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Chelsea Handler<\/a>, 51, is not sticking to conventional relationship<\/a> expectations, particularly in relation to age.<\/p>\n On Thursday’s episode of the “IRL podcast,<\/a>” the comic spoke about relationship and the explanation she would not need to construct her life round a associate.<\/p>\n Handler advised host Angie Martinez that she’s seeing a person 14 years her junior, whom she met at a on line casino in Las Vegas<\/a>. When requested about their age hole, Handler mentioned she would not “actually really feel something” about it, however added that she initially wasn’t trying to date somebody youthful.<\/p>\n “After I was younger, 20s, 30s, I all the time dated older guys. 20s, like 20 years older than me. I all the time dated 40-year-olds once I was 20, 50-year-olds once I was 30,” Handler mentioned.<\/p>\n However when she turned 40, she started rethinking that sample, and determined she did not need to date 60-year-olds.<\/p>\n “Like, I’ve obtained to flip it and reverse it, you understand? So, now I am heading in the other way as a result of I am too sizzling to be relationship a 65-year-old. Let’s be trustworthy,” Handler mentioned. “I imply, I do not work this tough on myself and take such excellent care of myself in order that I am unable to have enjoyable and, you understand, have time.”<\/p>\n She added that after she obtained to know the person she’s been seeing higher, that “age factor went out the window.”<\/p>\n Nonetheless, Handler mentioned she values her independence.<\/p>\n “I like touring lots. I like hooking up with guys. I do not prefer to get too severe. I do not need somebody in my area on a regular basis,” she mentioned.<\/p>\n She added that her “entire vibe” is about freedom. Though she sees marriage as “outdated,” Handler mentioned she’d do it for the irony.<\/p>\n “However, you understand, since I’ve bemoaned marriage my entire complete public life, I’d be actually hypocritical for me to get married, which suggests I am going to in all probability do it,” Handler mentioned.<\/p>\n Handler has lengthy been candid about her method to relationship.<\/p>\n Throughout an look on “Name Her Daddy<\/a>” in February 2025, Handler mentioned she prefers to dwell life on her personal phrases.<\/p>\n “I am not keen on long-term commitments, to work, to folks, to something. I’m a free spirit and I need to stay and soar like an eagle,” she advised host Alex Cooper.<\/p>\n She is not the one Hollywood star who has embraced relationships with youthful companions.<\/p>\n In 2024, Cher mentioned she prefers to date youthful males<\/a> as a result of older ones are sometimes intimidated by her. The singer has a 40-year age hole along with her boyfriend, Alexander Edwards.<\/p>\n In 2025, Tracee Ellis Ross<\/a> mentioned she dates youthful males as a result of males her age are sometimes “steeped in poisonous masculinity.<\/u><\/a>“<\/p>\n “And something that begins to scent of that for me \u2014 I did sufficient of it the place I used to be managed and felt like I used to be a possession or a prize \u2014 I simply have no real interest in it. And I cannot do it once more,” Ross mentioned.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n