Meet Amy Schumer's Sister! All About Producer Kim Caramele (& How One of Their Real Fights Inspired a Pivotal “Trainwreck” Scene)

Amy Schumer comes from a talented family — her sister, Kim Caramele, is an Emmy award-winning producer and writer.

The duo hails from New York, where they were raised by their parents, Gordon Schumer and Sandra Schumer. The Trainwreck actress was born on June 1, 1981, followed by Kim. The pair also have an older half-brother, Jason, who Sandra welcomed in a previous marriage.

Amy's career has been a family affair from the start. While performing the Trainwreck Comedy Tour in 2015, the comedian tapped Jason as her opening act. Kim was also on the road with her siblings, as Amy's writing partner for both stand-up and TV.

Amy and Kim are still very close after working on numerous projects together. The comedian once referred to her sister as “the blood in my veins.”

“She literally keeps me having fun and laughing and feeling grounded. If we didn’t have each other to turn to and say, ‘What are we doing?’ ... She makes life feel real. I just love her,” Amy told PEOPLE in 2016.

Here’s everything to know about Amy Schumer’s siblings: brother Jason Stein and sister Kim Caramele.

They grew up in New York

Amy spent the first years of her life living in Manhattan’s Upper East Side neighborhood before she and her siblings moved to Long Island when their parents, Sandra and Gordon, divorced. Amy and Jason immediately took to sports — volleyball for her and basketball for him — while also bonding over their shared sense of humor.

“Jason is very funny and dry and sarcastic,” Amy told The New York Times, adding that she wasn’t as musically inclined as her brother. “I tried, I think, four instruments. I tried! The cello was what I played the longest, and my teacher asked me to stop taking it.”

Amy and Kim were “inseparable” as kids

When they were kids Kim “was such a sweetheart,” but “would drive me crazy,” Amy recalled during an appearance on CBS Sunday Morning in 2015. The Life & Beth star said Kim “would copy everything I did.”

“She was the cutest kid you had ever seen in your entire life. She was so cute — like I was cute, and then she came along, and she was cute,” said Amy. “It was really traumatizing. I was kind of mean to her.”

But one day, Kim sweetly passed a handwritten note to Amy asking if she could help her finish a drawing of a baby animal. “For some reason that hit me,” said Amy. “From that day on we were inseparable, crazy insane close.”

Kim married her college sweetheart

Kim met her future husband as a freshman at Pace University. At age 23, she and Vinny Caramele married in a courthouse, with Amy as their witness.

In a 2016 Daily Beast interview, Kim opened up about “fall[ing] in love pretty young,” admitting that she had “never thought” about marriage prior.

“I got married because I happened to meet my best friend and fall in love pretty young,” she candidly revealed. “But I never thought I was going to get married. Amy and I grew up very similar in that having a husband isn’t anything we ever dreamed of or played at as kids. That just happened to be how it worked out for me.”

In an essay published by Glamour, the producer said she and her husband “don’t follow the typical rules" of marriage, citing they don’t wear wedding rings, used to sleep in separate beds and don’t post about one another on social media.

Kim quit her job as a school psychologist to work alongside Amy as a comedy writer

While Kim was funny (Amy tapped her for stand-up material), writing jokes was never her dream job. But in the early 2010's, the sisters made a pact: If Comedy Central renewed Inside Amy Schumer for a second season, Kim would pack up her bags in Chicago, move to N.Y.C. and help Amy write the script.

Amy successfully got a second season so Kim quit her job as a school psychologist, moved to the city and co-wrote season 2's script. However, the transition wasn’t easy for Kim, who said she suffered from extreme guilt as the younger sibling of the show’s star.

“I just felt like this weak younger sibling being toted around,” she told the Daily Beast. “I felt immediately guilty for even being there. Everybody was nice and welcoming, and I felt deeply like I hadn’t earned it. Because I hadn’t. I was absolutely there because I was Amy’s sister.”

But Kim proved herself, and she was later asked to stay on as a producer. Since then, the sister duo have collaborated on a number of film projects together, including Trainwreck and Snatched, starring Amy and executive produced by Kim.

Amy dedicated her first Emmy win to Kim

In 2015, Amy won an Emmy for best variety sketch series.

During her acceptance speech, Amy dedicated the award to Kim, who was a writer and producer on Inside Amy Schumer and created three seasons with her sister.

“I want to thank my sister Kim, who’s the only reason I’m alive and breathing,” said Amy.

Amy and Kim used their relationship as inspiration for Trainwreck

Trainwreck is full of Schumer family Easter eggs, the comedian and Kim admitted to the Daily Beast in 2016. For starters, they used their real-life names for the roles of sisters Amy (played by herself) and Kim (played by Brie Larson). And while fictional Amy and Kim are dramatized versions of themselves, there are scenes that mirror arguments and challenges Amy and Kim faced off-screen.

The fight between Amy and Kim about the latter's marriage was based on an actual tiff between the sisters. “That is the part of the movie that I’d say is the deepest revelation I had for us,” Amy shared.

She explained, “We grew so close our whole lives. So there is a little bit of a feeling of abandonment when she found someone and was like, ‘I want to share my life with you.’ I was like, ‘I thought we were sharing our lives with each other.’ This is real subconscious s---, you know?”

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