Sometimes I read something that just hits me wrong. Maybe I am grumpy from a fitful night’s sleep but this Amy Schumer interview really bugged me. Amy, who was in Europe on her world comedy tour and documenting her bout with food poisoning, appeared on Jonathon Ross’ show to promote both the tour and her book last Saturday. During her interview, Amy was trying to discuss hardship, I guess? Except that she did so in the most unrelatable way imaginable. First she discussed body policing in Hollywood – by admitting she succumbed to it and then she spoke about financial difficulties – by describing how losing her privileged upbringing affected her birthday parties.

In an upcoming episode of the U.K.’s “Jonathan Ross Show,” which airs Saturday on ITV, [Amy Schumer] opens up about being told to lose weight for her movie, “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,” the 35-year-old said. “I didn’t know that, so I lost some weight to do that, but never again.”

The admission is a little surprising coming from Schumer, who famously accepted Glamour magazine’s Trailblazer of the Year award in 2015, telling the crowd, ““I’m, like, 160 pounds right now, and I can catch a dick whenever I want, and that’s the truth.” However, the fact that she had to lose weight is unfortunately just par for the course in Hollywood and not at all shocking.

During her appearance, Schumer also talked about another painful order ― learning that her family’s finances were wiped out when she was just a kid. The comedian said it wasn’t until her 12th birthday that she realized her family had “fallen on hard times.”

“I could tell most clearly by the quality of my birthday parties because one year we had, in New York, a farm party and there were farm animals. For a New York kid, you’ve got to be rolling in dough and we’re riding ponies, the works,” Schumer joked. “And then the next year my birthday party, after we went bankrupt, [was themed around Lionel Richie’s ‘Dancing on the Ceiling’].”

She added, “My parents just put a light fixture on the floor and my dad put a video camera upside down and we just danced around pretending like we were dancing on the ceiling. Bring your own pizza. It was really dark, my uncle was the clown.”

[From Huffington Post]

I tracked down a clip of her segment so I could see if I over-reacted to these quotes. Although they aren’t as bad when you hear her say them, I feel like she misses the mark about losing weight for Trainwreck. Amy has a history of promoting body positivity when it suits her needs and then slamming anyone who implies she is anything less than the Hollywood ideal. Even in her Ross interview, she ends up sounding like she gave into her own vanity rather than making any kind of statement. Like when she says, “never again,” we really don’t know why – because she hated dieting or because a woman should not be forced to conform to body ideals when she is trying to appeal to the everywoman? And later she sarcastically points out how intimidated she felt about being photographed next to Kate Hudson in a bathing suit. Amy needs to pick a side on body image and stick with it; her flip-flopping is giving me whiplash.

As for the birthday party story, again, it softens the impact to watch it in the clip. Amy admitted to being a rich kid and that it sucked – from a kid’s perspective – to go broke, which I am sure it did. I am, however, totally stealing that Dancing on the Ceiling idea for a party.

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