Modern family star Reid Ewing confirms he is gay... days after revealing he had painful cosmetic procedures to 'look like Brad Pitt'
Just days after revealing he suffers from body dysmorphic disorder, Modern Family actor Reid Ewing has confirmed he is gay.
The 27-year-old detailed his addiction to cosmetic surgery on The Huffington Post on Thursday and on Saturday, he tweeted he thought a young man featured in a GMA news story about the condition was 'hot af.'
When a fan responded by asking via Twitter if he'd just 'outed himself,' the actor tweeted back: 'I was never in.'
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Out: Reid Ewing, 27, who plays Dylan on ABC's Modern Family, confirmed he is gay in a Twitter exchange with a follower on Saturday
Headline grabber: It's Reid's second big revelation in a week. A few days ago he wrote about his battle with body dysmorphic disorder in a blog on The Huffington Post and detailed his addiction to cosmetic surgery
In fact, his tweets about his sexuality garnered so much attention he created a GIF of Golden Girls star Bea Arthur doing a double take.
He tweeted along with it: 'Writes a cosmetic surgery article, people care more that I'm gay..'
Reid, who plays Dylan in the popular ABC sitcom, said last week he became obsessed with plastic surgery in 2008 when he was 19 and newly arrived in Hollywood.
'I genuinely believed if I had one procedure I would suddenly look like Brad Pitt,' he wrote on the HuffPo blog.
Really? The 27-year-old poked fun at the reaction to his confirmation of his sexuality with this GIF that he tweeted out on Monday
Mental health issue: Reid wrote last week about how he'd started having plastic surgery at 19 after arriving in Hollywood in an effort to 'look like Brad Pitt,' as he revealed he has body dysmorphic disorder
The actor suffered through one surgical procedure after another in the quest for the perfect face, enduring botched operations and addiction to prescription painkillers.
'I woke up screaming my head off from pain, with tears streaming down my face,' he recalled in the article.
'The doctor kept telling me to calm down, but I couldn't. I couldn't do anything but scream, while he and his staff tried seemingly to hold back their laughter.'
Found fame: The actor was cast as Dylan in ABC's Modern Family in 2009, the year after he arrived in Hollywood seeking fame and fortune. He's pictured with Sarah Hyland in season one of the sitcom
Reid said he now regrets all the surgeries he had and would go back and undo them if he could.
He went public in order to publicize what he now considers to be the risks of submitting oneself to the surgeon's knifeand make people more aware of body dysmorphia that's regarded as a serious mental illness.
'Before seeking to change your face, you should question whether it is your mind that needs fixing,' he wrote.
Weaned off: By 2013, he'd decided to stop having surgeries and forgo the injectable fillers and fat transfers he'd been having to alter his features. He's seen here in March of that year
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