Amy Schumer’s Barbie Role Is Already Controversial

Recently, Deadline announced that Amy Schumer is in negotiations to play the title character in the upcoming Sony Pictures film, Barbie. Because no good media announcement goes unpunished, trolls have already — you guessed it — body-shamed her.

“Amy Schumer being cast as Barbie is a self deprecating joke of hers right? It’s her making fun of herself? Wait. It’s not a joke? Wow,” a YouTuber wrote on Twitter.

Other Internet users have added their unsolicited opinions too:

And, because the cycle of trolls always ends in trolls defending their trolliness, we’ve come full circle to the conversation about why they have the right to fat shame:

But in the end, the whole conversation proves that the role of body-image in the media is what really needs a makeover:

[h/t Marie Claire]