Ariel Winter is featured in the newest issue of Rogue Magazine. This is my first experience with Rogue and I kind of like it. They have a dynamic layout and I love their styling. Ariel’s photos are bombshell sexy, because that’s her thing. I’ve never really seen Ariel model before, only pose on red carpets. She’s not bad in these shots, I love that top pic. In the article, Ariel discusses starting her career so young (age four) and how it has actually helped her with some of the negative aspects of fame. Specifically, being able to rise about the backlash she receives for her racy Instagram photos. Only this time, she broadens her argument from body/slut shaming to good old-fashioned sexism. Ariel claims Hollywood can’t handle looking at a shapely woman.

Ariel Winter is best known for her role as Alex Dunphy in the hit comedy series Modern Family, has grown up before our eyes, officially ringing in adulthood while celebrating her 18th birthday this past January.

“At this stage, you get sort of jaded after a certain period I feel like I’ve
been in the industry for so long that I have gotten to that point where people’s
comments and the exposure doesn’t bother me as much,” she admits. “I mean it still bothers people when you get negative feedback for something, but it doesn’t hit me as hard as it would somebody just entering the industry.”

Multiple articles abound questioning her choice of photos on Instagram
and berating her for flaunting her sexuality at such a tender age.

“It’s called being a woman in the industry,” she says. “It’s complete sexism.”

Winter says that plenty of men in the “industry” would never receive the same criticism
if they posted similar photos. Instead, she says, they would probably receive
laughs or applause with the press lauding their exploits as what the public expects
from them.

“It’s really degrading, annoying and sad that this is what the media puts out,” she
says. “It’s disgusting to me.”

“I’ve gone through a whole bunch of things, both in my personal life and my professional
life and they’ve all contributed to where I am now,” she says.

“I’m definitely very opinionated, and I’m very passionate,” she says. “Oh yeah, and I
guess I try to be funny.”

[From Rogue Magazine Digital Edition]

“Multiple articles abound questioning her choice of photos on Instagram and berating her for flaunting her sexuality at such a tender age. “It’s complete sexism.”” That’s my problem, right there. Ariel may not want to deal with negative criticism but she is also not listening. The majority of people who take exception to her pictures come from the angle of her youth, not her figure. I don’t dispute that there is sexism in Hollywood, but I disagree with her point about “if a man did it”. I think if that man were an eighteen-year-old boy wearing an open shirt and shorts that allowed his derriere to hang out, he would receive backlash.

I support a person’s right to wear what they want when they reach adulthood (I had to write the “reach adulthood” bit for my children who might those words against me during their adolescence.) However, the only time I ever read about Ariel is when she is pointing out her own photos. Even though she says she’s only posting her pictures for her own enjoyment, when she receives criticism, she decries body/slut shaming! and now sexism! My problem is that when that chatter falls quiet, she posts photos like (NSFW) this or this. And the only way I know about the new risky photos or the criticism it received is from Ariel. Is that freedom of expression or baiting?

Photo credit: Irvin Rivera/Rogue Magazine and WENN Photos