Amy Schumer Gets Emotional In Today Show Interview

Like many women, Amy Schumer has struggled her whole life with body image and how to feel confident in her style choices.

While Khloé has since shot back on Twitter defending her “healthy journey” through weight loss, Schumer has since gone on The Today Show to discuss her experience with body image.

“My sister and I, we both have always dressed badly”, she said. The actress shared how hard it can be sometimes to keep her chin held high in a recent interview with Today show correspondent Maria Shriver. “She didn’t have to do this”, Amy continued, “but she just did”, even though really being a stylist is Leesa’s job and, you know, how she gets paid/makes a living, so she kind of did have to. “And seeing my little sister [Kim Caramele] wearing a little blazer and a shirt and looking just like a strong, handsome woman, I realized that holding myself back was also holding her back”. In teaming up with Goodwill of Southern California, the star is hoping to inspire other women through fashion. After going over a few of the most hilariously disturbing moves you’ve never heard of (e.g., the “Dirty Rochester”), she makes a good point: None of them are pleasurable for the woman involved.

“Some nights I didn’t even want to go on stage because I couldn’t find an outfit I felt good in”, she admitted. What she talks about in Live at the Apollo may take the form of self-criticizing and self-awareness, like when she talks about her sex life, her career, or exercising, but the crux of her viewpoint is the battle between the constructs of society and the furious madness of the inner self. “And sometimes, I would just want to throw in the towel and be like, ‘I’m not gonna go do stand-up tonight'”.

Craig Blankenhorn/HBOThis is Amy Schumer’s first comedy special for HBO.”This has been an insane year for me”, says Amy Schumer at the top of her first one-hour HBO special, after walking onstage to Nicki Minaj’s “Beez in the Trap”, carrying a half-drunk white-wine bottle and setting it on a stool in lieu of the usual water. Spoiler alert: Nobody in Hollywood is naturally thin, everyone’s just starving. In these moments, she comes closer to the social critiques of George Carlin or Chris Rock, who directed Live at the Apollo and has been an open fan and supporter of Schumer for a few time now.