Minisode: Snatch That Kid Up with Chelsea + Catherine
Life Will Be the Death of Me with Chelsea Handler
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4.6 • 4.6K Ratings
🗓️ 19 December 2025
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Chelsea and Catherine talk with a couple exploring the foster system… for the second time.
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| 0:35.3 | Hi, guys, it's Chelsea and Catherine here. Hi. So today, Catherine, we are doing one of our mini-sodes, and so we have one couple calling in for couples counseling, correct? Exactly, exactly. And for anybody else who wants to write in, please write in. Yes, for sure. Chelsea gives great advice for couples. Yes, yes. I am just, I'm flawless in my advice giving, everybody. I mean, |
| 0:56.5 | so far, it's been four years. I will. I mean, not four years of a hundred. I'm sure there's |
| 1:01.7 | some upset customers, but that's part for the course, you know? It's not like I have a degree. |
| 1:07.3 | Just operating on, you know, vibes. Good vibes. I'm operating on good fucking vibes, okay? |
| 1:12.7 | Okay. |
| 1:13.4 | So our question today on our couples counseling with Chelsea comes from Lynn and Kara. |
| 1:20.4 | Dear Chelsea, we're writing in for some advice on whether or how to expand our family. |
| 1:25.8 | My partner and I have been married for six years, and we grew our |
| 1:28.4 | family a year into marriage in a somewhat unconventional but deeply meaningful way. As two women |
| 1:34.2 | in our prime fertility years, we consider the full range of options, sperm donor, private or |
| 1:39.9 | international adoption, fostering, adopting from foster care, you name it. Ultimately, we were |
| 1:45.8 | matched with an 11-year-old girl whom we fostered for three years before finally becoming her legal |
| 1:50.6 | guardians. Our plan was to, was always to adopt her, but the system had its own timeline. Whole story there. |
| 1:56.9 | She's now 16, and we love her dearly. At the time, we welcomed her into our home, the idea was to have more children. But we quickly realized that wouldn't be the right decision for her or for us at the time. Now, with her only a few years from graduating and us both still just 34, the question of whether to grow our family is back on the table. Here's where it gets complicated. There seem to be ethical concerns |
| 2:18.5 | around every path. Spirm donor. Have you seen the man with a thousand kids? Enough said. Private |
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