Amy Schumer Says Comments About Her 'Moon Face' Led to Cushing Syndrome Diagnosis: 'I Wouldn't Have Known'

Mar. 15, 2025

Amy Schumer (left) in February 2024 and (right) in March 2022.Photo:Todd Owyoung/NBC/Getty; Karwai Tang/Getty

Todd Owyoung/NBC/Getty; Karwai Tang/Getty

Amy Schumersays she wouldn’t have known she had Cushing syndrome if it weren’t for Internet trolls.

“A year ago, the Internet really came for me,” Schumer, 43, toldAlex Cooperon the Jan. 22 episode of theCall Her Daddypodcast, sharing that commenters were criticizing her suddenlyswollen face.

Amy Schumer appears on the Jan. 22 episode of Alex Cooper’s “Call Her Daddy.".Call Her Daddy/Youtube

Call Her Daddy/Youtube

“At first, I was like, ‘F—k off,’ “ Schumer said, until she realized “Wait, I have been getting steroid injections for my scars” from her breast reduction and Cesarean section.  (Schumer andhusband Chris Fischerwelcomed sonGene, 5,in 2019.)

“So I got these was getting these steroid injections and so it gave me this thing called Cushing syndrome — which I wouldn’t have known if the internet hadn’t come for me so hard,” explained Schumer, who first shared herCushing diagnosisin February 2024.

Amy Schumer stars in the Netflix comedy “Kinda Pregnant.".Spencer Pazer/Netflix

Spencer Pazer/Netflix

The comic told Cooper that right before shebegan shootingthe comedyKinda Pregnant,which premieres on Netflix Feb. 5, “I learned I had this condition, and that I had something called moon face, and I’m starring in a movie — and there’s a camera right in my face.”

“Everyone’s like, ‘You look great,’ ” she said, until one friend gave her the blunt truth, telling Schumer, “Your face is looking, like, a little bit insane.”

Schumer explained that she “got rid” of Cushing, telling Cooper “it just has to work itself out,” but before she began filming, she was worried about her on-screen appearance, saying, “I was feeling really down on myself before I started filming this movie … I was, like, really having trouble figuring out how I was going to star in a movie while I had this going on.”

She said it took one friend, director Lorraine Caffery, who told her, “ ‘You know, I think you look f—ing great.”

“I just needed one person to just amp me up.”

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