Since her debut as Starlight in Prime Video’s first season of The Boys in 2019
Comments online about Moriarty’s appearance have become increasingly worse in recent years.
Many claim the star has had plastic surgery with some calling it an “addiction” and others stating that she had “ruined” her face, which originally led her to delete her social media after posting a lengthy statement.
Moriarty wrote in a now-deleted post back in January, “This is something I truly never anticipated writing.”
“We’re all subject to levels of bullying throughout our lives but I am horrified, and I felt that I deserved to take a second to address these things,” she added.
She continued by stating that she was “horrified by the reaction, the reductive assumptions, and the aforementioned video that is a primary example of such harassment.”
“It’s broken my heart. You’ve broken my heart,” she concluded.
However, she has since reactivated her account and has limited her comments on each post.
She added that she believed that to be the case “because there was so much attention brought to something that I was told never to address.”
Moriarty’s The Boys co-star Karen Fukuhara, who plays Kimiko, told the New York Times: “I was really worried about her for a period of time, nobody is bulletproof, even though I think she’s close to it.”
Amid the online speculation increasing about Moriarty’s appearance, she was harassed both on and offline as paparazzi were eager to get snaps of her in public.
Although the online trolling initially broke her heart, Moriarty has since been contacted by various women online who have reached out with their own stories.
Now she says the whole ordeal has toughened her up.
“I had left it on a note where I’d explicitly said that I had been heartbroken by the comments,” she said.
She added: “Now, I’m not heartbroken. I’m galvanized.”
