…for including her in a list of “Women Who Inspire Us” in a special edition called “Chic at Any Size” aimed at “plus-size” women. They did not explicitly identify her as plus-size. Methinks the lady doth protest too much.
Schumer claims to be in the range of size 6 to 8. Last year she said she was 160 pounds. Sorry, that can’t be a size 8.
I don’t know what she’s all upset about. Getting your name on the cover of Glamour as inspiring? If I were female I’d be OK with that.
She is in strange territory. ‘It’s completely cool to be any size, but I’m upset this magazine claims I am a size I am not.’ Ugh?
This was being discussed on my local talk radio and my first thought, and what I was sure would be commented on is that Amy Schumer is no size 6. Just to be clear,I admire and really like her, think she’s lovely and covet her great rack, but size 6 she ain’t. Not that it matters, and not that it’s anybody’s business, but it seem hypocritical to say the least that she would take a stand about setting inappropriate standards for young women and then claiming to be (I’d guess) four sizes smaller than she actually is.
She doesn’t self-identify as poundage-enhanced. 
(Her claim is that) she’s upset about Glamour setting unrealistic standards for other people who look like her. Not that she was personally offended.
She needs to invest in a mirror.
Plus size covers a wide range from slightly overweight to very obese. Amy is in the low end in the plus size range. So are many, many other American women. Our society in general eats too much. I certainly do on some occasions.
Unrealistic… sure.
Aren’t her 15 minutes almost up? I hope so…
Then she probably should have mentioned that before the photo shoot. Has she never read a woman’s magazine?
Amy Schumer: Strange Territory. Next month and Only on HBO… 
I don’t know whether she is plus sized or not, i think that she has a face that belongs on a girl much fatter than she actually is. I do have a problem with her tweeting this ridiculously badly photoshopped picture as “proof” that she is not plus sized. THAT is what gives girls bad body image, comparing themselves to bodies that do not exist in real life.
I am not at all a Schumer fan, but she is in the right here.
She has frequently complained how often she is slammed for being fat, etc. Esp., by producers, casting directors, etc. They want all actresses and models to be size 0 or less. This is something she is well known for.
The cover has the following names: Melissa McCarthy, Adele, Amy Schumer & Ashley Graham in one continuous block.
Yet the magazine claims they weren’t labeling her “plus size” like the others. Then why is her name 3rd in a list of 4?
This is flat out spin doctoring from Glamour. They made a mistake and aren’t owning it.
She isn’t a stick figure, but she sure isn’t fat either. Glamour’s whole article is an example of how messed up the fashion world is.
I haven’t seen anything suggesting that that pic is photoshopped, other than your post.
Here’s what Schumer actually posted:
Um, you’ve got the height/size thing backwards. For a given weight, the taller you are, the smaller your clothing size tends to be. (That is, more of your weight is going into your tall frame rather than into your girth-expanding fat.)
Amy Schumer is 5’7". According to these height/weight/size charts, an average weight for a 5’7" size 8 woman is 150 pounds, while for a 5’7" size 6 woman it’s 134 pounds. If Schumer weighs 160 pounds, that’s not that far off a size 8, and certainly doesn’t require “extreme” vanity sizing.
“Plus size”, as Schumer notes, is usually considered to be somewhere around size 16 on up. Amy Schumer is certainly nowhere near “plus size” as most people would interpret that term.
And yeah, I don’t know of any evidence that any of her publicity photos are photoshopped.
I have no idea if that photo is heavily photoshopped or not – there’s nothing I immediately see that jumps out at me, I just assume it’s an older photo – but, regardless, here’s a press photo of her at the Comedy Central Roast of Rosanne in 2012, so definitely not a photoshop. She looks pretty darn slim in that photo. I’m guessing she just bounces around a lot in weight.
I don’t understand why anyone would call themselves a size anything, since those numbers are completely arbitrary as far as I can tell. Size 6 means nothing to me.
To be fair, they didn’t label any of them as plus sized. The mention was on a list of “women who inspire [them]”. The magazine itself was marketed towards plus-sized women, not everyone in the magazine is plus-sized.
Second, Amy Schumer gets less credit because she seems to be lying/mistaken about her dress size, and won’t come out and say that she is annoyed a magazine implied she was overweight/fat.
Pretty sure I don’t have it backwards. A size 6 or 8 is not a large size for someone who is average height or tall. A size 6 or 8 is large for someone who is short, which is why I say the only way in hell I’m willing to believe Amy Schumer fits into a size 6 is if she is *very *short.
So since she is not super short, if she actually wears a 6, which I am super skeptical of, it’s because there’s some A+ vanity sizing going on where she shops. Hell, I personally own shirts ranging from size M to XL, with a handful of S thrown in. As has been stated in this thread and everywhere else in the universe, women’s sizes are based on some loose combo of standard conventions, wishful thinking, magic, and hatred of consistency.
Though I will say sizes don’t tend to vary too crazily. I can’t imagine there’s anyplace where I’d wear a size 2 or a 22. I could imagine a 6 or a 12 though. I could also imagine Amy Schumer in a 6 if we’re using the most creative sizing chart I’ve ever seen.
I really do think she could be a size 6 in that photo from 2012 I posted, don’t you think? 8 at the most. Well, now that I look at it again, maybe 8 rather than 6.
