Amy Schumer attends the 2023 Good+Foundation “A Very Good+ Night of Comedy” benefit event at Carnegie Hall on October 18, 2023 in New York City. (Photo by Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images for Good+Foundation)
Comedian Amy Schumer has revealed that she has been diagnosed with Cushing’s syndrome, a week after calling out critics who called her appearance “fat.”
The condition was reportedly caused by Schumer’s high-dose steroid injections, a condition caused by too much cortisol in the body over a long period of time.
According to the Mayo Clinic, symptoms of Cushing’s syndrome include weight gain in the face and body, high blood pressure, bone loss, brittle skin, and fatty lumps between the shoulders. In some cases, it can even lead to type 2 diabetes.
Cushing’s syndrome can sometimes be fatal, requiring brain surgery and removal of the adrenal glands, but in Schumer’s case, thankfully, it’s a “self-limiting type of Cushing.”
The 43-year-old Emmy winner announced her diagnosis Friday in journalist Jessica Yellin’s “News Not Noise” newsletter, and while promoting the Hulu show’s second season, trolls complained about her “bulge.” If he hadn’t attacked her in the face, he added. If she heard “Life & Beth,” she wouldn’t even know anything was wrong.
When Schumer learned of her condition, she told Yellin, “I feel like I’ve been reborn.” “While I was doing press in front of the cameras for my Hulu show, I was in an MRI for four hours at a time, and so much blood was taken that my veins closed and I may not be able to see my son grow up. So finding out that I have a naturally curable form of Cushing’s and that I’m healthy was the biggest news possible.”
While being on camera and having the “internet chime in” during a health crisis was far from ideal, Schumer is now grateful.
“Thank God for that,” she added. “Because then I realized something was wrong.”
She joked that the situation was similar to realizing she had “given a name.” [her] Son, something that didn’t sound very good” – referring to changing son Gene’s middle name from Attel to David when he was 11 months old.Schumer previously revealed that it was the internet that alerted her to her and her husband Chris Fischer’s “accident.”[ally] named [their] My son’s genitals. ”
It was also the internet’s peanut gallery that inspired Schumer to share her Cushing syndrome diagnosis “to advocate for women’s health,” she told Yellin.
“The shaming and criticism of our ever-changing bodies is something I’ve dealt with and witnessed for a long time,” Schumer said. “I want women to love themselves and work tirelessly for their health in a society that usually doesn’t believe in them.”
She called on people to “be a little kinder to each other and to ourselves” because “you never know what’s going on with someone.”
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