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Amy Schumer Responds to Speculation About Her “Puffier” Face
Amy Schumer is feeling pretty.
The Kinda Pregnant prima shared a candid photograph of herself that she labeled "no filter, nary filler," days aft revealing that comments astir her quality online past twelvemonth led to her Cushing's syndrome diagnosis.
Amy reposted the selfie onto her grid, writing, "What tin I accidental It was a bully night."
The 43-year-old's station came 3 days aft explaining that comments connected societal media astir her "puffier" look weren't each ill-intentioned.
"When I was going through, I conjecture it was similar a twelvemonth ago, and the net truly came for maine aft doing a clump of press, and I was like, 'OK, everybody like, relax,'" she told host Alex Cooper connected the Jan. 22 occurrence of Call her Daddy. "But past doctors were chiming successful in the comments."
Amy went connected to explicate that she noticed aesculapian professionals expressing genuine concern, saying, "'No, no, we deliberation something's truly up. Like, your look looks truthful brainsick and we deliberation something's up.'"
The Trainwreck actress—who shares son Gene, 5, with husband Chris Fischer—recalled however these doctors she had ne'er met were close successful their hypotheses astir her health.
"And I'm like, I'm like, wait, I'm getting trolled by doctors?" Amy said. "They were like, 'We deliberation you person thing called Cushing and it's like, astir spiking cortisol, astir cortisol levels and steroids, injection whatever.'"
When the comedian learned that Cushing syndrome tin beryllium caused from high-dose steroid injections—which she had been getting to dainty scars from a bosom simplification and her C-section—she realized they were onto something. Their suspicions were confirmed erstwhile Amy was diagnosed with Cushing past February, close earlier she started filming Kinda Pregnant successful March.
"Right earlier we started rolling was erstwhile I learned I had this condition," she explained, "and that I had thing called satellite face."
While she was initially frightened she had the mentation of Cushing wherever "you could die," which led her to beryllium "really down" connected herself during that time, she yet learned that she had a benignant that she could overcome.
"So anyway, I got escaped of [it]," Amy said. “Like, it conscionable has to enactment itself out."
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Those sentiments echoed what she said erstwhile she initially shared the quality of her diagnosis with the nationalist a twelvemonth ago.
"Finding retired I person the benignant of Cushing that volition conscionable enactment itself retired and I'm healthy," Amy said astatine the time, "was the top quality imaginable."
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