<p>Modern Family star Ariel Winter</a> plays a teenage daughter loved and adored by her wacky on-screen parents. But in real life, the 19-year-old claims she’s had to deal with an absent father, and mother who selfishly used her to live out her own Hollywood fantasies.</p><br /><p>In a revealing interview in The Hollywood Reporter</a>, Winter claims that her mom physically and emotionally abused her as a young child, and starting at the tender age of seven, was forced into skimpy and sexual clothing to win roles. “The smallest miniskirts</a>, sailor suits, low-cut things, the shortest dresses you’ve ever seen. People thought I was 24 when I was 12,” Winter told THR. “If there was going to be a nude scene when I was that age, my mother would have a thousand percent said yes.”</p><br /><p>To make sure she would fit into the tight and revealing outfits, mom Crystal Workman greatly restricted what her daughter could eat</a>, forcing her to starve on the bare minimum of nutrients. It didn’t take long for people on set to notice Winter was starving. “I would order a couple lunches in my name so Ariel could eat one of them. I could tell she was hungry,” Sharon Sacks, her on-set teacher, said. “Boiled chicken and cucumbers isn’t going to do it for a growing kid.” As her daughter’s star meter rose, Workman piggybacked off her to enjoy the celebrity lifestyle, even as it risked Winter her health.</p><br /><p>The post Ariel Winter Says Her Mom Physically & Emotionally Abused Her</a> appeared first on Star Magazine</a>.</p><br />
