Why Chelsea Handler's Boobs Inspire Me
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Why Chelsea Handler's Boobs Inspire Me

They're the true symbol for female empowerment.

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Why Chelsea Handler's Boobs Inspire Me
Melissa Holt

Yes, they are phenomenal boobs, but they symbolize more than being breasts.

As a 19-year-old college student and female, Chelsea Handler’s boobs are everything I hope to become.

(If you haven’t seen them: a quick google search will change that)

Her breasts, shared through social media through shameless topless pictures, represent the epitome of an influential, powerful, honest, successful and independent woman.

Chelsea Handler is mostly known for her seven-season run with Chelsea Lately, a late night talk show hosted by E! network. Through over a thousand episodes, the world got to experience the great bluntness, humor and cleverness that Handler exhumes.

If you know nothing about Handler besides her time hosting on E!, some of the most notable accomplishments include writing and published five books. Four of those five have been on the New York Times Best Seller List. She’s an actress, producer, writer and comedian. She’s an awarded activist for the LGBTQIA+ community, hosted four of her own television shows and more.

Handler’s latest projects include working with Netflix. She aired, Chelsea Does, a four-part documentary series delving into the topics of drugs, marriage, Silicon Valley and racism. This is where my appreciation for Handler began.

In this documentary series, Handler talks to all sorts of professionals, friends, family and average citizens to wrap her mind around each topic. She does it in a way that is so Chelsea.

When interviewing, she lets her bias show. She makes comments on everything and asks all the questions that nobody else will. The series is filled with silences of Handler laughing and the interviewee sitting there like, “really?” It’s incredible. She doesn’t have any fear in her field. She’s trying to educate herself and the world in a way that’s enjoyable to watch.

Throughout the series, you learn about Handler personally as well. She jokes about her time dating Ice Cube, growing up with five siblings, her mother passing away, multiple marriage engagements and doesn’t sugarcoat her alcohol or drug use.

She isn’t the typical woman we see in media. Sure she’s a white, blonde, fit woman but her focuses aren’t on being a sexy, delicate, stupid, fashionable piece of eye-candy that is too celebrated in media.

Also: she's the one of the funniest people on TV right now.

She’s blunt, she’s single, she sometimes posts topless photos, she drinks and she mixes it with Adderall sometimes. This isn’t just who Handler is, but it’s nothing she hides. She isn’t ashamed or apologetic for anything.

Handler stated that she was tired of how her E! talk show, Chelsea Lately, had to be structured. She was a woman forced to talk about gossip, pop culture and nothing she cared about. Her career was focused on jokes about the Kardashians and superficial celebrities. Handler called her time on E! as, “Seven years of ridiculous stupidity.”

She's not trying to be nice and sugarcoat it, she saw something she didn't like and said what she thought.

So what did she do to combat the stupidity?

She created her own new type of talk show: doing everything and anything she wants. Sure, celebrities will still be topics, pop culture will be relevant but it’s done her way. Handler left security and unhappiness to venture off into an unknown and fight against the stupidity.

I see Chelsea Handler as being the most real woman in media today. For how she goes about doing things in her career and the truth in everything she does.

Her success in television and comedy isn’t where I feel most inspired. It’s where she as a person exemplifies what every woman should know.

Handler is single and she’s not ready to mingle. She’s a woman who doesn’t want to be a mother or wife. She goes against everything our societal norms are for a woman her age. Recently, she wrote a column for TIME magazine expressing how people need to begin congratulating women on being single:

“Next time you see a single woman, instead of asking her where her boyfriend, husband or eunuch is, congratulate her on her accomplished sense of self and for reaching the solitary mountaintop by herself without a ring on her finger weighing her down like a male paperweight.”

Handler doesn’t need more than her dogs. She doesn’t need more than herself. She’s single, has no kids, and is extremely successful. A woman doesn’t need a man for anything.

“Truth” is how I have described Handler. She finds truth and spews truth out. She commented on her abortion at the age of 16 in an interview with, “because that's what I should have done. Otherwise, I would now have a 20-year-old kid. Anyway, those are things that people shouldn't be dishonest about.”

When the subject of her body comes into play, Handler doesn’t hide any of that either. She often jokes about her boobs being out for anyone to see through Instagram or Twitter. Handler takes control of her own body. She doesn’t let media tell her what she should look like or that she should be modest or hide her body. She knows she works hard for it and flaunts it because it’s hot. And she has every right to do so.

Chelsea Handler’s boobs are more than just boobs. They’re a symbol for a woman giving the middle-finger to everything society tells women they need to be. She takes control of her life, her future and her body. She’s found great success and has done it how she wants it, without the support of a husband or kids.

She’s a true, powerful woman and I hope my boobs look like Chelsea Handler’s when I’m her age, and I hope to be more like Chelsea Handler when I’m her age.

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