Alex Dunphy from Modern Family Stuns in Real Life and Looks Completely Different from Her Character

Ariel Winter’s style is nothing like her “Modern Family” character, Alex Dunphy. Unlike her on-screen persona as a scholarly wallflower, Winter has had a much more corporeal upbringing, staying candid about her journey with her evolving body image. In an op-ed for Today in 2016, Winter wrote that her body transformed almost overnight, and she didn’t know how to face the changes. “I suddenly had D-cups and my body was filling out, and it was really hard for me [to] accept a lot of the criticism I faced online,” Winter wrote. Thankfully, castmate Sofia Vergara supported her. “I had Sofia Vergara, for one thing,” Winter went on. “Growing up working with her was amazing because I got to see how confident she was in her body and how much she embraced her curves.” 

While Winter still embraced her own body, she underwent a breast reduction in 2015 because media attention was overly fixated on her body. “Walking down the red carpet and seeing the photos afterward and having every headline be about my cleavage and — not about my talent […] Not about what I was really there for … ,” Winter shared with Good Morning America as to why she made this decision. The “Modern Family” star did what was best for her, and judging from her active presence on Instagram, she’s happy with how she looks.