Chelsea Handler will not sit down and shut up. What is more, Chelsea Handler will not stop showing her butt on Instagram.
As if this were the great civil rights issue of our time, Chelsea Handler has taken it on as her personal mission to wear Instagram down one blow at a time.
Chelsea Handler and Instagram came to a battle of words when the company removed a photo that Handler had posted because it violated their Terms of Service. She showed too much skin. In the months that followed, Chelsea Handler came very close to the TOS line, almost daring Instagram to do something. Occasionally she crossed it and her pic would be deleted, such as the one of her skiing topless.
Recently, Instagram issued stricter guidelines about the display of nipples, buttocks, and other bits of skin on its site.
“We know that there are times when people might want to share nude images that are artistic or creative in nature, but for a variety of reasons, we don’t allow nudity on Instagram. This includes photos, videos, and some digitally-created content that show sexual intercourse, genitals, and close-ups of fully-nude buttocks. It also includes some photos of female nipples, but photos of post-mastectomy scarring and women actively breastfeeding are allowed. Nudity in photos of paintings and sculptures is OK, too.”
Well, leave it to Chelsea handler to test that rule out.
When the pic went up, fans held their collective breath to see if Chelsea Handler would be finally banned from the site. Maybe Instagram feels that some plumber crack from Handler is within its limits of tolerance and not “fully-nude buttocks.” The pic has been up for a few days now. It joins these: