Ariel Winter, 17 & newly emancipated, would rather be a lawyer than an actress

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Late last week, 17-year-old Ariel Winter became officially emancipated. This news arrived over two years after Ariel was removed from her mother’s care after very serious abuse allegations. Ariel’s older, Shanelle Gray, sister assumed temporary guardianship, and the Modern Family cast and crew all pitched in to help take care of Ariel. Now Ariel is free, and she’s making big plans. She’s preparing to graduate high school and is already looking at colleges. Ariel’s even thinking about aiming for law school:

Ariel Winter’s recent emancipation isn’t the only big legal plan she’s had brewing.

The 17-year-old Modern Family star tells me that she plans to become a lawyer.

She graduates from high school next year and she’s already looking at colleges.

“I toured around schools in California and I’m going to take a tour of East Coast schools,” Winter said last night at the TV Academy screening of Modern Family’s season finale.

She’s most interested in business and law. “I would love to continue acting but it’s definitely important, I think, to go and do something else as well,” Winter explained. “You never know if something’s not going to work out, if one day acting is like, ‘No, we don’t like you anymore!’ You gotta have something else you can do. I’ve always been interested in law so I think it’ll definitely be something that I’ll love to do and also go to school for.”

[From E! Online]

Ariel’s young, and there’s plenty of time to decide on a career. I think she might be interested in law because she watched some behind-the-scenes workings of her emancipation. Once she gets to college, she’ll probably change her major a few times (like many students do). Experience tells me that a business education is far more practical than a law degree. No disrespect to any of the happy lawyers out there, but career dissatisfaction runs rampant in the field. People usually think legal work is more exciting than it really is. Don’t do it, Ariel! (She’ll be fine. She’s a strong girl.)

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