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“Carry your cup in your hand,” begins a verse from Simon Garfunkel’s 1966 smash hit A Hazy Shade ofWinter, which was covered by The Bangles for the 1987 film Less Than Zero.
“And look around,” the lyrics continue, “Leaves are brown, now/And the sky is a hazy shade of winter.” And concludes on an up note: “Hang on to your hopes, my friend.”
Which is what fans of the budding actress should do … following Mr. Skin’s recent blog post asking, “Ariel-aWinter Watch: Have We Finally Hit the Teat Spot?”
“Just how revealing is Ariel’s top?” the blogger wondered. “That’s up to you and possibly your imagination.”
However, he concluded: “Upon closer consideration, the location on the boob is awfully high for the teat spot. What are your thoughts?”
Readers agreed … the first commenter saying, “It’s way too high to be part of her areola.” And several speculating that it was “double-sided tape” that failed.
And indeed, Ariel has secured her areola in the past with obvious ‘titty tape’:
But, as you know, Sleuth is a D•tective who loves a challenge … so your Famous Shamus took it upon himself {someone had to do it!} to settle the question twice and for all.
For background, he focused on her foreground: Ariel Winter Workman was just 11 when she nabbed the role of nerdy bookworm Alex Dunphy on the acclaimed sitcom Modern Family. The series became the biggest hit on ABC, as Ariel’s cup size grew from A … skipped B altogether … hit a high C by 2012, a neck-nudging D in 2014 … and a full F by early 2015! {trace the Tale of the Tape below}.
“My life changed over the course of a summer,” Winter winces. “I came back to film season 3 of ModernFamily, and I knew that I looked totally different than when we wrapped season 2. Suddenly, I was just over 5 feet tall and was an F-cup.” Clearly, a sign of the times …
“I was 14 years old, and looked 19. Suddenly, people didn’t want to talk about my job—they just wanted to talk about my cleavage.” In truth, notes the Sleuth, she did direct attention to her growth from nerd to absurd!
“It really did happen overnight,” Ariel admits of her unexpected “growth spurt. “I remember being in my sister’s wedding and being so flat and thinking, ‘I just wish I could grow boobs!’ And then overnight I did. But then they kept growing and growing and growing, and it didn’t seem like they were going to stop.”
They didn’t … until she wound up with the same bra size as her outspoken—and out front—costar Sofia ‘I am a 32F boob’ Vergara:
“I was 15 years old with F tits,” Ariel sighs. “How do you navigate that?”
Part•icularly when the actress had to navigate award shows with her series perennially nominated. “Every article that has to do with me on a red carpet had to do with ‘Ariel Winter’s Crazy Cleavage!’ or ‘Ariel Winter Shows Huge Boobs at an Event!’ That’s all people would recognize me by—not, ‘Oh, she does great work on Modern Family.’” A (not so) small sampling of the media focus follows.
At the same time, the top-heavy teen was dealing with some of the heavy aspects of a Modern Family: At age 14, Winter was “removed from her family home” in Oct. 2012 and went to live with her 20-years-older sister Shanelle {the one whose wedding made the youngster wish for ‘boobs’} because, according to court documents filed by the siblings, their domineering Greek mother, Chrisoula Workman, had “abused her, in the form of vile name calling ... and attempts to sexualize minor ... for an extended period of time.”
Mom filed a police report in response, claiming the actress “is retaliating because Workman wouldn’t let her engage in a sexual act with her 18-year-old boyfriend, actor Cameron Palatas” {beware of Greeks …}. Ariel’s mother testified in court that, “I caught my daughter with her boyfriend in bed—she’s 14. He’s 18 and I threw him out and I broke them up.”
In early 2015, ‘The Winter of Discontent’ {the opening line of Shakespeare’s Richard III} took center stage … as Ariel was able to become ‘legally emancipated’ from her parents …
… and the first act of her newfound freedom was to have breast reduction surgery the very next month!
“I got it for myself,” the actress explained of the June 4, 2015 operation. “I can’t even really put into words about how amazing it feels to feel really right” about downsizing from a 32F to a 34D. “My doctor said he didn’t think we should go smaller than a C, and I agreed. And the reason I said that was because I’ve always been a curvier girl. I don’t want to be disproportionate again. I have a big butt, I like having a big butt. I’m Greek. I didn’t want to have a big butt and no boobs.”
Fear not … the paps are still there in full force!
And her voluptuous castmate Vergara “also had my back,” Ariel ass•erts. “I just saw Sofia the other day {just 2 months after surgery} and she was like, ‘Oh, my God! I love them! They’re great!’ She was super supportive.”
Winter could have used some more support—she’s still a D cup after all—when she first revealed her reduced rack to the pack at the 2016 {you can’t make this up!} SAG Awards. “She proudly walked the red carpet in a black, low-back, sideboob-baring gown,” observed the Los Angeles Times … and onlookers observed her still-fresh surgical scars.
“I have felt more happy with myself than I ever have,” Ariel announced post-op … and so was “proud” to display more of herself than perhaps intended.
And when some fans felt more shock than her doc, the teen tweeted a swift response: “Guys there is a reason I didn’t make an effort to cover up my scars!
“They are part of me and I’m not ashamed of them at all. :-)”
Why she was even happy to autograph the ‘stitch in time’ to make the Sleuth scrapbook!
Which brings us full circle to the question of Ariel’s ‘Teat Spot’ posed in the earlier Mr. Skin blog post.
As medical expert Diana Duel recently wrote in discussing Winter: “After the incision is made, the nipple is then repositioned {since the breast area is now smaller}, and the areola reduced by excising skin at the perimeter. However, in cases where the breasts are extremely large and pendulous {like Ariel’s} it may be necessary for the surgeon to remove the nipple and areola and transplant them to a higher position on the breast.”
Which could well be the case with the Modern Familyfox. Sleuth’s ‘research’ has unearthed this braless candid of Ariel this August, in which the left nipple appears higher than the right—and rising to the occasion!
Add to that this partial nip slip sequence in a bikini … confirming that her left areola appears to have been placed above what one would normally expect from such a large and weighty bosom.
So with that background in the forefront, it’s high time we re-examine Ariel’s areola alert.
Especially since Sleuth has been able to uncover two other images from that same night—when the actress was celebrating the birthday of the YouTube celebrity she calls “my missus,” Alexa Losey, on December 1, 2016.
The first “out take” clearly reveals the right nipple of Ariel as she cavorts with her cohorts …
… while the second shows the top of her left areola while cuddling the birthday girl:
Tellingly, there is a white ring encircling the perimeter of Winter’s rosebud—a relatively common occurrence after a breast reduction. “Superficial wound healing problems and/or white scabbing is not unusual after this type of surgery,” confirms Dr. Marwan Khalifeh, a leading plastic surgeon in ritzy Chevy Chase, Maryland.
And the epidermal exposure would seem to be further confirmed by this report from the following morning at EliteDaily.com: “Actress Ariel Winter accidentally flashed her nipple in two different pictures while partying with friends on Thursday night (Dec. 1).
“Sure enough, Winter suffered the ultimate wardrobe malfunction and wound up showing major nipplage slipping out of her top at Alexa Losey’s birthday bash. Look, shit happens, right?” {and right above her, no shit, is juicy gymnast McKayla Maroney!}.
So Sleuth’s verdict—think of it as more of a tip—is that it did indeed happen: That the wait is over and “we finally hit the teat spot” when it comes to Ariel’s areolae! And the answer seems clearer in black and white.
But let’s leave the closing argument to the (34)D•fendant: “Over the years, I’ve struggled with body confidence issues,” Winter concludes. “And so for me, now I post a photo and I don’t care. If somebody doesn’t like what I’m doing, you can unfollow me.”
“In the End, I think it’s all about how you feel—not what other people think.”
So perhaps her writing in the sand can be the final word on her gland.
