Erin Moriarty recently shared how she is no longer “heartbroken” over people trolling her online, following months of fans questioning her appearance and body.
Moriarty is best known for playing the fictional superhero Annie January in Prime Video’s live-action The Boys series.
Her character played a large part in her personal growth of fame.
The Boys actress has gained a large fanbase throughout the years, with her Instagram follow account currently being over 2.4 million.
Since her rise to fame, fans and trolls alike have questioned Moriarty’s appearance with many believing the star has had plastic surgery.
Some comments over the years included people stating she had “ruined” her face with others labelling her alleged surgeries as an “addiction.”
This originally led to Moriarty addressing the constant speculation before deactivating her social media accounts altogether.
While addressing the hurtful comments in a lengthy statement, Moriarty expressed how the whole situation was heartbreaking.
“This is something I truly never anticipated writing,” she began in her post.
She continued: “We’re all subject to levels of bullying throughout our lives but I am horrified, and I felt that I deserved to take a second to address these things.”
She added how she was “horrified by the reaction, the reductive assumptions, and the aforementioned video that is a primary example of such harassment.”
“It’s broken my heart.”
“You’ve broken my heart.”
Sometime later, Moriarty reactivated her social media accounts and began to post again, this time around limiting the ability for people to comment.
While addressing the situation with The New York Times, The Boys actress admitted that “for a few months, I thought my career was over.”
She explained that this was “because there was so much attention brought to something that I was told never to address.”
Her The Boys co-star Karen Fukuhara, who plays Kimiko, said in the same interview: “I was really worried about her for a period of time, nobody is bulletproof, even though I think she’s close to it.”
Moriarty added how although she was initially hurt by the online comments, the situation eventually made her skin tougher.
“I had left it on a note where I’d explicitly said that I had been heartbroken by the comments,” she said.
“Now, I’m not heartbroken. I’m galvanized.”
Featured image credit: Prime Video / Instagram/erinelairmoriarty
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Absurd proportions to the point where now (in addition to permanent duck lips) she sounds like someone practicing to be a ventriloquist. And nobody wants to hear how unattainable beauty standards are to blame, because you’ve got to have serious underlying issues to
She might want to ease off the comparisons with inanimate objects seeing as how whatever she’s had done, has impacted her ability to speak clearly. every season of the show has seen Ms Moriarty’s face take on more and more
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This can’t be undone.