I was made fun of when I was younger, and so I had insecurities, especially after I moved to L.A. People said I had a “Jay Leno chin”; they’d circle it on blogs and say nasty things. It bothered me. And when I watched myself on The Hills, my ears would be sticking out likle Dumbo! I just wanted to feel more confident and look in the mirror and be like, “Whoa! That’s me!” I was an ugly duckling before.

“It upsets me to see young women in the spotlight advocating plastic surgery. ANY surgery is extremely dangerous&should not be taken lightly,” Emmy Rossum Tweeted on Wednesday. “Much less, used as a tool to increase notoriety or popularity.

“By putting this on magazine covers, we are somehow legitimizing the dangerous lengths to which some will go for fame and ‘beauty,’” she continued. “There are so many REAL ISSUES in this world that NEED attention. Let’s try to take a moment to be grateful we are ALIVE.”

“There r obviously good reasons 4 plastic surgery-its also fine w me if its 4 vanity-but if u have a deep self hatred, surgery wont fix it,” she Tweeted. “Never had plastic surgery-even w wonky teeth & the biggest nose in the biz i feel proud of who i am-but not ruling out when im older though!”