Amy Schumer said that comments about her having a ‘moon face’ led to her Cushing syndrome diagnosis. 

If it weren’t for the trolls on social media pointing out her swollen face, she said she wouldn’t have found out she had the condition as quickly as she did. 

On Wednesday, she made an appearance on Call Her Daddy and told podcast host Alex Cooper about how she learned she had the condition. 

‘A year ago, the Internet really came for me,’ the Emmy-winning actress, 43, recalled going viral for her ‘swollen’ face. 

At first, she said she ignored the comments about her appearance until doctors started sharing their thoughts on possible diagnoses.

The comedian — who also made a ‘scary to say’ sex confession during her podcast appearance — ‘I was like, “Okay, everybody, like, relax.”‘

Amy Schumer said that comments about her having a ‘moon face’ led to her Cushing syndrome diagnosis; pictured May 2024 in New York City

Then, she recalled starting to see physicians commenting on her appearance too. 

‘Doctors were chiming in in the comments and they were, like, “No, no, something’s really up. Your face looks so crazy.”‘ 

She noticed that people were speculating that she could have Cushing syndrome — a condition which occurs when the body has too much of the hormone cortisol for a long time, according to the Mayo Clinic.

The condition can result from the body making too much cortisol or taking steroids for an extended period of time. 

Main symptoms of the syndrome include a fatty hump between the shoulders, a rounded face, and pink or purple stretch marks on the skin.

‘At first, I was like, “F*** off,”‘ the stand-up comedian said about seeing an influx of comments about her having a ‘moon face.’ 

Then, she recalled how she was ‘getting steroid injections for my scars’ from her breast reduction surgery and Cesarean section after she and her husband Chris Fischer welcomed their son Gene, now five, in 2019. 

‘So 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,’ the Trainwreck star explained. 

‘A year ago, the Internet really came for me,’ the Emmy-winning actress, 43, recalled going viral for her ‘swollen’ face; pictured February 2024 on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon 

Then, she recalled starting to see physicians commenting on her appearance too. She noticed that people were speculating that she could have Cushing syndrome — a condition which occurs when the body has too much of the hormone cortisol for a long time

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The I Feel Pretty star later revealed that her doctor diagnosed her with Cushing syndrome in February 2024. 

She recalled how she was about to start filming her upcoming comedy movie, Kinda Pregnant, at the time. 

‘I learned I had this condition, and that I had something called moon face, and I’m starring in a movie,’ she said. ‘And there’s a camera right in my face. 

‘Everyone’s like, “You look great,”‘ she recalled until one of her friends shared some blunt honesty and told her that her face looked ‘a little bit insane.’ 

Schumer said she ultimately ‘got rid’ of the syndrome with encouraging words. 

The condition can result from the body making too much cortisol or taking steroids for an extended period of time. Then, she recalled how she was ‘getting steroid injections for my scars’ from her breast reduction surgery and Cesarean section after she and her husband Chris Fischer welcomed their son Gene, now five, in 2019; pictured October 2023

The I Feel Pretty star later revealed that her doctor diagnosed her with Cushing syndrome in February 2024. She recalled how she was about to start filming her upcoming comedy movie, Kinda Pregnant, at the time; pictured October 2023 in New York City

‘I was feeling really down on myself before I started filming this movie,’ she said on the podcast. 

‘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 she started feeling better when director Lorraine Caffery told her: ‘You know, I think you look f***ing great.’ 

Schumer said: ‘I just needed one person to amp me up.’