All the Modern Family fans in the house, say aye! So Ariel Winter aka Alice Dunphy recently went through a breast reduction surgery and she is very happy with it. The Modern Family star reduced the size of her chest from a 32 F to a 34 D. In an exclusive interview to Glamour magazine, the actress opened up about her struggle with big breasts and how her decision to get a reduction has been supported by friends and family.
1. On her struggle with her size…
It really did happen overnight. I remember being in my sister’s wedding and being so flat and thinking, ‘I just wish I would grow boobs!’ and then overnight I did. But then they kept growing and growing and growing and it didn’t seem like they were going to stop. I was 15 years old with [size] F [breasts]. It’s like, ‘How do you navigate that?’
2. On how social media affects everyone…
We live in a day and age where everything you do is ridiculed. The Internet bullies are awful. I could post a photo where I feel good, and 500 people will comment about how fat I am and that I am disgusting. On [red carpets], I just said to myself, “You have to do your best to look confident and stand up tall, and make yourself look as good as you can in these photos,” because everyone is going to see them. I definitely seemed confident; I’m an actress, that’s what we do. But on the inside, I wasn’t feeling so happy.
3. On her red carpet appearances…
It made me feel really uncomfortable because as women in the industry, we are totally over sexualized and treated like objects. Every article that has to do with me on a red carpet always had to do with ‘Ariel Winter’s Crazy Cleavage!’ Or ‘Ariel Winter Shows Huge Boobs At An Event!’ That’s all people would recognize me by, not, “Oh, she does great work on Modern Family.”
4. On the new size she chose…
I knew for sure that I wasn’t going to go bigger than a D because the whole point was to get rid of it! I was a 32F and that was too big for me! My doctor said we shouldn’t go bigger than a D, and I agreed. He said he didn’t think we should go smaller than a C, and I agreed. And the reason I said that was because I have always been a curvier girl.
5. On her style changing on Modern Family because of her new boobs…
I don’t know. We’ve gotten rid of some of the flannels, though I love me some flannels sometimes! I don’t really think her style is going to change that drastically, and I’m OK with that. As long as there is a variety in her wardrobe, I’m fine with it!
6. On why she decided to share her story…
I didn’t want to not tell anybody and then have another million stories [say], “What happened to Ariel? She looks so different.” And I also think there’s some good that can come from [telling] my story. It’s something that I did to better my life and better my health and I think that that can benefit a lot of young girls. I have felt more happy with myself than I ever have.
More power to you, girl!!