Who is Chelsea Handler?
Chelsea was born in Livingston, New Jersey, the youngest of six children of Rita (née Stoecker), a homemaker, and Seymour Handler, a used car dealer Her American father is Jewish; her German-born mother, who came to the United States in 1958, was a Mormon Handler was raised in Reform Judaism and had a Bat Mitzvah ceremony. She has said that while growing up she felt like an outsider, recalling, "We lived in this nice Jewish neighborhood...Everyone had Mercedes and Jaguars, and I was going to school in a Pinto.
In a June 2011 episode of her show, she and author James Van Praagh discussed the death of her brother, Chet, when she was 9 years old. Handler had an abortion at age 16, which she discussed during an interview in 2011.] At age 19, she moved from New Jersey to Los Angeles, California, to pursue an acting career, and two years later, became a stand-up comic after telling her story about a DUI to a class of other offenders, who found it funny.
She is always creating controversies this it is different kind. Chelsea Handler had herself a very busy Thursday night. The comedian took to Instagram to post a photo of herself topless while riding a horse, juxtaposing this racy image with a similar photo made famous by Russian President Vladimir Putin. "Anything a man can do, a woman has the right to do better. #kremlin," Handler captioned the picture.
But Instagram quickly removed the image, citing its policy on nudity, which only incensed the lewd talk show host. "If a man posts a photo of his nipples, it's ok, but not a woman? Are we in 1825?" Handler wrote in another Instagram message. Handler then re-published the nude photo on Twitter and wrote along with it: "Taking this down is sexist. I have every right to show I have a better body than Putin."
The comedian, of course, is no stranger to getting naked on social media. In August, she stripped down on Instagram to mock the Kardashians. She's also taken naked showers on her E! talk show with Sandra Bullock and with Conan O'Brien, among others.Late last night, meanwhile, she added the racy picture to Instagram a second time, daring the website to violate her First Amendment rights. "If instagram takes this down again, you're saying Vladimir Putin Has more 1st amendment rights than me. Talk to your bosses,” she wrote. So Instagram went ahead and yanked down the photo a second time... then reinstated it... and then deleted it a third time, all within an hour. Handler will debut a new talk show on Netflix in October 2016, but it's never too early to start making some headlines for it, right?
