‘The Boys’ Star Erin Moriarty Hits Back At Megyn Kelly After She Accuses Her Of Having Plastic Surgery

Erin Moriarty, star of the popular Prime Video television series, The Boys, fired back at former Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly after she accused her of getting major plastic surgery.

Moriarty, who plays the character of Starlight in the show, posted an Instagram post that denied Kelly’s comments from a recent episode of The Megyn Kelly Show from January 17. She called Kelly’s statements “disgustingly false” and referred to them as an act of “bullying.”

“This is something I truly never anticipated writing,” she stated in her post. “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.”

Kelly aired a segment on the show with The Daily Wire‘s Michael Knowles. In the show, the two discussed the effects of plastic surgery and the spike in the frequency of the “societal addiction” of making changes to the body.

Kelly took two photos of Moriarty and compared them as a “before” and “after” of the surgery, saying, “I thought it was just an AI-generated face… but apparently it’s real,” she said. “She’s done this to herself.”

According to the post from Moriarty, the two photos were taken almost a decade apart. Additionally, she said that the “after” picture was taken after she had her makeup done with extensive contouring that gave the illusion of a changed face. She said that she felt pretty after having that makeup done.

Moriarty has since decided to deactivate her account other than the post addressing the incident. She said 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.”

This is not the only time Kelly has expressed her thoughts about plastic surgery. In 2017, she questioned Jane Fonda about her experience with plastic surgery, which Fonda found offensive.

Last May, in an exclusive uInterview, Moriarty revealed the first experience that made her decide she wanted to become an actress.

“Wow, that’s so funny,” Moriarty laughed. “It’s just so different from what I’m doing now, but it was [acting as] Annie in Annie in New York City and I was really obsessed with musical theater, and that’s what originally got me interested in acting because I just thought it was so fun. I couldn’t imagine anything better. The dancing and the singing and the acting. It just was so fun, and it’s funny because, you know, relative to back, then these characters that I’m playing [now] are so dark, but back then I just remember it was like the pure joy of having so much fun doing something that you could also make your career. [It] was so cool to me and (something) that I didn’t see many people around me doing. It felt like they went to business or medical school because that’s what you did, and at nighttime, they would play music or something like that. My dad, for example, he would have been a musician if he could have done that all the time, and so I think he really encouraged me to just go for it. So that was just an amazing feeling that I could even do that.”