Amy Schumer’s new Netflix movie Kinda Pregnant explores the hilarious story of a woman who pretends to be pregnant for special perks—like a seat on the subway. But while promoting the film, the 43-year-old is opening up about her own pregnancy—and how intense the experience was for her.
This isn’t the first time that Amy has spoken out about her “scary” and “brutal” pregnancy. Here’s what she’s shared over the years—and how her son Gene is doing now.
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Amy experienced hyperemesis gravidarum during her pregnancy.
In 2018, Amy shared with fans on Instagram that she needed to cancel a tour date after struggling with severe morning sickness, a condition known as hyperemesis gravidarum.
“I have been really looking forward to these shows. I have to reschedule,” she wrote at the time, per CNN. “I am in the hospital. I’m fine. Baby’s fine but everyone who says the 2nd trimester is better is not telling the full story. I’ve been even more ill this trimester.”
Amy continued, “I have hyperemesis and it blows. Very lucky to be pregnant but this is some bullsh*t!”
The condition can cause debilitating nausea and vomiting that can “diminish a woman’s quality of life,” according to the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG).
She had a ‘scary’ C-section.
When it came time to give birth, Amy didn’t have an easy experience, either.
“I was throwing up through the first hour of my C-section,” she shared on the Informed Pregnancy and Parenting Podcast in 2019. “It’s supposed to take about an hour and a half. Mine took over three hours because of my endometriosis.”
Amy originally planned to give birth with a doula, but decided to do a C-section after she continued to get sick.
“It was a rainy Sunday and I woke up vomiting and was like the sickest I’d been the whole time,” she said. “I was like, ‘I can’t do this anymore.’ I was so big and I was so miserable and couldn’t keep anything down.”
Gene’s birth was “kind of brutal” and “torture,” Amy said, but her symptoms of hyperemesis gravidarum disappeared after her son was born. However, Amy wishes she’d know that pregnancy is “really hard” and “life-threatening” beforehand, she recently told Us Weekly.
She later had a hysterectomy and appendectomy to treat her endometriosis.
Amy has been open about struggling with endometriosis for years. Two years after having her son, Amy had a hysterectomy to remove her uterus to treat her endometriosis.
Amy shared several posts about the experience on Instagram, including one where she broke down just how bad her endometriosis had gotten. “I had a tumor in my endo ravaged appendix. Chocolate cysts in both ovaries. Endo of the uterus, psoas all over all my lifelong pain explained and lifted out of my body,” she wrote in 2021. “I am already a changed person. I am busting with joy for the new energy I have to be with my son.”
Amy later shared that she had actually bronzed her uterus after it was removed. “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 said during a 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.”
She shares son Gene with husband Chris Fischer.
Amy’s son Gene was born in 2019, and she’s regularly talked about how much she loves being a mom. “I just want to be with him as much as I can,” she told People in 2022. “I’m very grateful to be able to work and have time for myself also. But it’s brutal. It hurts. I mean, like, there’s no way. It’s a painful thing.”
In November, Amy hilariously shared an Instagram video about how hilarious—and tough—it is to have a 5-year-old, pulling several rolls of toilet paper out of the full bathtub while stepping around a debris that looks like it was thrown on the bathroom floor. “It’s not at all challenging,” she joked. “Yeah, no, I like it….we’re just enjoying the ups and downs of obedience and enjoying our success.”
Korin Miller is a freelance writer specializing in general wellness, sexual health and relationships, and lifestyle trends, with work appearing in Men’s Health, Women’s Health, Self, Glamour, and more. She has a master’s degree from American University, lives by the beach, and hopes to own a teacup pig and taco truck one day.
