Modern Family's Ariel Winter Has Breast Reduction Surgery

Ariel Winter has something to get off her chest.

Speaking to Glamour.com, the actress does just that by announcing that she underwent breast reduction surgery on June 4 to reduce the size of her boobs from a 32F to a 34D. "It's amazing to finally feel right," the 17-year-old Modern Family star tells the magazine. "This is how I was supposed to be."

Until this summer, Winter says it was "really hard" to dress up for red carpet events. "There was so little that I could wear that was age-appropriate. I'd have to wear the dress that was super tight and form-fitted everywhere because if I didn't, it didn't look good. I didn't really have an option other than to wear fitted clothes. Everyone would [say], 'Why is she dressing so mature? That's so inappropriate for her age!' I understood what they were saying," the actress explains. "It's not like I wanted to pick out those inappropriate dresses, it's just that I didn't really have another choice, or I was going to get ridiculed."

"It's hard when you're a teenage girl and you already have a lot of ridicule and then you pile on more, and it's kind of…it just gets too much," Winter says of growing up in the spotlight, adding, "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."

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