Watch: Amy Schumer Responds to Speculation About Her “Puffier” Face
Amy Schumer is looking back at how her followers helped her reach a medical diagnosis.
Nearly one year after sharing her diagnosis of Cushing’s syndrome, a disorder that occurs when your body makes too much of the hormone cortisol, the comedian detailed how comments about her “puffier” face—especially from doctors—led to finally getting to the bottom of what was going on with her body.
“When I was going through, I guess it was like a year ago, and the internet really came for me after doing a bunch of press, and I was like, ‘OK, everybody like, relax,'” Schumer said on the Jan. 22 episode of the Call Her Daddy podcast. “But then doctors were chiming in in the comments.”
The 43-year-old continued, “And they were like, ‘No, no, we think something’s really up. Like, your face looks so crazy and we think something’s up.'”
It was that concern that led to her seeing the comments through a different lens. “And I’m like, I’m like, wait, I’m getting trolled by doctors?” she noted. “They were like, ‘We think you have something called Cushing and it’s like, about spiking cortisol, about cortisol levels and steroids, injection whatever.”
Flash forward to last February when the I Feel Pretty actress confirmed that she had been diagnosed with Cushing syndrome caused from high-dose steroid injections. In her conversation with Alex Cooper, Schumer revealed what they were for.
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“I was like, wait, I have been getting steroid injections for my scars,” the Trainwreck actress said on Call Her Daddy. “I had a breast reduction, you know, C-section, whatever.”
Schumer—who shares son Gene, 5, with husband Chris Fischer—confirmed she received her diagnosis not long before she started filming her upcoming Netflix comedy movie, Kinda Pregnant, in March.
“Right before we started rolling was when I learned I had this condition,” she explained, “and that I had something called moon face.”
Schumer said she initially feared the worst. “There are two kinds of Cushing and [with] one of them, you could die,” she recalled. “And so for like, 24 hours, I was like, I’m dead. So I was feeling really down on myself before I started filming this movie.”
However, these days, she is on the mend. “So anyway, I got rid of [it],” she emphasized. “Like, it just has to work itself out.”
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