Amy Schumer was forced to change her son's name after realizing it sounded like ‘genital'
Topics: Parenting, Celebrity, Amy Schumer
Niamh Shackleton
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Topics: Parenting, Celebrity, Amy Schumer
Choosing what to name your child is not an easy task - something Amy Schumer learned the hard way.
The comedian and actor is mom to five-year-old son Gene, whom she shares with her husband Chris Fischer.
The Life & Beth star has been very candid about motherhood over the years, including how she found pregnancy difficult.
Schumer, 43, also described her C-section as 'terrifying'.
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"I was throwing up through the first hour of my C-section," she previously shared on the Informed Pregnancy and Parenting Podcast.
"It's supposed to take about an hour and a half - mine took over three hours because of my endometriosis, and that was really scary."
Elsewhere, Schumer has discussed her son's chosen name.
Gene was born with a different middle name to what he has now, with the I Feel Pretty actress opting to change it when the youngster was 11 months old.
The reason she changed it was because Gene's first and second names put together sounded rather unfortunate...
The five-year-old was first called Gene Attell Fischer, but Schumer realised what it sounded like 'genital'.
Speaking on the Amy Schumer Presents: 3 Girls, 1 Keith podcast at the time of their decision to change Gene's name, the 43-year-old mom explained: "So do you guys know that Gene, our baby's name is officially changed? It's now Gene David Fischer.
"It was Gene Attell Fischer, but we realized that we by accident named our son 'genital'."
Schumer chose the name Attell after her close pal Dave Attell, but swapped Gene's middle name to David instead so that it was still paying homage to her friend without the rude connotations.
The comic added that the new moniker hit 'two stones' as her father's middle name is also David.
Another aspect of motherhood that Schumer has been candid about is how using Ozempic stopped her from being able to play with her son.
Speaking on Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen last year, the comic said of her experience with Ozempic: "I was one of the people that felt like so sick and like couldn't like play with my son. I was so skinny."
Schumer said that her son Gene would be 'throwing a ball' at her and she couldn't even engage.
The mom-of-one went on to say that the side effects she had while using Ozempic weren't 'liveable' for her, so she stopped.