Amy Schumer Takes on Breadwinner Role in Marriage with Chef Chris Fischer While Balancing Motherhood to 4-Year-Old Gene

Amy Schumer knows that she can bring home the bacon but never let her husband Chris Fischer or her son Gene, four, forget who’s the mom.

‘And I say that I’m the breadwinner. I’m working,’ she said on the Kelly Corrigan Wonders podcast, co-hosted by Christy Turlington on which they talked about the evolving roles of dads today.

‘You know, he has so many jobs that a mom has, but Mom is still Mom,’ the Trainwreck star, 42, said, referring to her husband.

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‘And I’m sorry, because I really don’t mean for that to be reductive to the many great fathers and especially same-sex couples raising kids,’ Schumer – who pulled a raunchy stunt at the Jimmy Buffett tribute – continued, covering her tracks. 

‘I do think that women are great communicators. And when we look at the condition of the world and whatever, it’s just like we don’t have the dads organize a birthday party,’ she joked. ‘But we’re having them navigate global [issues]…like women are good communicators. Can we get some women in there?’

Amy Schumer knows that she can bring home the bacon as the family breadwinner but never let her husband Chris Fischer or her son Gene, four, forget who’s the mom

‘And I say that I’m the breadwinner. I’m working,’ she said on the Kelly Corrigan Wonders podcast, co-hosted by Christy Turlington on which they talked about the evolving roles of dads today

Schumer’s appearance on the podcast is part of the About Your Mother series, that features guests including: Cindy Crawford, Jennifer Garner and Bono. 

The stars tell stores about their relationships with their moms and the life lessons that were passed on to them.

The series has a goal of raising $100,000 for Every Mother Counts, the charity co-founded by Turlington. 

Schumer also dove into her troubled relationship with her own mother after her pal Jennifer Lawrence praised her for how she deals with haters.

The podcast hosts asked her what three words she would have used to describe her mother when she was a teenager and Amy quickly said ‘loving, narcissistic and inconsistent.’

And today, the Life & Beth star – who stars in the upcoming comedy Kinda Pregnant – said that she probably would use those same three words.

‘I just have major empathy for all of them, and I see all the same things in myself,’ she said. 

‘Just know that the expectations and the pressure we have for our moms, it’s unrealistic, and it’s like a pipe dream. And there’s just no way to get it right,’ Schumer added.

On the podcast, the I Feel Pretty star spoke about journals she had written as a child that she read when she was 30. 

Speaking about her husband Chris Fischer, the Trainwreck actress, 42, said ‘You know, he has so many jobs that a mom has, but Mom is still Mom’

‘And I’m sorry, because I really don’t mean for that to be reductive to the many great fathers and especially same-sex couples raising kids,’ Schumer continued, covering her tracks

‘But we’re having them navigate global [issues]…like women are good communicators. Can we get some women in there?’

‘I was like, “Oh my God. I was totally brainwashed into worshiping [my mom],”‘ she exclaimed.  

‘I was so lucky – I grew up feeling so extremely loved and appreciated and seen – and then when I was 30, I kind of questioned all of that, looking back,’ she said.

‘I don’t hold onto any anger for her,’ the comedian continued. ‘I can still feel hurt by her and she can annoy me, but it’s like, she had a mom, and she had a mom, and it just goes back.’

‘But at the end of the day, ‘she’s always there. She is my person. She’s my biggest fan.’