Chelsea Handler Mocks Vladimir Putin With Topless Horseback Photo

"Anything a man can do, a woman has the right to do better. #kremlin" NSFW, obviously. Update: Handler said she is boycotting Instagram, after they removed the post multiple times.

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Michelle Broder Van Dyke
by Michelle Broder Van Dyke

BuzzFeed News Reporter

Updated — Oct. 31, 4:40 p.m. ET:

Comedian Chelsea Handler, 39, posted a picture to her Instagram account Thursday evening featuring an infamous shot of Vladmir Putin riding a horse shirtless, adjacent a photo of herself doing the same thing.

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About 10 minutes after being posted to Instagram the image was removed. Instagram does have a policy against nudity:

You may not post violent, nude, partially nude, discriminatory, unlawful, infringing, hateful, pornographic or sexually suggestive photos or other content via the Service.

Handler is certainly not shy about showing off her body. On Oct. 6, she displayed a breast on Twitter as a way to get people to listen to her SiriusXM Town Hall Q& A interview.

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Twitter: @chelseahandler

She also posted this nude silhouette of herself in August:

Less than an hour after the Instagram post was removed, she posted a screenshot of it to her Twitter account and wrote "Taking this down is sexist. I have every right to show I have a better body than Putin."

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Twitter: @chelseahandler

She followed that up with a pic of the take down notice from Instagram and said: "If a man posts a photo of his nipple, it's ok, but not a woman? Are we in 1825?"

About two hours after her original post on Instagram, she gave it another shot, writing: "If instagram takes this down again, you're saying Vladimir Putin Has more 1st amendment rights than me. Talk to your bosses."

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Twitter: @chelseahandler

After being up for almost 45 minutes, the post was also removed from Instagram.

Handler posted on Friday that she was saying "bye bye" to Instagram and that her followers "can now find my dogs and my breasts on Twitter."

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