Amy Schumer loves being a mom, but having a second child may not be in the cards for her.
The cabaret artist, 39, opened for Willie Geist for Today‘s ‘Sunday Sitdown’ about parenting her 15-month-old son, Gene, amid a pandemic.
“Dad. I mean, come on, he’s just – life is just so much nicer,” she told Geist of her little one. “He’s the most beautiful thing in my life.”
But Schumer, who is married to chef Chris Fischer, has a realistic view of her future, and says expanding her family is likely on hold. While she originally wanted to give Gene a sister, her experience undergoing IVF to achieve a second pregnancy was extremely difficult.
“We did IVF, and IVF is really difficult for me. I do not think I could ever do IVF again, so I decided I could never get pregnant again, ”said Schumer, who chronicles her journey to motherhood in the documentary series HBO Max Amy expecting.
This past winter, Schumer shared some of her experience during IVF on her Instagram page. She took a photo of her bruised abdomen to seek advice from others who had gone through it, saying the process “made her feel real and emotional.”
The procedure resulted in the collection of 35 eggs, 26 of which were fertilized. Of these, they received one viable embryo.
In addition to excluding further IVF, Schumer and Fischer have chosen to carry a pregnancy surrogate on their children.
“We thought of a surrogate, but I think we’re stopping at this point,” Schumer told Geist.
The struggle to conceive a second time came after Schumer’s extremely difficult pregnancy with Gene, in which she suffered from hyperemesis gravidarum, as an extreme morning sickness. She was on the road performing during the difficult pregnancy.
‘It was really, really hard, but I think any woman can relate strangely enough. Because I go to the stage and do a show like that, even though it’s physical and everyone looks at you, it’s still my job. And so if you’re a teacher like a nurse or something, if you’re really sick, and you’m pregnant, and you still have to work, no one gives you any space, ‘she explained. “They really do not.”
Schumer says she can’t quite imagine her forearm going back on the road. She enjoys staying too much at home with her family, and the experience would be horrible.
“No, not for a while,” she told Geist. ‘It’s not good for you physically or mentally. I feel really good about roots going under. ”
She and Fischer have even turned their time at home into a new production. Amy Schumer Learn to cook is the couple’s new Food Network show in which Fischer Schumer learns how to make quarantined food. It is a labor of love made in the couple’s house, and is shot on camera by their beloved uncle. It’s a much quieter way of life for Schumer than it was just a few years ago, when she jumped back to success thanks to her Comedy Central series Inside Amy Schumer, one has hit movies Train wreck.
‘It feels like a long time ago. There is no book to read. Like here is what you need to do when you become famous very quickly. You kind of lose your identity there until you go, in fact I’m a person and I’m not all these other things where you’re made that you feel you have to fit in, ‘she said. “It’s really satisfying to get that understanding.”
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