Chloë Grace Moretz Addresses ‘Family Guy’ Meme: ‘It Made Me Super Self-Conscious’
Chloë Grace Moretz, who is set to star in the upcoming Prime Video sci-fi drama The Peripheral, has been opening up about her experiences with fame, including her thoughts on that infamous Family Guy meme.
In an interview with Hunger magazine, Moretz revealed that she became suddenly aware of her fame when she was 18. “It hit me like a ton of bricks,” she said. “I was 18 and doing a red carpet. I walked off of it, and I felt so much self-loathing and was really confused about the experience that just went down. I was really unwell after that.”
She went on to talk about her run-ins with the paparazzi, highlighting a particular photo taken of her, where she’s walking into a hotel carrying a pizza box. The photo went on to become a viral social media meme after people compared it to a character from Family Guy.
“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,” Moretz explained. “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.”
Moretz revealed that those around her played down the situation, but it made her “super self-conscious” about her body image. “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.”
The Kick-Ass star revealed that the photo still haunts her all these years later. “It was something so benign as walking into a hotel with leftovers,” she said. “And to this day, when I see that meme, it’s something very hard for me to overcome.”
The Peripheral, Premieres, October 21, Prime Video
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If a pretty girl like Chloe is picked apart for not being 100% perfect, we're all doomed.
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Girl relax you looked like Ram-Man in one photo.
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That meme is 🔥
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Seems libelous to link to a photoshopped image without calling out the fact that it's not the original photo.
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Love it
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Hilarious
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Shit looks spot on
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Women will always lose in this world! You either look too pretty and get mocked for it or you look different and still get mocked for it. Some sad individual thought, 'wow look at her legs, she looks amazing! Let's Photoshop it because I'm jealous and have no confidence in my own apperance'
Chloe, you should never feel any doubt in how you look! You are beautiful ♥️
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You wont see male stars who are overweight or have other body issues joked about in this way
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That’s cap and you know it
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Clearly, you’ve never watched Family Guy.
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Ok. I hear her, but maybe NOT wear a top and NOTHING ELSE?? Just sayin,,
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HUH? Maybe not wear a top and nothing else? It makes no sense!
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Maybe she wears what the hell she likes? Just sayin.
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Triggered
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She was wearing shorts too…
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Right?
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The picture was photoshopped to make her look like the character. In the actual photo she looks perfectly normal with a shirt and shorts clearly visible well beneath the pizza box.
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