Courtney Stodden’s Next Act(ivist)

In 2011, Courtney Stodden rocketed to tabloid infamy as the child bride of actor (“actor”) Doug Hutchinson, best known for playing stretchy serial killer Tooms in the first season of The X-Files. 2011 doesn’t seem like THAT long ago, and when we talk about pop culture history, we often point to the 2000s as the stand of disgusting tabloid treatment of celebrities and line-crossing behaviors, but the early 2010s were just as bad. There was a pivot point around 2013-14 where thin