In this millennium, the media has done an awfully good job at making young girls who are over a size 2 feel like they're taking up way to much space on this earth. It's always stood true that people aspire to look like celebrities, well because they're famous and all. So, as the celebrities get thinner, so does the confidence of every girl across the globe.
I am fully guilty of this, in high school when I started to fill out, I really started to doubt my appearance. I was a three season athlete with a rigorus practice schedule and felt like even that wasn't doing enough to loose weight and now there's the added pressure of the dreaded Freshman 15. The idea that you have to be thin to be successful was tattooed on my brain.
Amy Schumer was someone who was never on my radar until I saw her movie "Trainwreck", which she both wrote and starred in. To this day I still think that it is without a doubt the funniest chick flick I have ever seen. Fast forward a few weeks, and Amy Schumer is on the Ellen Show, which back in high school I was a dedicated viewer of. Just this one interview and I was hooked. Never in my life had I seen a woman of her standing keep it so real. Like she's literally so cool that she even has her own TV show "Inside Amy Schumer" on Comedy Central.
In the media, we see all of these female elitests walking around so flawlessly and they're perceived by the public to never make a single wrong move. By no means am I saying I don't idolize Selena Gomez more than the next person, like I'm obviously happy that she's happy now that her and Justin are "officially" but like unofficially broken up, but she probably shouldn't be your role model.
Amy Schumer is basically your best friend, the one who you make stupid mistake after stupid mistake with a may never learn your lesson but, is always there for you no matter what. "The girls I grew up with they're living normal, adult lives. So they call me now and they're like, 'Amy, I'm pregnant.' And I still react like, 'What are you going to do? I'll drive you, I guess.'"
She's a hopeless fan-girl just like the rest of us. On "The Tonight Show With Jimmy Fallon" she tells us the story of the time when she was at the Time's 100 Most Influential People Awards along with all of the people who fought Ebola but, she was dying to see her crush Bradley Cooper. Like any little girl who has a crush, she harasses him every time she seems him but, doesn't really talk to him. So she was took this opportunity at the show to quickly apologize and duck away because she was so intimidated by how handsome he was. Long story short, they talked about their personal lives and he asked about her sister and after she had that moment that we all have..."Am I dating Bradley Cooper?"
One thing that most celebrities falsely preach is loving your body for what it is but, Amy Schumer has a different approach. She makes you believe that whether your 4'10 or 5'9, a size 0 or a size 16, there is nothing better than the ability to make people laugh.
On Comedy Central she tells, "In New York I'm, like, a six -- seven with all the padding. But in Miami, I was like a negative three. People were like, 'What is that?' Throwing up on their motorized wheelchairs. Children were crying. I was like, 'Beyonce calls it jelly.' They were like, 'That's cottage cheese. Do some lunges.'"
Amy Schumer is breaking the mold and making moves towards the idea that being funny, having confidence, knowing who you are and what you want, are what make you flawless and sexy. Not D-cups, a big butt, having thighs that don't touch and eating popcorn one piece at a time.
