Amy Schumer always seems to have a lot on her plate, especially now that she’s making legit plates for her cooking show
Amy Schumer Learns To Cook. Let’s not forget that she also had a baby in the last year and was still somehow doing her comedy tour while pregnant, which is at the core of her new docuseries,
Expecting Amy, which premiered this week on Crave. The three-part series details just how difficult her pregnancy was—something
Billy on the Street’s Billy Eichner (along with everyone else) couldn’t get over.“When you are on camera, you somehow manage to be funny even while you're throwing up!” Billy said to Amy via video-chat as he filled in as guest host on
Jimmy Kimmel Live! “And you do throw up a lot. I mean, ‘Funny while throwing up,’ that's not something even Betty White could do.”
“You would never say that to her face!” Amy laughed. Fair point, no one should get on Betty White’s bad side. But that kind of bravery—showing her experience with the often-debilitating pregnancy complication
hyperemesis gravidarum and all the accompanying bodily-fluids—is something the
I Feel Pretty actress is now running with in a new partnership that aims to destigmatize menstruation.“Well speaking of blood,” she quipped, “I partnered up with Tampax and the reason we did it, we both are really interested in taking the shame out of women and their bodies, and you know because ultimately we get our periods so that we can then hopefully have children and keep the population going. So it felt like a very natural progression for us.”Amy hopes the partnership will educate as well as empower, as she told
People magazine, “Only 24 states have any sort of required sex education and only 13 of those states require any sort of upkeep of actual medical studies. So if you don't have an older sister, or if your mom isn't super up to date, you really have no one to rely on. So I'm hopefully gonna be people's older sister, explaining the things that I've learned to them.”[video_embed id='1873546']RELATED: New documentary explores period stigma around the world [/video_embed]Her first act as your big sister is two videos posted on Tampax's YouTube channel
debunking common tampon and period myths and demystifying
the concept of different tampon sizes. If you're a
person who gets periods, they're definitely worth a look.Despite being so open about her pregnancy and her period, it turns out that the woman who loves to shock on stage is actually quite introverted in her
personal life.“I don't know why I've just always felt so unapologetic about that stuff,” she explains about her no-holds-barred comedy style, “but I'm also in my real life, like I'm pretty quiet myself you know. And my favourite people are actually introverts. One of my best friends
Bridget Everett is like that. We're like so outspoken and whenever we perform, but then like on our own time, we can be pretty chill.”Speaking of chill, you can chill out and stream all three parts of
Expecting Amy on Crave right now.[video_embed id='1991285']BEFORE YOU GO: Tom Hanks has a blunt message for people who don't wear a mask [/video_embed]
