US EditionModern Family's Ariel Winter Reveals Heartbreaking Reason She Moved Out of Los Angeles
- Ariel Winter, star of Modern Family, moved out of Los Angeles with boyfriend Luke Benward after the show ended in April 2020.
- She decided to leave partly to escape childhood trauma, harsh public scrutiny about her body, and a desire for a new pace.
- Winter was removed from her home at age 14 due to abuse allegations against her mother and placed under her sister's legal guardianship until emancipation at 17.
- She described her trauma as an intensely personal and difficult experience from her childhood that she had not yet felt prepared to share publicly.
- Since moving, Winter continues acting and producing, podcasting, developing a cooking show, and advocating against online sexual predators and for abuse victims.
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Ariel Winter is sincere about her teenage years marked by harassment and body-shaming: “I know what it is to be hated. No matter what was going on, I was a target.”
16 years ago, the life of Ariel Winter (Los Angeles, 27 years old) was very different from the current one. The actress, who started acting with small roles in TV ads, achieved Alex Dunphy’s role in Modern Family in 2009. Then she 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 older and her body changed, fattened and thinned. “She w…
Ariel Winter Says Body Shaming While Starring In ‘Modern Family’ “Totally Damaged My Self-Esteem”
Ariel Winter is getting real about how it was growing up in front of the cameras, starring in Modern Family. The young star landed the role of Alex Dunphy at just 11 years old, and as she got older, she faced scrutiny over her body with mean comments on social media and in the press. “That was a major part of my teenage years,” she told People. “It was just everywhere. It was every headline I read about myself, like, grown people writing art…
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