While one 'Modern Family' star Sofia Vergara starts her new life as a married woman, co-star Reid Ewing is also starting to live a new life with everything out in the open including his sexuality. Last Monday, he confirmed that he is gay.

The admission of his sexuality started on a Twitter post about entirely a different matter as he wrote his comment on a "Good Morning America" feature from 2011. Ewing wrote on Twitter, "Saw Eugene Bata on @GMA in the Body Dysmorphia segment connected to my article and I just want to say he is hot af."

The post included him mentioning how he is attracted to Eugene Bata, which prompted another user directly asking him, "@media_reid Did you also just out yourself?"

Then, Ewing responded to the same conversation, writing, "@MichaelJMapes I was never in." The whole social media conversation was noted by a lot of followers including the media, which sparked news that Ewing had confirmed being gay.

However, the circulating topic was not apparently the one that Ewing wanted to put out. Instead, he was rooting to gain awareness on his mental illness called a Body Dysmorphia, which in his previous essay on the Huffington Post revealed that he is struggling with it.

"Body dysmorphic disorder is a mental illness in which a person obsesses over the way he or she looks. In my case, my looks were the only thing that mattered to me. I had just moved to LA to become an actor and had very few, if any, friends. I'd sit alone in my apartment and take pictures of myself from every angle, analyzing every feature," he wrote in his blog for the Huffington Post titled "I Underwent Cosmetic Surgery for My Body Dysmorphia... And I Wish I Hadn't."

The actor apparently wanted to get the message out there to everyone not to undergo cosmetic surgery unless needed and encourage those struggling with his illness to be confident of themselves.

"Plastic surgery is not always a bad thing. It often helps people who actually need it for serious cases, but it's a horrible hobby, and it will eat away at you until you have lost all self-esteem and joy. I wish I could go back and undo all the surgeries. Now I can see that I was fine to begin with and didn't need the surgeries after all," he added.

Meanwhile, the Los Angeles Times reports that Ewing had since been receiving immense support for sharing his struggles and for speaking about his sexuality.