Chelsea Joy Handler (born February 25,
1975)
is an American
stand-up comedian,
humorist,
television host,
actress, and
best-selling author. She has her own
late-night talk show,
Chelsea Lately, on the
E! Cable Television Network. In 2009, she won a Bravo A-List Award. She also has her own column in Cosmopolitan and the UK Celebrity magazine
Now magazine.
Biography
Early life
Handler was born in the suburban town of
Livingston, New Jersey.
The youngest of six children, she was raised
Jewish by her
Mormon mother and Jewish father.
[ Handler has said that while growing up, she felt like an outsider, telling a reporter, "We lived in this nice Jewish neighborhood...Everyone had Mercedes and Jaguars, and I was going to school in a Pinto.”]
