Chelsea Handler Putin: you just know this one had to make the news. When the most daring comic of our generation takes on the self styled ruthless karate president of Russia in a nude picture, heads will roll, and Instagram accounts may get flagged.
Chelsea Handler is clearly no stranger to controversy and if anything is to be read from her recent antics, is not about to quit any time soon. Chelsea Handler recently posted a topless picture of herself riding a horse on Instagram. She posted the photo in comparison to Vladimir Putin's infamous shirtless horse riding photo. The comedian then posted "Anything a man can do, a woman has the right to do better. #kremlin." The Chelsea Handler Putin photo did get plenty of attention on Instagram but not the type Handler was anticipating.
Instagram shot down the picture in just ten minutes of it being posted. Handler then went to Twitter to rant about Instagram's shooting down of her photo for nudity violations. She tweeted, "Taking this down is sexist. I have every right to show I have a better body than Putin. pic.twitter.com/SFih1Aa17x"
She then went back on Instagram and posted the Chelsea Handler Putin photo once more daring Instagram to put it down again. She captioned next to it, "If instagram takes this down again, you're saying Vladimir Putin Has more 1st amendment rights than me. Talk to your bosses."
This is America, land of the free, except when it comes to internet nudity. The photo was taken down once more, this time, with a warning to Chelsea against further violations of the nudity policy.
Chelsea then went on Twitter and tweeted, "If a man posts a photo of his nipples, it's ok, but not a woman? Are we in 1825?" The Chelsea Handler Putin photo is definitely causing quite the sexism debate.
