{"id":43769,"date":"2026-04-07T11:39:05","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T11:39:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=43769"},"modified":"2026-04-07T11:39:05","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T11:39:05","slug":"comedian-chelsea-handler-bashes-marriage-as-outdated-says-youre-kind-of-property-a-little-bit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=43769","title":{"rendered":"Comedian Chelsea Handler Bashes Marriage as &#8216;Outdated,&#8217; Says &#8216;You&#8217;re Kind of Property a Little Bit&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Comedian and Democrat activist Chelsea Handler bashed marriage as \u201coutdated\u201d\u00a0and \u201ca really silly idea,\u201d adding that she prioritizes \u201cfreedom\u201d above all else. \u201cYou\u2019re kind of, like, property a little bit,\u201d the 51-year-old said of marriage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"a9d-pre\">\u201cI\u2019ve never been very thirsty for a man or a partner,\u201d\u00a0Handler said during a recent appearance on\u00a0the <em>Angie Martinez IRL <\/em>podcast.\u00a0\u201cYou\u2019ve got to really kind of get my attention for me to pay attention in a serious way, because otherwise it\u2019s a bunch of casual encounters.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a9d\"\/>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a9d\"\/>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"\/>\n<p>Chelsea Handler\u00a0went on to say that she \u201clikes\u201d these casual encounters.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI like that. I like traveling a lot. I like hooking up with guys. I don\u2019t like to get too serious. I don\u2019t want someone in my space all the time. I just am not interested in that,\u201d\u00a0she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy whole vibe is about freedom. I want freedom,\u201d Handler added, before asking Angie Martinez if she has any children, to which the podcast host replied, \u201cI do, but they\u2019re older.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"a9d-pre\">To that, Handler implied that\u00a0Martinez is now free because she has adult kids, stating, \u201cThey\u2019re cooked. Done. Freedom,\u201d which may suggest that she herself perhaps would have enjoyed having children, so long as she didn\u2019t have to put in the work raising them during the earlier years of their lives.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B2\" class=\"a9d\"\/>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a9d\"\/>\n<p>\u201cI love the idea that I don\u2019t have to check in with anybody about anything I do,\u201d the comedian said. \u201cI don\u2019t have to consider or consult with anyone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Watch Below:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Chelsea Handler On Dating Younger, Doing Drugs &amp; Getting Your Life Unstuck | IRL Angie Martinez\" width=\"1170\" height=\"658\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QObgTDZUMuM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Handler went on to convey that taking random trips to Europe is much more important than allowing her own\u00a0genome to continue on after she is one day gone.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf I want to get on a plane and go to Paris, which I will do on in a moment\u2019s notice, I will go to\u00a0Majorca for a month and fuck off by myself,\u201d the <em>Chelsea Lately<\/em> host said.<\/p>\n<p>After being asked if she \u201cbelieves in [having] somebody to grow old with,\u201d Handler replied by insinuating that she would like to keep herself available to the planet\u2019s more than eight billion people.<\/p>\n<p class=\"a9d-pre\">\u201cYeah, sure, but there\u2019s eight million of us,\u201d she said, appearing to accidentally say \u201cmillion\u201d instead of \u201cbillion.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a9d adSo\"\/>\n<p>\u201cYou can\u2019t think of yourself\u00a0as like, \u2018Oh, I\u2019m alone.\u2019 You have to think of yourself as like, \u2018I\u2019m free. I\u2019m free now to make every decision I want for myself,&#8217;\u201d Handler added. \u201cYou\u00a0can do everything you want. You\u2019re going to have a really good time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere in the conversation, Handler told\u00a0Martinez that she is currently in a\u00a0relationship with a \u201cmuch younger\u201d man she has dubbed \u201cCowboy,\u201d who she met after sitting\u00a0next to him at a blackjack table in Las Vegas and asking him to borrow $1,000.<\/p>\n<p>Despite hitting it off with Cowboy, the comedian still insists marriage is \u201cnot something I attain to do,\u201d calling it an \u201coutdated\u201d and \u201csilly\u201d tradition.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just think marriage is so outdated.\u00a0It\u2019s just a really silly idea,\u201d Handler said, adding that she believes it would be \u201creally hypocritical\u201d for her to get married now, after having \u201cbemoaned marriage my whole entire public life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhich means I\u2019ll probably do it,\u201d Handler added of marriage. \u201cAt some point, I might just go, \u2018Okay, fuck it. I\u2019m 50 years old, so I might as well just go get married. What could go wrong at this point?&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"a9d-pre\">\u201cBut I don\u2019t care about marriage,\u201d\u00a0she added. \u201cI feel like that\u2019s a very patriarchal thing anyway. You\u2019re kind of, like, property a little bit.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B4\" class=\"a9d adSo\"\/>\n<p>In 2024, Handler\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/entertainment\/2024\/10\/18\/chelsea-handler-im-a-threat-to-straight-men-because-im-child-free-and-single\/\">claimed<\/a> she is a \u201cthreat\u201d to \u201cstraight men\u201d because she has consciously made the decision to spend her life as a \u201cchild-free\u201d and \u201csingle\u201d woman. In 2019, she\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/entertainment\/2019\/04\/13\/chelsea-handler-jokes-about-having-abortions-while-promoting-netflix-series-on-white-privilege\/\">joked<\/a> about having two abortions after being twice impregnated by her \u201cfirst black boyfriend.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p><em>Alana Mastrangelo is a reporter for Breitbart News. You can follow her\u00a0on\u00a0<a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ARmastrangelo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">Facebook<\/a>\u00a0and X at\u00a0<a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ARmastrangelo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">@ARmastrangelo<\/a>, and on\u00a0<a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/alanamastrangelo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/entertainment\/2026\/04\/06\/watch-comedian-chelsea-handler-bashes-marriage-as-outdated-says-youre-kind-of-property-a-little-bit\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comedian and Democrat activist Chelsea Handler bashed marriage as \u201coutdated\u201d\u00a0and \u201ca really silly idea,\u201d adding that she prioritizes \u201cfreedom\u201d above all else. \u201cYou\u2019re kind of, like,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43770,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43769\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/43770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}