
‘Modern Family’ Star Says She Felt Like A ‘Target’ For Internet Trolls At 14
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“I understood what it was like to be hated," she said.
“Modern Family” alum Ariel Winter is opening up about being body-shamed by internet trolls and the media while growing up onscreen as a child actor.
“It was just everywhere,” she told People of the damaging press. “It was every headline I read about myself, like, grown people writing articles about me saying how I looked terrible or pregnant or like a fat slut. I mean, I was 14.”
Winter added: “It totally damaged my self-esteem.”
Winter played the book-smart middle child in the Dunphy family in the long-running sitcom alongside co-stars Ty Burrell, Julie Bowen, Sarah Hyland and Nolan Gould. Winter starred in the series from 2009 to 2020.
The actor, now 27, said she felt like a “target” and found it hard to love herself amid the hate.













