This Is Why Chelsea Handler Stopped Posting Topless Skiing Photos
In years past, Chelsea Handler publicly celebrated her birthday in her birthday suit. As her social media followers know, the comedian would commemorate another year on the planet by skiing topless in an Instagram post. (Handler would blur out or strategically cover her naughtiest bits to avoid getting her wrist slapped by Instagram mods.) Like the Masters golf tournament, it was a tradition unlike any other. It went a little something like this:
But Handler has been more modest in recent years, replacing the near-naked photos and videos with ones featuring the comic skiing in a bathing suit.
What’s up with the change? Is Handler becoming more modest as she gets older? Comedian Fortune Feimster was determined to get to the bottom (or top?) of the mystery when she interviewed Handler recently on SiriusXM. “I check in on you on your socials because you’re usually skiing down a mountain topless and you know I’m not missing that,” Feimster said.
Not anymore, protested Handler. “The last five or six ski videos have been with tops on,” she explained. “You can still see the nipple through the top so there’s something in it for everyone.”
Does Handler rub snow on them for full effect, wondered Feimster.
No need, said Handler. “I’m in 10-degree weather, so they get pretty hard.”
But why did she put a halt to the topless posts? “My nephews asked me to stop,” she confessed. “I told them this is why I didn’t have children, to not have parameters set for me by children. But they said their friends at college were talking about me.”
That part didn’t bother Handler. “I thought, Great! I’m relevant to college kids. Perfect. That’s all really I could have ever asked for.”
But then she began having second thoughts. “I don’t want to humiliate (my nephews), you know,” she told Feimster about her newfound propriety. “I don’t want to be a joke.”
Feimster had a different take. Are the nephews enjoying the Handler-funded ski vacations? Are they enjoying the college money that Handler (hypothetically) provides? “Then your auntie is gonna ski topless.”
“Thank you for saying that,” said Handler, “so I didn’t have to.”
