16 years ago, the life of Ariel Winter (Los Angeles, 27 years old) was very different from the current one. The actress, who began in the performance with small papers in television ads, achieved the role of Alex Dunphy in Modern Family In 2009. Then I was 11 years old. For her, the successful series meant both the beginning of her takeoff in the industry and a constant body scrutiny of her physique as she grew and her body changed, fattened and thinned. “I was everywhere. In every head that I read about me, there were adult people writing articles about me saying that I looked terrible or like a pregnant woman or a fat whore. I mean, I was 14 years old. My self -esteem was very damaged,” Winter has sincerely since People. This scrutiny, “was an important part of my adolescence,” in the words of the interpreter.
It did not care as winter to lose weight or fattening, the Body Shaming And the harassment of which he was a victim during his adolescence years for his physique was a constant that the actress seemed unable to get rid of. “In the institute, I took antidepressants. This caused it to fat 13 kilos. I could not lose weight, but I prioritized my mental health. I was not willing to sacrifice my well -being. What could I do?” He continues in the conversation with the American environment. “When I grow up, I tried another medication to see if anyone came better to me and in the end I lost that weight and people said: ‘Oh, it is drugged’ or ‘how disgusting, now it is too thin.
Activist of the POSITIVE BODY, Winter has always responded to the criticisms that have proliferated on-line About his physique and has defended that real bodies change. Even so, he is fully aware of what he is to live facing your haters, responding to criticism And receiving negative comments about your body daily: “I know what it is to be hated. Regardless of what was happening, it was a white. It was difficult for me to look in the mirror and say: ‘I love this version of me,” he confesses in People.
Only after years of fighting those who criticized her for her body, he understood that the problem was not his, but of all those who used the Internet to launch attacks against their physique: “regardless of what would happen, I was going to be a goal.”
When it ended Modern Familythe damage to self -esteem and Winter’s mental health was at its peak. For that reason, he decided to take a while and start a healing process: “I undertook a self -care trip,” he says about how his life was after finishing the series, whose last chapter was broadcast on April 8, 2020. My own family and I need to heal to reach my best version to be able to dedicate myself to being a mother, ”says the actress.
In the interview he also assures that he feels grateful for, now, being healthy and never having fallen into an addiction like many other children’s stars to “silence scrutiny and external noise.” “I have been lucky to have opportunities and resources to heal. I have wonderful people around me and a second fantastic chance, and that is fundamental,” he says. Winter, who for five years has maintained a relationship with also actor Luke Benward, moved out of Los Angeles after ending the filming of the series with which he became known and began to go to therapy to, in his words, “be wiser and feel better in my own skin.”
To finish his conversation with the American magazine he launches a question: “Would it be good for people to stop talking about my appearance? Of course. Is it going to happen? No, but, do I care so much? No. There are so many other things that I am doing for those that I want people to worry and that they have nothing to do with how I see myself.”
Over the years, he has taken advantage of his fame to rise in a firm defender of the woman’s body and the evolution of the physicist as the years go by. In 2016, he published an extensive statement on his Instagram account – where he accumulates 5.1 million followers – in which he was sincere on harassment, responded to his detractors and reaffirmed that the most important thing was to accept himself: “Every time someone makes me Bullying In social networks it gives me the opportunity to remind me and my fans once again how important it is to accept oneself. I thank all the people who say such horrible things on my Instagram for giving me the opportunity to show it. But the question that I always ask myself when I read the malicious comments is: if they are able to write this to a person they do not know, what they will be able to say to themselves. High to hate. Accept everything you are, know your defects, because that makes you perfect. I love my fans and I love those who make me bullying because what they really need is love, ”he wrote.
Following this line of denunciation with hatred, in 2017 he answered a controversy that arose from a publication of his on Instagram, where he wore short black pants and a top of the same color. Many users commented on the image by calling it “fat”, “Stripper“Or leaving messages like” it has struggled in the shorts“She replied in X (then Twitter):” I am quite angry because people focus on the fact that I carry shortsthe comment that I have sewed in them and the idea that it is not good that I take them. It is summer. Overcome it. I am not a whore to take shorts and strap tops. I am a normal girl. “The actress thus continued her allegation:” My shorts They feel good and everything I do is fine. Please leave young girls alone. We are simply living our lives. It is really a problem that we have to deal with these comments today. Please stop criticizing everything that everyone does. ”
Winter also decided to share why he had decided to undergo a chest reduction in June 2015. “Women in this industry are sexualized to the maximum and we are treated as objects. In each article that had to do with me on a red carpet there was talk of my neck Glamormedium that gave the exclusive of its operation. “I did it for myself. I am not even able to describe in words how great I feel to meet so well.”
The interpreter’s life has not been marked only by harassment and Body Shaming. At age 14, she was withdrawn from her home, where she lived with her mother, Chrisoula Workman, by the Department of California Child and Family Protection Services, due to the complaints of abuse. He went on to live with his older sister, Shanelle Gray, who became his legal tutor. “I had a great adolescence thanks to being in your custody,” Winter said. Three years later, when he was 17, he legally emancipated, she was declared an adult and since then she has maintained distances with her mother.
