Ariel Winter Instagram: 'Modern Family' Star Confidently Flaunts Breast Reduction Scars: 'They're a Part of Me'
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"Modern Family" star Ariel Winter showed off her breast reduction scars at the red carpet and brushed off critics who said she should have covered it up.
Addressing her followers on social media, Winter said she meant to show her surgical scars without any shame. It was easy to spot these from her photographs during the Screen Actors Guild Awards. "Guys there is a reason I didn't make an effort to cover up my scars!" the young star wrote on her Twitter. "They are part of me and I'm not ashamed of them at all."
Guys there is a reason I didn't make an effort to cover up my scars! They are part of me and I'm not ashamed of them at all. :)
— Ariel Winter (@arielwinter1) January 31, 2016
Winter further addressed critics in an Instagram post that reiterated her confidence about her body image. "Embrace all that you are... Scars & everything. Your imperfections make you perfectly you #loveyourself," wrote Winter along with a photo of a quote alluded to fashion designer Marc Jacobs.
A photo posted by Ariel Winter (@arielwinter) on Feb 2, 2016 at 7:55am PST
The 18-year-old TV star decided to get a breast reduction surgery last year to address a health concern. "They kept growing and growing and growing and it didn't seem like they were going to stop," she told Glamour in August 2015. "It started to hurt so bad that I couldn't take the pain."
Winter confessed she experienced back problems and neck pain because of her breast; the idea of undergoing surgery had always been in her mind. She actually discussed this with doctors for years.
The actress also used to feel self-conscious at red carpet events because she knows the public is going to judge what she would wear. "Being a 5-ft.-tall girl and having extremely large breasts is really ostracizing and excruciatingly painful," she told People. "I'd just be wearing something anyone else could wear, but I'd read comments saying, 'She dresses inappropriately.'"
So from a 32F, the teen star is now a 34D and she said that the results have been immediate. "It was an instant weight lifted off my chest - both literally and figuratively," said Winter.
She also admitted she's more confident about her body now more than ever and guys look at her in the eye now instead of wandering towards her breast. People have also stopped asking if her breasts are fake.
Five days after her breast reduction procedure, Winter was literally up and running for her workout. Her recovery was quick. "I was buying clothes and crying as I put them on, I was so happy. You just feel so relieved and excited. You feel like a new person. You feel like this is how I was supposed to be," she told Glamour.
