Courtney Stodden went naked for her milestone 30th birthday this week – more than a decade after becoming famous as the ‘child bride.’
She shot to notoriety in 2011 after her acting coach Doug Hutchison married her when she was just 16 years old and he was 50.
They split up in 2017 after a tempestuous on-off relationship that Courtney subsequently characterized as ‘grooming.’
Now, years on from their divorce, Courtney has celebrated her ‘Dirty 30’ with a raunchy album posted to her Instagram page.
She posed naked in bed with two large balloons positioned strategically over her front as she cheerfully bit into a festive cupcake.
Courtney Stodden went naked for her milestone 30th birthday – more than a decade after becoming famous as the ‘child bride’ of Doug Hutchinson
The showbiz personality, who uses both ‘she’ and ‘they’ pronouns, was the image of good cheer as she beamed for the cameras in her pictures.
Courtney, who got engaged to her third fiancé Jared Safier, 41, in June, did not specify who took the suggestive photos.
Jared’s ring could be seen glittering on Courtney’s left hand, and a couple of pink roses were tucked into the bedclothes.
The birthday girl clearly enjoyed a warm rapport with her photographer, laughing at the camera and at one point playfully covering her face.
She met Doug at 16 through an online acting class he was teaching, and in a matter of months he married her at the Chapel Of The Flowers in Las Vegas in 2011.
‘We are totally supportive of this marriage,’ Courtney’s mother Krista Keller told Radar Online at the time. ‘Doug is a wonderful man and we love him.’
Insisting the couple were ‘very much in love,’ Krista said: ‘Courtney was a virgin when she married Doug. She is a good Christian girl.’
Doug, who has now had three wives, told Fox News in 2020 that he ‘lost my family and friends’ and ‘shot my career in the head’ by marrying Courtney.
Now, years on from their divorce, Courtney celebrated her ‘Dirty 30’ with a raunchy album posted to her Instagram page Wednesday
She posed naked in bed with two large balloons positioned strategically over her front as she cheerfully bit into a festive cupcake
Courtney, who got engaged to her third fiancé Jared Safier, 41, in June, did not specify who took the suggestive photos
Jared’s ring could be seen glittering on Courtney’s left hand, and a couple of pink roses were tucked into the bedclothes
The birthday girl clearly enjoyed a warm rapport with her photographer, laughing at the camera and at one point playfully covering her face
During her time with Doug, Courtney became pregnant and endured a miscarriage, and she has since been open about the pain of her loss.
In 2016, Courtney appeared on The Mother/Daughter Experiment: Celebrity Edition, where another layer of her troubles surfaced.
Krista claimed she had an ’emotional affair’ with Doug, who denied her allegations and denounced his mother-in-law as ‘a compulsive liar.’
In Doug’s version of events, Krista told him she loved him two weeks after he married Courtney, but he did not respond in kind.
On the show, Courtney accused Krista of giving her permission to marry Doug as a ploy to ultimately have a relationship with him herself.
Courtney and Doug split in 2013 and then reunited in 2014, but by 2017 it emerged that they had separated again, and in 2018 she filed for divorce.
When the divorce was finalized in March 2020, she posted a throwback snap of Doug kissing her at Hollywood’s Chateau Marmont and wrote that ‘I look back at this picture and feel absolutely taken advantage of.’
She told Doug: ‘I’ll always love you; yet I’ll always be angry. You’ve left me – a child woman, feeling belittled and confused. These things I shall overcome. I wish you well. But please don’t ever do this to another minor again.’
She shot to notoriety in 2011 after her acting coach Doug Hutchison married her when she was just 16 years old and he was 50; they are pictured in 2015
Courtney became engaged to producer Chris Sheng in 2021 when he proposed to her with a 5-carat, radiant-cut VVS ring estimated at $500,000
The couple split up in 2023, and that August she became romantically involved with her current fiancé Jared Safier, whom she is pictured with this April
Courtney became engaged to producer Chris Sheng in 2021 when he proposed to her with a 5-carat, radiant-cut VVS ring estimated at $500,000.
The couple split up in 2023, and that August she became romantically involved with her current fiancé Jared Safier, who is also a movie producer.
During a bout of spring cleaning this year, Courtney dramatically flushed Chris’ ring down the toilet – and days later, it emerged that she and Jared were engaged.
Jared popped the question to Courtney at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel with a ring identical to the one Chris presented her with, according to TMZ.
