Modern Family star Ariel Winter sent a text message to her brother asking him to relay a blunt message to her mother -- her decision to send flowers to her was "retarded" and "INSANELY inappropriate."

The actress fired off the missive, obtained exclusively by Breaking Celebrity News, to her brother Jimmy Workman, the ex-child star known for playing the role of Pugsley Addams in The Addams Family, around the time of her 15th birthday in late January.