate She Endured While On ‘Modern Family’
Source: Pinoy Inquirer News
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