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Chloë Grace Moretz has been acting since she was a child and growing up in front of the cameras has not been easy. The actor recently opened up about a Family Guy meme that made her self-conscious and had her become a “recluse.”
“There was one meme that really affected me, of me walking into a hotel with a pizza box in my hand,” Moretz told Hunger Magazine of the horrific meme. “And this photo got manipulated into a character from Family Guy with the long legs and the short torso, and it was one of the most widespread memes at the time.”
The Kick-Ass alum said she “felt really raw and vulnerable and open,” once she became aware that her private life couldn’t be maintained that way as she gained notoriety. Becoming a meme was something that made Moretz feel powerless and more so when her feelings were shut down when she raised concerns over it.
“Everyone was making fun of my body and I brought it up with someone and they were like, ‘Oh, shut the f*** up, it’s funny.’ And I just remember sitting there and thinking, my body is being used as a joke and it’s something that I can’t change about who I am, and it is being posted all over Instagram,” she said.
After becoming a meme on social media she said she “was kind of sad,” explaining, “It took a layer of something that I used to enjoy, which was getting dressed up and going to a carpet and taking a photo, and made me super self-conscious. And I think that body dysmorphia – which we all deal with in this world – is extrapolated by the issues of social media. It’s a headf***.”
Moretz mentioned that she “became a recluse” after the meme went viral and started to evade photographers as she was finally able to be herself.
“At the same time it made me severely anxious when I was
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a cruel “Family Guy” meme that went viral in 2016.The 25-year-old actress is revealing what she hopes fans will take away from her September Hunger magazine profile, in which she says the meme made her a “recluse.”“I think the big thing is that compassion is a really key thing in humanity and just being kind with the words that you say with one another, the things you say online,” Moretz told Entertainment Tonight, while walking the red carpet at “The Peripheral” premiere on Tuesday.She continued: “I think compassion is key and I hope that the world can have a little bit more of that.”The paparazzi photo that Moretz is discussing in detail, shows her carrying a pizza box and wearing a black top, heels and shorts.People drew comparisons to the “Family Guy” character Legs Go All the Way Up Griffin in an episode of the show called, “Amish Guy.” People edited the photo of the “Kick-Ass” star so that her midsection looked shorter and her legs looked longer.
Chloë Grace Moretz is opening up about what she hopes fans take away from her recently addressing the horrific meme that was a total «headf**k,» and she can sum it up with just two words — more compassion.While walking the red carpet for Prime Video's premiere at the famed Ace Hotel in downtown Los Angeles on Tuesday night, the 25-year-old actress told ET she hopes there's more compassion in this world after revealing the impact the meme had on her life for the better part of a year.Last month, Moretz, for the first time, told that she «basically became a recluse» after she was bombarded with the meme born out of a photo of her walking into a hotel with a pizza box in her hand. That photo, she said, «got manipulated into a character from with the long legs and the short torso, and it was one of the most widespread memes at the time.»«Everyone was making fun of my body and I brought it up with someone and they were like, 'Oh, shut the f**k up, it's funny.' And I just remember sitting there and thinking, my body is being used as a joke and it's something I can't change about who I am, and it is being posted all over Instagram,» she recalled to the outlet.
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Chloe Grace Moretz opened up about the dark side of being turned into a meme.
Zack Sharf Chloë Grace Moretz spoke bluntly to Hunter magazine about becoming a “recluse” after her body dysmorphia was exacerbated by “horrific” memes on social media, most notably one meme comparing her body to a “Family Guy” character. The viral meme, which ridiculed the actor’s body, was created after a photographer snapped a picture of Moretz walking into a hotel carrying a pizza box. “Then came the onslaught of horrific memes that started getting sent to me about my body,” Moretz said. “I’ve actually never really talked about this, but there was one meme that really affected me, of me walking into a hotel with a pizza box in my hand. And this photo got manipulated into a character from ‘Family Guy’ with the long legs and the short torso, and it was one of the most widespread memes at the time.”
Hunger Magazine that the “joke” often posted on Twitter forced her to retract from the public eye.“There was one meme that really affected me, of me walking into a hotel with a pizza box in my hand,” the 25-year-old said.Moretz explained that “this photo got manipulated into a character from ‘Family Guy’ with the long legs and the short torso, and it was one of the most widespread memes at the time.”The photograph was from 2016 when carried the two pizza boxes while sporting an outfit consisting of heels and shorts. The paparazzi snapshot was then edited into looking like her midsection was shortened and her legs were overly long.
Chloë Grace Moretz opened up about her struggles with body dysmorphia and anxiety after becoming the target of viral social media memes. In a recent interview with Hunger magazine, the 25-year-old actress revealed she sought therapy after intense online scrutiny made her "super self-conscious" about her body. "I had to work through that," Moretz explained.