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Amy Schumer “owes no explanation” for her appearance.
The writer and comedian, who has been doing press ahead of the Season 2 premiere of her Hulu comedy, “Life & Beth,” took to social media Thursday to address recent comments about her face and took the opportunity to give more visibility to endometriosisa condition in which tissue resembling cells found in the lining of the uterus grows outside the organ.
“Thank you so much for everyone’s input on my face! I have enjoyed the comments and deliberation about my appearance as all women do for almost 20 years. And you are right, it is puffier than normal right now,” she wrote Schumer in legend. from his Instagram postwhich included promotional art for “Life & Beth”, co-starring Michael Cera.
She explained that she has endometriosis, a diagnosis the actor has been open about before, and that “there are some medical and hormonal things going on in my world right now, but I’m fine.”
Schumer went on to denounce the lack of funding for research on health issues affecting “women’s bodies,” compared to men’s. The cause of endometriosis is still unknown and there is no cure. It also usually affects fertility.
“I also believe that a woman doesn’t need any excuse for her physical appearance and doesn’t owe any explanation. But I wanted to take the opportunity to advocate for self-love and acceptance of the skin you’re in,” she added. “I feel strong and beautiful and very proud of this TV show (‘Life & Beth’) that I created. I wrote. I starred in and I directed. Maybe we can focus on that for a while.”
Amy Schumer had her uterus removed during endometriosis surgery: ‘It’s going to change my life’
In September 2021, more than two years after giving birth to her son Gene and Chris Fischer, Schumer underwent surgery to address her endometriosis symptoms. She shared on Instagram that both her uterus and appendix were removed during the procedure due to the aggressive nature of her case.
“The doctor found 30 spots of endometriosis and removed them. He removed my appendix because the endometriosis had attacked it.” And he added: “There was a lot, a lot of blood in my uterus, and I’m, you know, sore and I have some gas pains.”
In a follow-up video Posted the next day, Schumer added that she wants to “raise awareness” about endometriosis, saying the condition is “really painful and debilitating, and you don’t have to live with it.”
“I feel very hopeful and very glad I did it, and I think it’s going to change my life,” she said of her procedure.
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Bindi Irwin and Gabrielle Union among celebrities who have opened up about endometriosis
Schumer isn’t the only one who has expressed her opinion about how endometriosis has affected her life and fertility. Actress Gabrielle Union-Wade, “Star Wars” franchise star Daisy Ridley, dancer Julianne Hough and writer and actress Lena Dunham are among those in Hollywood who have advocated for greater awareness of the medical condition.
About 10% of people with a uterus worldwide who are of reproductive age live with endometriosis, according to the World Health Organization.
Dunham revealed in an essay from Vogue 2018 who had undergone a hysterectomy to remove her cervix and uterus at age 31 after living with pain that had become “unbearable” for which doctors could not find a reason.
During the procedure, she wrote, doctors discovered that “in addition to endometrial disease, a strange hump-shaped lump, and a septum running down the middle, I have had retrograde bleeding, also known as my period running backwards, so “that my stomach is full of blood. My ovary has settled into the muscles around the sacral nerves in my back that allow us to walk. Please let’s not even talk about my uterine lining,” she wrote.
She added: “Because I had to work so hard to have my pain recognized, there was no time to feel fear or grief. To say goodbye. I made a decision that was never an option for me, but grief feels like a luxury that I don’t have.”
Contributing: Jenna Ryu, USA TODAY
