Modern Family Star Ariel Winter Writes Powerful Essay On Getting Breast Reduction Surgery

Everyone should love their own body. Plain and simple! Read more..

Ariel Winter is an actor known for her role as Alex Dunphy on the Emmy Award-winning comedy series Modern Family.

She wrote an essay for Motto/time on her life changing breast reduction surgery:

My life changed over the course of a summer. I came back to film season 3 of Modern Family, and I knew that I looked totally different than when we’d wrapped season 2. Suddenly, I was just over 5 feet tall and was an F-cup.

Women are already over-sexualized, and I grew into my body so young. I was 13, 14 years old, and I looked 19. Suddenly, people didn’t want to talk about my job—they just wanted to talk about my cleavage. I’d go to awards shows and the next day see everyone on the Internet telling me I shouldn’t look like this and dress like that. The conversation became about my looks instead of my talent and work—everything that I didn’t want. I even started getting messages from older male fans, and let’s just say they were gross.

Sometimes, it felt like even my work was defined by my body. I was offered a lot of older roles because I wasn’t able to play “younger” anymore.

People may find it hard to believe, but when I got my breast-reduction surgery last year, it wasn’t because of the mean comments online. It wasn’t because I didn’t like how I looked. Having so much weight on my frame was affecting me psychologically. I was uncomfortable and unhappy. I chose surgery because of how I felt, not because of what anyone else thought.

Afterward, I automatically felt so much happier and just better physically. My back and shoulders didn’t hurt anymore!….

Modern Family Star Ariel Winter Writes Powerful Essay On Getting Breast Reduction Surgery

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