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Chelsea Handler

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Chelsea Handler was born in Livingston, New Jersey, to a Mormon mother, Rita (Stoecker), who was born in Germany, and an American-born Jewish father, Seymour Handler. She was the youngest of six children. In 2002, Chelsea was one of the stars of Oxygen's Girls Behaving Badly (2002). Chelsea got her start doing stand-up comedy, she has since performed nationwide to sold out audiences. Chelsea is a best-selling author, writing the books "My Horizontal Life: A Collection of One Night Stands", "Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea" and "Chelsea Chelsea Bang Bang". Chelsea is a late-night talk show host, with Chelsea Lately (2007).
- IMDb mini biography by: Tracey

Is only the second woman to host a late-night US talk show, with Chelsea Lately (2007), after Joan Rivers, who hosted The Late Show on Fox from 1986 to 1987.
Lives in Los Angeles with her older brother, Roy Handler. Roy is also Chelsea's personal chef.
She is the youngest of 6 children. Siblings' names are Glen, Roy, Shoshana and Sydney. Their oldest brother, Chet, was killed in a hiking accident in the Grand Teton National Park on July 10, 1984 at age 22 when he fell 80 feet off a cliff.
Turned down request to pose nude in Playboy.
Opened up on the Rosie O'Donnell Show about her brother's death when she was 9 years old. Chelsea said her brother, Chet was hiking in the Grand Tetons and fell 80 feet off a cliff.

[on Are You There, Chelsea? (2012)] It's a dream come true to have someone else portray me. Because I've been living this life for a long time, and I'm over myself. It's a pleasure to play my sister because everything I've accused her of my whole life, I can now re-enact before her eyes. Her name isn't Sloane. We had to change her name for legal reasons so that my own family can't sue me.
Well, I don't live in the past like you, so I don't remember.
[on forcefully expressing her political beliefs] I don't care how annoying or loud I am. It's important to be loud.
I don't smoke a ton of weed. But I have weed in my drawer right now. I don't come and toke every night.
[2013, on choosing not to have children of her own]: I don't think I'd be a great mother ... I don't want to have a kid and have it raised by a nanny. I don't have the time to raise a child.