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Chelsea Handler goes topless for Mardi Gras

By Veronica Linares
Chelsea Handler shared a topless photo on Twitter in commemoration of Fat Tuesday. File photo by David Silpa
1 of 3 | Chelsea Handler shared a topless photo on Twitter in commemoration of Fat Tuesday. File photo by David Silpa | License Photo

LOS ANGELES, Feb. 18 (UPI) -- Chelsea Handler celebrated Fat Tuesday by posting an topless photo of herself on Twitter.

The 39-year-old comedian and a couple of friends posed for the image in Mardi Gras masks and beads around their necks. Handler captioned the NSFW photo "Merry Christmas."

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The star spent Mardi Gras in New Orleans with her friends Sandra Bullock, Whitney Cummings, Michael McDonald and Kerri Kenney-Silver. Handler was photographed watching the parade and celebrating topless on the street.

Handler's topless image is a nod to her ongoing campaign against Instagram's nudity policies. She told Elle magazine in February that she was at "war" with the image sharing site over the right to "keep [her] topless photos on it.

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"I don't even understand," she said after noting that men are allowed to show their nipples on the site. "Once somebody tells me I can't do something I have to figure out how to do it."

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