Ariel was only 11 years old when Modern family At first it was broadcast in 2009 and now at the age of 27 she can look back on difficult moments in her career, why she decided to leave Los Angeles and how she heals from duty from her traumatic childhood.
In an interview with People, Ariel revealed that although she had a successful career as Alex Dunphy in Hit -ABC -Sitcom, she was online about her bodies and appearances in the 11 seasons.
“It was only everywhere,” Ariel said the publication for her cover story on May 19.
“It was every headline that I read about myself, like adult people who write articles about me and say how I looked terrible or pregnant or like a fat bitch. I mean, I was 14,” she recalled. “It totally damaged my self -esteem.”
Ariel claimed that she understood her experience “what it was like to be hated by random people”. “No matter what I was going through, I was a goal. It made it very difficult to look at and go in the mirror: ‘I love this version of me.'”
To be in this way in the Hollywood ramp light was quite difficult, so if Modern family At the end of 2020 Ariel and her friend Luke Benward left Los Angeles to change, but that did not mean that she had left Hollywood.
“I didn’t leave the industry,” said Ariel. “I just left the city of La, she has some not big memories for me, and I am young and never lived somewhere else and thought: ‘Why not?’ If you are no longer in a network show that is recorded there, you don’t really have to be there, and when I get a network show, I can easily go back.
While she continues to pursue acting, Ariel has also started to work with Sosa (safe from online sex abuse), a non -profit organization that, according to her website, through undercover operations with law enforcement authorities, lawyers and education towards online sexual abuse and trade with sexual child and trade with law enforcement authorities, lawyers and education.
You can check the rest of the full interview here.
