After social media users questioned why her face looked “bloated” during the “Life & Beth” promo tour, Amy Schumer is opening up about her recent health diagnosis.
According to the Mayo Clinic, the comedian and actor revealed that he has Cushing’s syndrome, a condition caused by having too much of the hormone cortisol in the body over a long period of time.
Symptoms include a round face, fatty lumps between the shoulders, and pink or purple stretch marks on the skin. According to the Mayo Clinic, it can also lead to high blood pressure, bone loss and type 2 diabetes.
“While I was doing press on camera for my Hulu show, I was also in the MRI machines for four hours at a time, my veins were shutting down due to the amount of blood taken out and thinking maybe I was going to give up on my son. won’t be around to see it grow up, Schumer said on Friday’s edition of Jessica Yellin’s “News Not Noise” newsletter.
He added, “So to find out that I have something like Cushing’s that will work itself out and I’m healthy, it was the greatest fantasy.”
Schumer, who has revealed in the past about having endometriosis, told Yellin that criticism over her appearance while promoting the new season of her Hulu show helped her realize that “something was wrong.”
Addressing the criticism, Schumer told fans in a February 15 Instagram post that “there are some medical and hormonal things going on in my world right now but I’m okay.”
“It’s been a very strange couple of weeks for me and my family,” the comedian told Yellin. “‘Besides the fear about my health, I also had to be in front of the camera with the sound of the Internet. But thank God for that. Because that’s how I realized that something was wrong. … As they say Yes, the Internet is undefeated.”
According to the Mayo Clinic, treatment for Cushing’s syndrome focuses on reducing the amount of cortisol in the body and may include surgery, radiation therapy, and medication.
Schumer said she wanted to share her diagnosis publicly because she wanted to “advocate for women’s health.”
She said, “I want women to love themselves and work tirelessly while fighting for their health in a system that typically doesn’t believe in them.”
