Chelsea Handler Reveals She Had Two Abortions at 16 and Didn't Regret It at All
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The 41-year-old comedian reveals that she had two abortions when she was 16, and it's because she was going through 'a very bad stage' in her life.

AceShowbiz - Chelsea Handler reveals she had two abortions when she was 16. In an essay for Playboy magazine's "Freedom" issue, the "Chelsea Lately" star also says that she has no regrets about her decisions to terminate both pregnancies.

At first, the 41-year-old comedian thought that she would be capable of raising a child and she didn't even think about ending the pregnancy. "Getting an abortion wasn't the first idea that popped into my unripened brain. I was going through a very bad stage in my life," she writes.

"I hated my parents and I was having unprotected sex with my boyfriend, who was not someone I should've been having sex with in the first place, never mind unprotected sex. I wasn't really playing with a full deck of cards, and when I got pregnant I just thought, 'Why not? I can have a baby. Maybe I'll have twins and give them rhyming names!' " she continues.

While she might have thought of keeping the pregnancy, her parents had different opinions. "Of course, the idea that I would have a child and raise it by myself at that age, when I couldn't even find my way home at night, was ridiculous," she says. "My parents recognized that, so they acted like parents for one of the very first times in my life and took me to Planned Parenthood. I felt parented, ironically, while I was getting an abortion. And when it was over, I was relieved in every possible way."

Chelsea admits that she did the same mistake for the second time within the same year. She got pregnant again, and she struggled to pay for her second abortion. "I had to scrape together the $230 to pay Planned Parenthood, but it was a safe abortion," she shares. "Getting unintentionally pregnant more than once is irresponsible, but it's still necessary to make a thoughtful decision. We all make mistakes all the time. I happened to f**k up twice at the age of 16. I'm grateful that I came to my senses and was able to get an abortion legally without risking my health or bankrupting myself or my family."

However, she says that she didn't regret that she ended her pregnancies. She even points out that she may not be who she is today if she didn't make the decisions. "I'm 41 now," she said. "I don't ever look back and think, 'God, I wish I'd had that baby.' "

She's grateful that the 1973 Supreme Court ruling Roe v. Wade allowed her to "live [her] life without an unplanned child born out of an unhealthy relationship." She goes on saying, "We're too far ahead of the game. Once you go forward in history, you don't go backward. We've already made the decision, and now we're moving on to transgender rights. And it's a wrap on men deciding what women can do with their bodies."

Chelsea understood that not everyone in the U.S. agreed about undergoing abortion, but she says it's OK. "We have 7.3 billion people on this planet. Anybody who carefully decides not to become a parent - let alone a bad parent, which is what I would have become - should be applauded for making a smart and sustainable decision," she adds. "I'd love for somebody to try to tell me what to do with my body. I dare them."

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