“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.

“I understood what it was like to be hated,” she explained in the story published Wednesday. “No matter what I was going through, I was a target. It made it very difficult to look at myself in the mirror and go, ‘I love this version of me.’”

Elsewhere in the interview, Winter got candid about another traumatic part of her childhood: her strained relationship with her mom.

Child protective services removed Winter from her home with her mom, Chrisoula Workman, when she was 14, and her older sister, Shanelle Gray, became her legal guardian. Winter accused Workman of abuse. Workman has publicly denied the allegations.

“Honestly, it’s just my entire childhood,” Winter told People of her No. 1 source of trauma. “It’s a really deep, painful, sore, sore part for me that’s so much deeper and bigger than I’ve ever felt ready to talk about.”

Winter and her boyfriend, fellow actor Luke Benward, moved out of L.A. together after “Modern Family” wrapped up in 2020.

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