--- title: Amy Schumer Hilariously Reveals The Problem With Shopping description: Amy Schumer knows how to tackle the topic of body image— as evidenced by her brave response to being labeled 'plus-sized'—but the most recent episode of Inside Amy Schumer took the conversation to a whole new level. canonical: https://time.com/4329286/amy-schumer-body-shaming-size-12/ author: Megan Lasher article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-05-13T18:01:11.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T09:02:28.578Z og:title: Amy Schumer Tackles Body-Shaming in the New Episode of Inside Amy Schumer og:description: Lena Dunham makes a cameo og:url: https://time.com/4329286/amy-schumer-body-shaming-size-12/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5958cfee688c5624/69889315cd1bba95b5700aeb/amy-schumer-shopping-size.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2360 og:image:height: 1328 og:image:alt: The 21st Annual Critics' Choice Awards - Show og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Amy Schumer Tackles Body-Shaming in the New Episode of Inside Amy Schumer twitter:description: Lena Dunham makes a cameo twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5958cfee688c5624/69889315cd1bba95b5700aeb/amy-schumer-shopping-size.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Amy Schumer Tackles Body-Shaming in the New Episode of _Inside Amy Schumer_ > Sponsored content. 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Kevin Winter—Getty Images by [Megan Lasher](https://time.com/author/megan-lasher/) ## Megan Lasher May 13, 2016 6:01 PM UTC In April, Amy Schumer [called out _Glamour_ for featuring her in the editors’ “Chic at Any Size” issue.](http://motto.time.com/4282524/amy-schumer-glamour-plus-size/) “Plus-size is considered a size 16 in America,” she wrote on [Twitter](https://twitter.com/amyschumer/status/717372298353836032) and [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/p/BD0sVf9KUCy/?taken-by=amyschumer&hl=en). “I go between a size 6 and an 8…Young girls seeing my body type thinking that is plus-size?” In the most recent episode of _Inside Amy Schumer,_ the comedian [satirizes the idea of size-shaming](http://www.cosmopolitan.com/entertainment/tv/news/a58353/amy-schumers-sizeism-shopping-sketch/). Schumer is shopping for T-shirts when a store employee offers to help, then discourages her from buying clothing: “Can I help you find something else? Like maybe some jewelry?” When Schumer requests the shirt that she’s holding in a size 12, the clerk asks, “12 like a U.K. 12, which is a U.S. 8? Or like a Japanese 12, which is an American toddler 3?” poking fun at the skewed sizes of women’s clothing. Finally, the employee escorts Schumer through a curtain into a farm, saying “we have a whole section for your… situation.” On the farm, Schumer finds Lena Dunham, who says she “asked for a turtleneck and they brought me here, like, three months ago.” They comment that the blanket on the grass had been worn by Mindy Kaling. Schumer ends up buying a blue tarp that’s meant to cover all of her “problem areas” and then receives a mall pretzel in her shopping bag at the register because “we assumed that’s where you’d be going next.” Watch the full sketch below: ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4329286/amy-schumer-body-shaming-size-12/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4329286/amy-schumer-body-shaming-size-12/"},"headline":"Amy Schumer Tackles Body-Shaming in the New Episode of Inside Amy Schumer","datePublished":"2016-05-13T18:01:11.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T09:02:28.578Z","description":"Lena Dunham makes a cameo","url":"https://time.com/4329286/amy-schumer-body-shaming-size-12/","keywords":["motto","News"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5958cfee688c5624/69889315cd1bba95b5700aeb/amy-schumer-shopping-size.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Megan Lasher","jobTitle":"","url":"https://time.com/author/megan-lasher/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5958cfee688c5624/69889315cd1bba95b5700aeb/amy-schumer-shopping-size.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"The 21st Annual Critics' Choice Awards - Show","caption":"Actress-writer Amy Schumer accepts Critics' Choice MVP Award onstage during the 21st Annual Critics' Choice Awards at Barker Hangar in Santa Monica, Calif. on Jan. 17, 2016.","creditText":"Kevin Winter—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/motto/","name":"motto"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4329286/amy-schumer-body-shaming-size-12/","name":"Amy Schumer Tackles Body-Shaming in the New Episode of Inside Amy Schumer"}}]}] ```