--- title: Amy Schumer Was Asked to Lose Weight For 'Trainwreck' description: The actress and comedian says that she was pressured into losing weight for her first film. canonical: https://time.com/4496899/amy-schumer-trainwreck-weight-loss/ author: TIME article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-09-16T14:58:48.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T09:03:23.965Z og:title: Amy Schumer Says She Was Asked to Lose Weight for 'Trainwreck' og:description: 'I lost some weight to do that but never again' og:url: https://time.com/4496899/amy-schumer-trainwreck-weight-loss/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt764efbf0274e80d4/6988a670ab6d77052c6ab43e/amy-schumer-trainwreck-weight-loss.jpg?branch=production&width=682&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 682 og:image:height: 384 og:image:alt: GQ Men Of The Year Awards 2016 - Red Carpet Arrivals og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Amy Schumer Says She Was Asked to Lose Weight for 'Trainwreck' twitter:description: 'I lost some weight to do that but never again' twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt764efbf0274e80d4/6988a670ab6d77052c6ab43e/amy-schumer-trainwreck-weight-loss.jpg?branch=production&width=682&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Amy Schumer Says She Was Asked to Lose Weight for _Trainwreck_ > Sponsored content. 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LONDON, ENGLAND - SEPTEMBER 06: Amy Schumer arrives for GQ Men Of The Year Awards 2016 at Tate Modern on September 6, 2016 in London, England. Jeff Spicer/Getty Images by [Jodi Gugleilmi/People](https://time.com/author/people/) ## Jodi Gugleilmi/People Contributor Sep 16, 2016 2:58 PM UTC Never again will [Amy Schumer](http://www.people.com/people/news/category/0,,personsTax:AmySchumer,00.html) lose weight just for a movie. The comedian stopped by U.K.’s_The Jonathan Ross Show_ this week, where she talked about the unfair treatment of women in Hollywood. Schumer admitted that she was told to lose weight for her role in _Trainwreck_. “The only change was that it was explained to me before I did that movie _\[Trainwreck\]_ that if you weigh over 140 pounds as a woman in Hollywood, if you’re on the screen it will hurt people’s eyes.” Schumer, 35, said she succumbed to the Hollywood pressure to be thin and dropped a few pounds before filming. “I didn’t know that so I lost some weight to do that but never again,” she said. And while Schumer is known for her [ruthless comedy](http://www.people.com/article/amy-schumer-guardian-article-twitter-response) routines in which she often pokes fun at her own [body image](http://www.people.com/article/amy-schumer-glamour-august-cover-story) and sexual exploits, even the comedian knows there’s such a thing as going too far. “I think the most painful awful things wind up being funny but I’ve also learnt the hard way that that’s not always true. I don’t shy away from anything just because it’s uncomfortable, I like being uncomfortable,” she said. Schumer said she turns to her sister Kim Caramele to test out her new jokes. “I’ll ask my sister and she’ll say ‘No that’s not funny’ and then I say, ‘I think you’re wrong’ and then I’ll go out and try and she was right.” _This_ [_article_](http://www.people.com/article/amy-schumer-on-body-image-in-hollywood) _originally appeared on_ [_People_](http://www.people.com/people/)_._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4496899/amy-schumer-trainwreck-weight-loss/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4496899/amy-schumer-trainwreck-weight-loss/"},"headline":"Amy Schumer Says She Was Asked to Lose Weight for Trainwreck","datePublished":"2016-09-16T14:58:48.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T09:03:23.965Z","description":"'I lost some weight to do that but never again'","url":"https://time.com/4496899/amy-schumer-trainwreck-weight-loss/","keywords":["motto"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt764efbf0274e80d4/6988a670ab6d77052c6ab43e/amy-schumer-trainwreck-weight-loss.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Jodi Gugleilmi/People"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt764efbf0274e80d4/6988a670ab6d77052c6ab43e/amy-schumer-trainwreck-weight-loss.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"GQ Men Of The Year Awards 2016 - Red Carpet Arrivals","caption":"GQ Men Of The Year Awards 2016 - Red Carpet Arrivals","creditText":"Jeff Spicer/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/4496899/amy-schumer-trainwreck-weight-loss/","name":"Amy Schumer Says She Was Asked to Lose Weight for Trainwreck"}}]}] ```