Amy Schumer Claims She Had a ‘Botched Colonoscopy’
Amy Schumer will all the time maintain it actual — it doesn’t matter what.
“I feel happier than I’ve ever been before,” Schumer, 44, stated throughout a “Not Skinny But Not Fat” podcast occasion with Dear Media. “I actually had, kind of, a botched colonoscopy, so I’m not feeling very sexual.”
A colonoscopy is an outpatient process through which a physician examines the massive gut by a microscopic digicam to display for colorectal most cancers. While the comic didn’t elaborate additional on the alleged colonoscopy Mishap, she has beforehand been candid about her well being challenges.
“I feel reborn,” Schumer wrote in a 2024 issue of the “News Not Noise” newsletterconfirming that she had been identified with exogenous Cushing syndrome. “There are a few types of Cushing’s. Some that can be fatal, require brain surgery or removal of adrenal glands.”
Cushing syndrome is commonly introduced on by high-dose steroid injections, and is characterised by a spherical, crimson and full face, in addition to skinny pores and skin and weight acquire. Per the Mayo Clinic, Cushing happens when the physique has an extra of the hormone cortisol.
Schumer was identified after receiving an onslaught of on-line feedback about her supposedly puffy face.
“I 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,” she said on the “Call Her Daddy” podcast in 2025. “I learned that I had something called ‘moon face,’ and I’m starring in a movie [Netflix’s Kinda Pregnant] and there’s a camera in my face, and I’m like, ‘Oh my God.’ “I was feeling really down on myself before I started filming this movie.”
As Schumer began to really feel higher because of her pals’ assist, the swelling started to dissolve on her personal. The actress has additionally been on a weight reduction journey, entrusting GLP-1 drugs to slim down.
“Three years ago, I tried Wegovy. I was puking, I couldn’t handle it. I don’t know if they’ve changed the formula, whatever,” she stated in a March 2025 social media video. “I went on this Telehealth meeting with Midi Health, and it was cheap. I wanted to try it myself ’cause I wanted to recommend it to my friends who are nurses and teachers. They put me on estrogen and progesterone because I realized I was in perimenopause and my symptoms from being perimenopause have disappeared.”
She continued, “My hair is fuller, my skin is better, I have more energy, I want to get down more, if you know what I mean. I’m talking about sex. So that’s been great and Mounjaro’s been great.”
Schumer is at the moment separated from estranged husband Chris Fischerwith whom she shares are Gene.
