“My face is in the news,” Amy Schumer wondered on Instagram after appearing on Jimmy Fallon's
The Tonight Show
on February 13.
After receiving numerous comments on her “swollen face”, the 42-year-old American comedian reacted in a message published on her Instagram account on February 15.
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Endometriosis
It all started with a tweet published following his television appearance.
“I’m going to need the advice of all the surgeons and doctors.
Serious question: what happened to Amy's face?
Is it normal for it to be this size?” asked Jebra Faushay, an academic specializing in gender studies, in a publication on X (formerly Twitter).
Numerous guesses from other Internet users about Amy Schumer's state of health then followed.
“Thank you very much for your comments on my face!”, she responded on Instagram in the caption of the poster announcing the new season of
Life and Beth
, a series written and directed by the comedian and in which she plays the character main.
“You're right, he's more bloated than normal right now,” she wrote.
And added: “I have endometriosis, an autoimmune disease that all women should know about.
There are some medical and hormonal things going on for me at the moment, but I’m doing well.”
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Accept your body
This confession made, Amy Schumer however wanted to remind us that “a woman needs no excuse to justify her physical appearance and owes no explanation to anyone.”
The opportunity for her to plead loud and clear for “self-love” and “acceptance of our body as it is”: “Like all other women/people, there are days when I feel confident and good about myself”, others where this is not the case.
“But I feel strong and beautiful and so proud of this TV show that I created,” she said.
And the comedian concludes, full of seriousness this time: “Maybe we can concentrate a little on that.”