{"id":341,"date":"2022-03-25T23:12:10","date_gmt":"2022-03-25T23:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mewetoo.com\/blog\/?p=341"},"modified":"2022-03-25T23:12:10","modified_gmt":"2022-03-25T23:12:10","slug":"amy-schumer-feels-free-after-sharing-about-her-teenage-hair-pulling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mewetoo.com\/blog\/341\/amy-schumer-feels-free-after-sharing-about-her-teenage-hair-pulling\/","title":{"rendered":"Amy Schumer feels free after sharing about her teenage hair-pulling"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Amy Schumer in “I Feel Pretty”<\/p><\/div>\n

Love Amy Schumer movies, like “Trainwreck” and “I Feel Pretty”; they are so funny! Now Schumer is sharing something more serious, her real life-long struggle with trichotillomania, the compulsive urge to pull out her hair.\u00a0 She has shared about her struggles with endometriosis, Lyme disease, and even more personal stuff like having a sex life after giving birth, but she has kept her hair-pulling problems to herself, until deciding to include it on her new Hulu\u00a0dramedy, \u201cLife & Beth\u201d.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI think everybody has a big secret and that\u2019s mine,\u201d\u00a0she told The Hollywood Reporter<\/a>\u00a0in an interview published Friday.\u00a0\u201cAnd I\u2019m proud that my big secret only hurts me but it\u2019s been what I\u2019ve carried so much shame about for so long.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It all started about 2 years ago, when Schumer decided to wear shorts at the chiropractor and he noticed the scar on her upper thigh, from a very bad surfing accident at 16, which required 41 stitches in 3 layers. The chiropractor attributed her physical pain to her emotional trauma, and Schumer agreed<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u201cThe metaphor that you need to deal with the emotional trauma from the past so you can get out of physical pain was not lost on me,\u201d …After that visit, Schumer realized that \u201cthese things aren\u2019t going to go away if we ignore them\u2014the past is just going to keep hurting you,\u201d she says. \u201cWhen you get to this age, you better evolve if you want to move forward.\u201d
\n‘It Feels Really Freeing.’ Amy Schumer Lets Go of Teenage Trauma in New Hulu Series\u00a0Life & Beth<\/i><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

Schumer has been dealing with her\u00a0trichotillomania since a hard time during her childhood when her dad declared bankruptcy after being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis and her mother left him for the married father of Schumer’s best friend. The hair-pulling became her way of dealing with the stress. She wore a wig to school to cover up a growing bald spot.<\/p>\n

This part about her has been weighing her down, until now, after deciding to let go of the shame and just share:<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s been the thing that I\u2019ve been most ashamed of,\u201d she says. \u201cIt feels really freeing to finally let go of some of that.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

She has learned to deal with the condition:<\/p>\n

\u201cit\u2019s not that I used to have this problem and now I don\u2019t. It\u2019s still something that I struggle with.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And her 3 year old son touching his head reminds her of it too, because of the genetic components of it:<\/p>\n

\u201cEvery time he touches his head I\u2019m having a heart attack,\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Schumer has found that creating art out of her own troubles has been healing<\/p>\n

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\u201cWhen you deal with chronic, often invisible pain, it\u2019s such an isolating sort of private journey,\u201d she said. \u201cYou really have to advocate for yourself \u2014 and that\u2019s what I\u2019m doing here.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

She does check with her family and friends when including stories related to them on the show \u201cLife & Beth\u201d though:<\/p>\n

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\u201cI\u2019m really happy to talk about anything that is about me personally,\u201d she said. \u201cBut any parts of the show that are based on anyone, I did run by them.\u201d<\/p>\n

You can watch Schumer this Sunday on the Oscars, with co-hosts Regina Hall and Wanda Sykes – the first 3-female co-hosts for the show!<\/p>\n

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