Chelsea Handler
The Disruptor
Contrarian and drawn to the edge; challenges the settled answer.
Chelsea Handler earns The Disruptor because her provocations form a system, not a highlight reel. The youngest of six who assumed the family patriarch role, she spent decades dismantling conventions attached to women in comedy, television, and public life. Flying strangers to Antarctica, microdosing LSD with octogenarians, speaking openly about therapy and psychedelics before it was culturally safe, all of it serves her explicit mission, modeling an entirely unauthorized life for women.
“I want women to feel the way that I feel. I wrote my most recent book and it was all for women — this is what I did, this is how I live my life, here are the guidelines about how to be authentically who you are.”
“Anything that I'm scared of, I have to do. That's like a rule of mine. If I'm fearful, I want to conquer that fear.”
“Women are ascending always. I'm fifty, this is the best I've ever felt. We just get wiser and cooler and we give less fucks as we get older.”
Angie Martinez IRL: “Chelsea Handler On Dating Younger, Doing Drugs & Getting Your Life Unstuck”
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