"Compassion Is Key": Actress Still Upset About "Family Guy" Meme She Says Caused Anxiety, Body Dysmorphia

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Chloë Grace Moretz is still not over being the subject of a meme, claiming the
experience has had lasting impacts on her mental health and even her Hollywood
career.

The 25-year-old actress addressed the joke once again while speaking with
Entertainment Tonight during a red-carpet appearance this week.

“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,” she said at the premiere of her Amazon sci-fi series “The
Peripheral.”

“I think compassion is key and I hope that the world can have a little bit more
of that.”

Moretz is still affected by a photoshopped image of her that went viral. It
shows the actress wearing shorts and carrying a pizza, but someone altered the
original to shorten Moretz’s torso and lengthen her legs. This drew comparisons
to a “Family Guy” character named Legs Go All The Way Up Griffin from the
episode “Amish Guy.”

Chloë Grace Moretz: I suffered body dysmorphia after 'Family Guy' meme
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— New York Post (@nypost) September 28, 2022

The “Kick Ass” star previously revealed how the meme emotionally scarred her
during an interview with Hunger magazine in September.

“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,”
she recalled.

“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.”

Moretz said that even now, seeing the meme is “very hard for me to overcome”
and that she “became a recluse” and had anxiety over getting photographed after
that happened.

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