{"id":858551,"date":"2025-06-27T22:13:32","date_gmt":"2025-06-28T03:13:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/27\/moon-face-internet-users-helped-amy-schumer-to-find-out-the-problem-after-pregnancy\/"},"modified":"2025-06-27T22:13:32","modified_gmt":"2025-06-28T03:13:32","slug":"moon-face-internet-users-helped-amy-schumer-to-find-out-the-problem-after-pregnancy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/27\/moon-face-internet-users-helped-amy-schumer-to-find-out-the-problem-after-pregnancy\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Moon Face,&#8221; Internet Users Helped Amy Schumer to Find Out the Problem After Pregnancy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>During an <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/amy-schumer-kinda-pregnant-cushing-syndrome-moon-face-call-her-daddy-8778509\">interview<\/a> with Alex Cooper, Amy shared that people on the internet were suddenly criticizing her appearance \u2014 especially the way her face looked.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA year ago, the Internet really came for me,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>At first, she brushed it off, \u201cI was like, \u2018<strong>Okay, everybody, like, relax.<\/strong>\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But things got weird when doctors began joining in on the conversation \u2014 not to be rude, but to point out that something might actually be wrong, \u201cDoctors were chiming in in the comments, and they were, like, \u2018No, no \u2026 something&#8217;s really up.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>After seeing those comments, Amy decided to get checked out. That\u2019s when she <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/amy-schumer-kinda-pregnant-cushing-syndrome-moon-face-call-her-daddy-8778509\">learned<\/a> she had <strong>Cushing syndrome<\/strong>, a condition where your body has <strong>too much <a href=\"http:\/\/brightside.me\/tags\/cortisol\/\" title=\"cortisol\" data-link=\"tag\">cortisol<\/a>, a stress hormone<\/strong>. It\u2019s often caused by long-term steroid use and can lead to symptoms like weight gain, <a href=\"http:\/\/brightside.me\/tags\/acne\/\" title=\"acne\" data-link=\"tag\">acne<\/a>, and a very puffy face, sometimes called \u201c<strong>moon face<\/strong>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She found out about this right before filming her Netflix movie, <i>Kinda Pregnant<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI learned I had this condition, and that I had something called moon face, and I&#8217;m starring in a movie \u2014 and there&#8217;s a camera right in my face.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Amy eventually realized the cause: she had been getting <strong>steroid injections <\/strong>to treat scars from her breast reduction surgery and C-section, <strong>\u201cWait, I have been getting steroid injections for my scars.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Amy and her husband Chris Fischer welcomed their son Gene in 2019, and the injections were part of her recovery.<\/p>\n<p>Thankfully, Amy says the <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/amy-schumer-kinda-pregnant-cushing-syndrome-moon-face-call-her-daddy-8778509\">condition<\/a> cleared up on its own.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> Blythe Mayoral <br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/brightside.me\/articles\/moon-face-internet-users-helped-amy-schumer-to-find-out-the-problem-after-pregnancy-828726\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During an interview with Alex Cooper, Amy shared that people on the internet were suddenly criticizing her appearance \u2014 especially the way her face looked. \u201cA year ago, the Internet really came for me,\u201d she said. At first, she brushed it off, \u201cI was like, \u2018Okay, everybody, like, relax.\u2019\u201d But things got weird when doctors<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":858552,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2448,22504],"tags":[6865,5413],"class_list":{"0":"post-858551","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-internet","8":"category-users","9":"tag-internet","10":"tag-users"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/858551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=858551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/858551\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/858552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=858551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=858551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=858551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}