Courtney Stodden

Courtney Alexis Stodden (born August 29, 1994) is an American media personality, model, and singer.

Courtney Alexis Stodden was born on August 29, 1994, in Tacoma, Washington to Krista Kay Keller and Alex John Stodden.

She has two sisters, Ashley and Brittany, 9 and 11 years older than Stodden.

Stodden describes her childhood as "beautiful and fun", stating that she was "extremely spoiled, in a good way."

From a very young age, Stodden has stated that her passion was singing and writing her own music.

She was raised in Ocean Shores, Washington.

In 2009, Stodden hosted a cable access TV show produced by North Beach Community TV in Ocean Shores, The Courtney Stodden Show, which ran for five episodes.

In October 2009, Stodden competed as Miss Ocean Shores Teen USA in the 2010 Miss Washington Teen USA pageant, though she did not win the title.

In 2010, Stodden released the original songs "Car Candy", "Crazy", "Don't Put It on Me", "Hurting People", and "We Are America".

Star Observer ranked "Don't Put It on Me" as number eleven on their list of The 11 Best Songs of '11.

Stodden said, "'Don't Put It On Me' is a kind of tongue-in-cheek song that I didn't take seriously at all, but it obviously had a good message to it."

After competing in beauty pageants in her home state of Washington and releasing original music, then-16-year-old Stodden came to international attention after being wed to 51-year-old actor Doug Hutchison in 2011.

The controversy and media attention surrounding the marriage led Stodden to appear on the reality television shows Couples Therapy (2012) and Celebrity Big Brother (2013), and later appearances on Reality Ex-Wives (2015), The Mother/Daughter Experiment (2016), Celebs Go Dating (2017), and Courtney (2020).

In July 2012, Stodden and Hutchison were interviewed about their relationship on the Fox talk show Father Albert, in an episode of ABC's Good Morning America, and E! News.

The couple appeared as cast members in the second season of the VH1 reality television series Couples Therapy, which premiered in October 2012.

The series features publicly known couples receiving therapy for relationship problems.

According to Stodden, the couple enrolled in therapy to resolve "age-difference issues such as communication."

Despite criticism leveled at the couple, Dr. Jenn Berman, the marriage, family, and child therapist who worked with the couple during their appearance on the show, opined that she did not believe that Hutchison deliberately sought out young people, saying, "He's not a predator. He's not someone, who if Courtney left him, would be trolling the Internet or high schools for underage girls. That's not his m.o. This is not a guy who was seeking out teenagers. He was teaching a class, she wanted to be an actress, it was an acting class ... And that's how it started."

Though Berman was eventually surprised by the dynamic between the two, she commented on her initial hesitations about working with the couple, saying, "I believe it was the wrong decision to let a 16-year-old marry a man in his 50s. It's uncomfortable to see... [at first] I said to my producer, 'I think this guy is a pedophile...I don't know if I can work with these people.' I don't condone it, but I do see that this is a married couple that is genuinely married and she has marital issues that needed to be worked on. I came in saying, 'She's a victim, he's a predator.' What I found out was that she has a lot more power in this relationship and he is far more powerless than I expected. His family has completely disowned him... He unfortunately has nothing besides her."

Hutchison was also defended by Stodden's mother, Krista Keller, who praised Hutchison for the kindness with which he treats Stodden.

In August 2013, Stodden became a housemate on the twelfth season of the British version of Celebrity Big Brother but was evicted on Day 21, two days before the season finale, after receiving the fewest votes to save against Carol McGiffin, Louie Spence, Mario Falcone and Vicky Entwistle.

That October, Stodden appeared in a photo-op for PETA, which depicted her wearing a lettuce bikini to promote vegetarianism.

On March 18, 2014, the video for 50 Cent's "Don't Worry Bout It" was released, featuring a cameo appearance by Stodden.

That August, Stodden appeared in an episode of the Reelz reality television series Hollywood Hillbillies.

Stodden's mother, Krista Keller, initially served as Stodden's manager, but quit in May 2015, citing "creative differences".

During her marriage, Stodden was managed by Hutchison.

On May 14, 2015, Vivid Entertainment released a solo sex tape created by Stodden.

Stodden stated that she would donate what she was paid to charity.

On August 19, 2015, Rich Kid Mafia (RKM), a Los Angeles-based entertainment company whose primary services include artist management, digital marketing and music production, signed Stodden to an exclusive international management and development deal.

In March 2016 Stodden appeared alongside her mother in the pilot episode of Lifetime series The Mother/Daughter Experiment: Celebrity Edition.

The same year, Stodden made her feature film debut in the independent film Love Addict.

In 2017, Stodden said to Radar Online that she was bullied and abused over her mature looks from age 12 when she was in the sixth grade until her mother pulled her out of school at 16.

Bullies had reportedly attacked her and fractured her left arm and she felt unsafe.

She continued her education by being home schooled through an online private Christian academy.

Stodden began in the entertainment industry as a youth by modeling.

, Stodden's measurements were listed as 36-23-35 and 5 ft in height.

In 2019, Stodden signed a deal with FNL Network to star in a self-titled reality show created by director Rocco Leo Gaglioti.

In March 2020 Stodden finalized her divorce with Hutchinson.

Stodden spent her time during the COVID-19 pandemic working on a memoir, recording a new album, starting a cosmetics line, and running an OnlyFans account.

In May 2021, Stodden said that in 2011 television personality Chrissy Teigen tweeted and privately messaged her urging her to kill herself.