How Ariel Winter Navigated Her Especially Rocky Transition Away From Child Stardom
Because it’s hard to feel too down when everything is going so right. Having moved on from three-year romances with high school sweetheart Laurent Claude Gaudette and actor Levi Meaden, the Campbell Hall grad is one year deep into a relationship with 25-year-old actor Luke Benward.
Together, they recently wrapped the short Boys (directed by Benward) and are hard at work, starring in and producing the thriller Don’t Log Off. “Watching you create is somethin’ special,” she wrote in an October Instagram tribute, “and I know this is just the beginning. Can’t wait to keep growing, building, creating and achieving together.”
With Modern Family having wrapped its 11-season run, the actress, who put her studies at UCLA on hold to focus on her career, is eyeing whatever opportunity may come her way.
“It’s pretty insane that I’ve basically spent half of my life on the show, but it really has been an amazing experience for me,” she shared on Good Morning America in 2019. “I work with amazing people, and I honestly am so grateful for everything I’ve done and all the people I’ve met. They’re basically a family I grew up with—the crew, the cast, everybody—so it is crazy to be doing something for that long because most shows don’t go that long, and we are so beyond lucky that we have.”