Amy Schumer Poses : The Radical Power of Her ‘Beautiful, Gross’ Photo

The Trainwreck star posed for an unretouched topless photo for Annie Leibovitz, revealing fat rolls, curves, and a stunning s3xual confidence. It’s a gorgeous, powerful photo.

“Beautiful, gross, strong, thin, fat, pretty, ugly, s3xy, disgusting, flawless, woman.”

That’s how Amy Schumer described her photo by Annie Leibovitz for the new Pirelli Calendar, seizing the words from the tweets and thinkpieces by her critics and cheerleaders, all of whom will reliably bicker over the headline-making photo shoot from the star, who has turned the unapologetic, self-deprecating embracing of her body image into a zeitgeist-seizing art form