Amy Schumer has revealed she suffers from a hair-pulling disorder.
She has trichotillomania, the scientific name for compulsive hair pulling, and the actress said she'd been too ashamed to speak about it until now, despite having it since a child.
The Trainwreck star, 40, opened up about how she fears the condition may be passed down to her two-year-old son.
She told The Hollywood Reporter : "I'm proud that my big secret only hurts me but it's been what I've carried so much shame about for so long."
Amy said her condition was so bad when she was younger that she needed a wig to cover up her bald spots, and that everyone at her school knew she was wearing one because it didn't fit her properly.
There is a genetic component to trichotillomania, with Amy saying she feels like she's having a heart attack every time son Gene - who she shares with husband Chris Fischer - touches his hair.
She's confronting her issue with her condition in her new scripted Hulu show Life & Beth, which is partly based on her real life.
Amy is hoping that tackling it it a storyline will help alleviate shame for herself and other sufferers who may feel the same way.
Amy also recently opened up about how good she felt after getting liposuction, something she never thought she'd do.
She said she didn't want to hide the fact she'd had surgery as she chatted openly about it on Chelsea Handler's Dear Chelsea podcast.
She said: "I got liposuction. I never thought that I was going to do anything like that. Like when I would hear liposuction I was just like, that's so crazy to me, and I would say that I'm not ever going to do anything."
She said her mind had been changed after turning 40 and having a C-section.
Amy also had to have surgery to remove her uterus and appendix after her son's birth to cure the pain she was feeling from endometriosis.
She added: "I healed well, and I was like, can I get lipo? And I got lipo and I'm feeling really good.
"I just wanted to say that, because if anybody sees me in pictures or anything and they're like, she looks thinner, and whatever: it's because I had a surgery.
"It's too hard, and I just want to be real about it."
