Amy Schumer wishes she knew a little more about pregnancy before becoming a mom.
“It’s really hard,” the actress, 43, exclusively told Us Weekly on Monday, February 3, at the New York City premiere of her new movie, Kinda Pregnant. “And that it’s life-threatening.”
Schumer added that those aspects of pregnancy are “not really something that’s talked about.”
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Schumer stars in Kinda Pregnant alongside Jillian Bell, Will Forte, Brianne Howey, Damon Wayans Jr. and more. The Netflix comedy — which drops Wednesday, February 5 — follows Schumer’s character, Lainey, who decides to wear a fake pregnant belly out of jealousy when her best friend is actually expecting a baby. During her faux pregnancy, Lainey ends up meeting the man of her dreams.
Amy Schumer Bronzed Her Uterus After Having It Surgically Removed
While Schumer’s character is clueless about pregnancy in the film, the comedian has been candid about her difficult path to parenthood since welcoming son Gene with her husband, Chris Fischer. Schumer previously revealed that she underwent a “scary” C-section that ended up being three hours long.
“I was throwing up through the first hour of my C-section,” she recalled during a December 2019 episode “Informed Pregnancy and Parenting Podcast,” adding, “It’s supposed to take about an hour and a half. Mine took over three hours because of my endometriosis.”
Two years after giving birth, Schumer underwent surgery to remove her uterus after a long struggle with endometriosis, which is a condition that causes abnormal tissue growth in and around the uterus.
“It’s the morning after my surgery for endometriosis and my uterus is out,” she said in a September 2021 Instagram video. “The doctor found 30 spots of endometriosis that he removed. He removed my appendix because the endometriosis had attacked it. There was a lot, a lot of blood in my uterus and I’m, you know, sore and I have some, like, gas pains. But, other than that, I already feel that my energy is [returning].”
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After undergoing the surgery, Schumer revealed that she kept her uterus as a souvenir.
“Jason [Bateman] asked me one time, like, very rudely, because I actually had my uterus removed and he was like, ‘Did you save it?’ And I was like, ‘I actually did save it,’” she explained during a March 2024 episode of the “SmartLess” podcast. “I had it bronzed, you know, because of how difficult my pregnancy was. I didn’t even think of this, but I get the chance to show this to you.”
Kinda Pregnant hits Netflix on Wednesday, February 5.
With reporting by Antonio Ferme
Us Weekly
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