"I had a lot of back problems. I really couldn't stand up straight for a long period of time. It started to hurt so bad that I couldn't take the pain," she tells Glamour.com. "My neck was hurting so bad and I actually had some problems with my spine. I had been discussing my chest with doctors for many years, but when I finally said, 'I'm thinking of doing this,' he said, 'Your back is going to thank you so much.'"
With her doctor's guidance, she decided not to go bigger than a D or smaller than a C. "I have always been a curvier girl. Always. And I enjoy being a curvier girl. I don't want to be disproportionate again," she explains. "I have a big butt, I like having a big butt. I didn't want to have a big butt and no boobs!"
Winter says she wasn't "hesitant" or "sad" before going under the knife.
Before her breast reduction surgery, Winter says the Modern Family wardrobe department would hide her assets with "big sweaters" or by strapping her down. "I understand that it doesn't fit the character they have in mind. I understand that," she tells the magazine. "But it was difficult to do that every day."