Ariel Winter And Sarah Hyland Mutually Agreed That Dealing With Their Appearances Was A Nightmare On

Highlights

• Overcoming public scrutiny and medical conditions, Sarah Hyland and Ariel Winter leaned on each other for support, responding with wit.
• Hyland faced kidney disease, forgetting filming due to exhaustion. Winter struggled with puberty and rude comments.
• Despite the challenges, the stars of Modern Family stayed strong, dealing with health issues and constant judgment.

Ariel Winter and Sarah Hyland faced many struggles on Modern Family. Hyland struggled with a medical condition while filming. As for Ariel Winter, she had to deal with rumors of potentially being fired by Modern Family because of her mother, before she became estranged in her life.

Hyland and Winter also faced complications in terms of their appearances because of their age. In the following, we'll take a closer look at those struggles, and how the duo managed to overcome things. In addition, we're going to take a closer look at other health complications Hyland in particular faced, and how she doesn't remember filming certain episodes.

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Sarah Hyland And Ariel Winter Found It Difficult To Grow Up On Modern Family

We can only imagine the difficulties involved for both Sarah Hyland and Ariel Winter being thrust in the spotlight at such a young age. Ariel Winter was 11 at the start of the show, while Hyland was 18. At a panel appearance back in 2020 at the Television Critics Association, Hyland and Winter talked the difficulties of growing in the public eye. Given that their appearances kept changing, it was a constant struggle behind the scenes.

“It’s really difficult to grow up in front of millions of people who have an opinion on everything you do, and who are allowed to say it at any point. “They] think they know you really well, and they think they can comment on everything you wear, everything you do, or how you grow up and change.” Hyland revealed. "People really love to attack women especially."

Ariel Winter had a similar experience, but things might've been worse for the actress who was going through puberty at the time.

“I especially hated the year I had braces,” Winter recalled. “I do have to say it was a really awkward year for me because I also went through puberty that summer. So it was, like, I had episodes with me in braces. And then over the summer, once we wrapped, I had … other things … and I looked different, but I still wasn’t quite, you know, fully through puberty.”

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The pair had a couple of ways to cope. For one, they turned to one another. Secondly, they weren't afraid to clap back at those that had an opinion about their appearance.

Sarah Hyland And Ariel Winter Leaned On Each Other During The Tough Times

Sarah Hyland is proud of the way she was able to handle all the "hate" along the way. She's especially proud of how she and Winter were able to get witty with their responses to public opinion.

“We have great support in each other,” Winter said.

“It’s made us stronger as we get older.” “I think Ariel is such an amazing woman and has always been so mature and handles it with such grace and poise,” Hyland added. “I think, between the two of us, we really have gone and tackled them with all of our spite and wit.”

As for Winter, she revealed that the experience only made her stronger, developing a "thicker skin."

“It’s still going to bother me. It’s never going to go away,” Winter said. “You’re still human, but you just have to remember these people online and what they’re saying, it’s not your opinion of yourself.”

She continues, “I’ve responded to it in so many different ways. I’d respond back and be salty to somebody that was salty to me, or I’d be respond and try and be nice and hope that maybe their day goes better."

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It was clearly a process for both Hyland and Winter, who were constantly judged. As for Hyland, she faced other serious difficulties behind the scenes, and that included her compromised health.

Sarah Hyland Admits She Doesn't Recall Several Modern Family Episodes

Imagine the scenario of always being in pain for 27 years. According to her words with Yahoo Entertainment, that's what Sarah Hyland faced, going through a kidney disease at the time of the show. The pain got so bad for Hyland, that she forgot about filming certain episodes.

"There are some episodes of Modern Family where I do not remember filming because I was asleep," she said. "Dead ass asleep. The episode where Haley asked [Luke for] money and he's like, 'Don't worry, I've got it on ice.' It's in the freezer or something. The entire episode I was asleep," referring to Oct. 2011's "Hit and Run."

"You have to be a certain level of sick in order to receive a transplant. I was reaching that certain level of sick," she said prior to her first transplant. "I was not able to be awake for eight hours at a time. I was so exhausted. So I'd be on the set, I'd be dead asleep, my head on the table, I would hear, 'and...'" before "action" — the cue taping was to begin — and her head would shoot up and she'd deliver her lines. When they cut, she'd fall back asleep."

A tough time for Hyland. Thankfully, today, the actress is doing much better.

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