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Badass Mom-to-Be! Amy Schumer Went Body Surfing and Marched in Washington While Secretly Pregnant Before Amy Schumer revealed she was pregnant, the mom-to-be was busy living her best life

ByAlexia FernándezPublished on October 22, 2018 07:32PM EDTComments Pregnancy certainly can’t slow down Amy Schumer.

Before the actress and comedian, 37, revealed she was pregnant with her and husband Chris Fischer’s first child on Instagram on Monday (in a post shared by friend Jessica Yelling of News Not

Noise), she’d happily been posting about plenty of recent activities and adventures, from body surfing to taking boxing lessons.

She even got detained while protesting Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation in Washington, D.C. earlier this month. Schumer, who seemingly prefers to stay active like fellow mom-to-be Meghan

Markle (who is on a current tour of Australia with Prince Harry), even joked about the comparison in a statement to the L.A. Times.

“I look forward to competing with Markle every step of the way,” Schumer said.

Below, a look at everything the I Feel Pretty star has done while keeping her pregnancy news out of the spotlight.

Getting Detained While Protesting

Earlier this month, Schumer was detained while protesting Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation in Washington, D.C.

In a video shared on Twitter, the actress could be heard telling a police officer she wanted to be arrested.

“You want to be arrested?” A police officer asked her and another female, as he pointed toward a larger group that was chanting with police officers surrounding them.

“Yes,” she said while wearing a green button-down shirt that read on the back, “This Today then #ERA.”

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ERIK S LESSER/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock Gaining Strength Through Boxing

Schumer has also been building her strength with intense boxing exercises after dealing with a herniated disk and other back and hip problems.

The I Feel Pretty actress shared an Instagram post in which she touched on her training.

“About 7 months ago I was in excruciating back and hip pain,” she wrote on Instagram. “From old volleyball and surfing injuries I have a herniated disc, a bulging disc and a labral tear in

my hip.”

Amy Schumer Is Pregnant with Her First Child Amy Schumer/Instagram “These great people nursed me back to health and made me stronger than ever,” she wrote. “I want to thank [trainer Tim

DiFrancesco] @tdathletesedge for pushing me to recovery beyond what I thought possible… [Steven Frank] @stevenfrankboxing had been my boxing trainer for 7 years.”

“Tim, Steve and I have laughed and cried together (Ok Steve didn’t cry) when I had major breakthroughs doing things I thought I would never be able to do again,” she said.

Body Surfing at the Beach