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Schumer’s Barbie movie, which is currently in search of a female director, is scheduled to hit theatres in 2018, and despite its casting, it will be relatively “family friendly,” reports Deadline. It will follow the Mattel doll after she is cast out of Barbieland for no longer being “perfect enough.” She is then left to find her way in the real world, all while embracing her newly discovered imperfections.

It’s a topical subject for the comedian, who recently experienced similar backlash after posing for a nude portrait taken by Annie Leibovitz just last year for Pirelli’s 2016 calendar.

Despite the negative commentary criticizing her weight, Schumer said, “I felt I looked more beautiful than I’ve ever felt in my life, and I felt like it looked like me.”

The backlash against her body type comes in the same week as Ashley Graham generating waves for being the first plus-size model to make the cover of Vogue — British Vogue, to be exact. But it’s also generated plenty of negative attention, with the magazine having recently confirmed that countless designers “flatly refused” to lend or make clothes for Graham, who is a size 16 and was considered outside the “sample range.” For the record, size 16 is considered the average size of an American woman.