‘The Boys’ Star Erin Moriarty Says She’s Leaving Instagram After Megyn Kelly Criticism

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Erin Moriarty is calling out Megyn Kelly and announcing she is leaving Instagram after all the negativity she’s received following criticism from the former Fox News anchor.

The star of The Boys took to social media to defend herself from accusations that she’s had plastic surgery. “This is something I truly never anticipated writing,” read the statement shared by Moriarty. “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… To receive a message about a disgustingly false, counterproductive to the degree of being ironically misogynistic video of Megyn Kelly commenting on the manner — to learn the widespread nature of this has left me horrified.” On an episode of The Megyn Kelly Show podcast that was shared on Jan.

17, Kelly used the actress as an example of young people turning to plastic surgery. “More and more young women are doing this,” Kelly said on her podcast. “It’s not about an objection to plastic surgery, it’s about an obsession with turning yourself into this fake version of yourself… I find it like a sign of mental illness.

I really want to get in the heads of these young girls and say, ‘Please don’t do this.'” The actress who plays Starlight on The Boys continued, “Megyn used a photo taken ‘a year ago’ according to her, that had in actuality been taken about a decade ago before I was of LEGAL DRINKING AGE (I’m about to turn 30) as an example (maybe do some research that would take 30 seconds).” Moriarty explained that the photo Kelly used to claim she had plastic surgery was when she “got my make up done that day and it involves major contouring and I remember leaving and feeling pretty.” “This is becoming