Chelsea handler we don't get married, Netflix Special, new book

“We have microdosé the LSD and skié. It was a whole production! ”

It is not the average way to celebrate 50 years, but Chelsea Handler is not your average woman. Over the past five years, the actress has undone to her bikini – and sometimes less – to ring her birthday on the slopes. This year, she invited more than 20 women to join the Solier Mountain ski race in Idaho, which she documented on social networks.

The party did not stop there. During his birthday, Handler published his seventh book, “I'm going to have what she has”, her sixth bestseller of the New York Times n ° 1.

“I am in a place in my life where I try not to put this kind of pressure on myself,” she said Times. “I wanted to make sure that even if it was not n ° 1, I would be grateful and graceful and not be so competitive with myself or with others. To find out that it was No. 1 when I had accepted that it was perhaps not the best news. ”

She completed the important day by making the press and appearing in talk shows, with a live studio singing “happy birthday” and cake in each green room.

“It's a truly manipulative way to spend your birthday if you need attention,” she laughs while we are thinking about how it will eventually be common next year.

For fear that you thought Handler slows on Tuesday, she publishes her third comedy Netflix Special, “The Feeling”, who rides thematically “I will have what she has.” (A viral story in which she shares the two concerns her connection to a single potential with the former governor in disgrace in New York Andrew Cuomo, who now presents herself for the mayor of the city. “I am completely to give people a second chance” is her attitude towards his race. Prepubère body.

“Who were you before the world really submitted you?”

“Looking back was very significant for me because I realized (that) I was not cultivated, I did not become this woman – I was born in this way. Even when I was little, I couldn't wait to be a woman and live this life. I said to myself, “Take me out of this body and let this party start”. I wanted my own house, I wanted my own staff, I wanted to live in a great and brave and courageous way.

She has certainly achieved all of this, and she is delighted to have made her single and childless.

“I'm so proud of myself to never fall into marriage or have a baby when I know that these things are not natural to whom I am,” explains Handler. “I am precious without a husband. I am a queen with or without husband, and all women are therefore firmly what I think. ”

Jenny Mollen, actor and writer that Handler met on the shooting of the 2006 comedy “Cattle Call”, agrees. “She always knew what she wanted.”

“If it was not for Chelsea, I don't think I would have the career I have. I don't think I would be an author,” said Mollen. “There were so much that I was not afraid to do because I watched it do it first.”

“I am so proud of myself to never have fallen into marriage or to have a baby when I know that these things are not natural to whom I am,” explains Chelsea Handler.

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However, Handler is not religious, and she had another sexual awakening later in life.

“When you reach their fifties, you come back to who you are, you start to worry much less about what people think, and you are also much more present. The past is not a concern like it was in the twenties; do you worry what I had done, if I had said something to bother. I do that less often, so there is less regrettable.”

Pop culture also embraces the sexuality of older women, with the recent proliferation of Romanesque comedies on age. “I could also follow this road,” said Handler, referring to who we could see his market afterwards after having broken with his colleague Jo Koy in 2022 and recently linked to actor Ralph Fiennes.

For the moment, however, she is busy promoting her book and her special, and which comes out of her third consecutive year by organizing the Critics Choice Awards. “I love to make fun of celebrities and get drunk with them afterwards. It is sort of the perfect evening for me, ”she said about what brings her back to this particular ceremony.

“In 2025, the easiest way to get a end-of-evening talk show as a woman is to bring the creators of 'hacks' to write a fictitious story about it,” she joked in her opening monologue on the continuous shortage of women at the end of the evening.

The star of “hacks” Hannah Einbinder, one of the many women of female comics has opened doors, says Handler is his “own Deborah Vance: a fabulous blonde blonde actor that I watch and admire”.

Fortune Feimster has worked as a writer on “Chelsea lately” in his first comedy work when the rest of the industry would not give him a second glance.

“No one really knew what to do with me because I was different and it was not considered a positive at the time. People have not adopted uniqueness as much as they do, ”explains Feimster. “Chelsea was the person who saw what was different in people, and how it was an advantage and a positive thing. She saw something in me before most people and I am very grateful for that. ”

The manager is also preparing for a residence in Las Vegas. She will perform monthly until 2027 at Chelsea at Cosmopolitan, which was “evidence” for her, because the calendar “with low commitment” meant that she did not have to uproot her life in Los Angeles to move to Sin City. She is the first actress to have a residence on the site.

“I had this lucky casino,” she said, noting that each time she had a concert at the hotel, she and her friends won big when they played later. “Come find me and play as close as possible to where I play!”

The scale of the manager's projects satisfies his desire for human connection.

“I love people, I like interpersonal affairs, drama between family members or relationships (in), fractive conversations within a family or work dynamic,” she says. His longtime podcast, “Dear Chelsea”, allows him to “touch the base with real people. I am a real person, no matter how much I have become.

Although she writes in “I will have what she has” on the difficulty she found difficult for the accommodation of her eponymous Talk show Netflix in 2016 and 2017 after her confidence was shaken, she is not opposed to doing something like that if the good opportunity arises.

“I like to do this work,” she says. “I like to regurgitate news, I like to regurgitate pop culture. I am one of the best people who can do it. This is one of my strengths. I am fast, I am pointed, I can keep information and I can use it and distill it for people. ”

And although the political landscape is more fractured now than at the time, the manager is galvanized.

“Women are not going anywhere. This is why men are so afraid of us, because we have become so powerful and independent. The repercussions of #MeToo was roe v. Wade being overthrown. The men were like, “Oh, you think you are going to tell us now? Let us remember who is really in charge. Our whole political landscape is an impact of #MeToo, Black Lives Matter, us raising and expression of what becomes intolerable.

However, however, it is optimistic by nature.

“I don't lose hope. It's a moment in time, it's not the rest of the time.”