Amy Schumer shares this honest parenting advice to all her friends, including Jennifer Lawrence
“It’s just about failing”
Amy Schumer has shared the one piece of parenting advice she passes along to all of her friends, including new mum Jennifer Lawrence who welcomed her first child earlier this year and Juno actor Michael Cera who has a six-month-old.
“It’s just about failing,” says the 40-year-old I Feel Pretty star.
“It’s like stand up. You mess up so bad.”
Amy Schumer with her two-year-old son, Gene.
The comedian says her first major parenting fail came in 2020 just after she named her newborn son Gene Attell and she and her husband Chris Fischer realised it sounded like genital.
The little one’s name was quickly changed to Gene David.
“It couldn’t go much worse than [that],” she says.
“But they’re doing great. They really are both just such clear, natural parents.”
Always one to be refreshingly honest when it comes to motherhood, Amy appeared on Late Night with Seth Meyers last year with a story about her lack of parenting instincts.
“I got some nice advice from Natalie Portman,” she said.
“She was like, ‘You have more instincts than you know you have’. And what I’m finding is that Natalie Portman is a huge liar. Because, so far, my instincts are all dead wrong.”
Jennifer Lawrence welcomed her first child earlier this year.
Earlier this year reps for Jennifer Lawrence, 31 confirmed that she and her husband Cooke Maroney had welcomed their first child together.
In 2019, the Don’t Look Up star told media that it was pretty much love at first sight between her and Cooke Maroney.
“I just met Cooke, and I wanted to marry him. We wanted to marry each other. We wanted to commit fully. He’s my best friend, so I want to legally bind him to me forever,” she said at the time.
“Fortunately, the paperwork exists for such a thing. It’s the greatest. You find your favourite person on the planet, you’re like: You can’t leave.”
