At 16, Courtney Stodden married a 51-year-old man. This week, she married again.

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Courtney Stodden has gotten remarried, this time to a man who isn't three times her age.

Stodden (now 30) married the 41-year-old TV producer, Jared Safier, in a "last-minute" wedding in Palm Springs, California, she confirmed to Us Weekly.

"We planned on getting married, and we didn't have a date. We just kind of looked at each other, and we're the same kind of crazy. We just looked at each other and we're just like, 'This is the perfect time to do it,'" Stodden said.

The couple only started planning the wedding three weeks ago with just 20 guests in attendance.

Courtney wore a $60,000 vintage wedding dress, her mum's wedding ring, and the wedding guests feasted on a vegan spread, including a vegan carrot wedding cake.

"It's the holidays, it's already stressful and we just bought a house together, so we're dealing with that. Our family was like, 'Are you guys crazy?' and we're like, 'Yeah!' It just felt like the right time," she said.

"I'm really a free spirit and I've always been that way and I don't think that's going to be going away after the marriage, and so I just felt like it was the right time and it all just came together."

Considering Stodden's traumatic few years, she's feeling "excited" for this next chapter. "I feel like I am on a journey of where I'm supposed to be," Stodden said.

"Everything that has happened up to this point has led me here."

Courtney Stodden marries Jared Safier. Image: Instagram/@courtneyastodden.

Stodden was first married as a teenager.

Stodden was just 16 years old when her father walked her down the aisle to a man three times her age. Stodden's father was 47, making him four years younger than his child's husband, 51-year-old Doug Hutchison.

The aspiring actor and singer was marrying Hutchison, known in Hollywood for his role in The Green Mile alongside Tom Hanks.

The couple met online after Stodden — who identified as non-binary, using they/them pronouns in 2021, but has since reverted to she/her — expressed interest in Hutchison’s acting workshop.

The first day they met in person, Hutchison proposed and they married in Las Vegas in 2011.

Due to her age, Stodden's parents had to sign permission forms for her child to marry Hutchison.

"We are totally supportive of this marriage. Doug is a wonderful man and we love him," Stodden's mother, Krista Stodden, told Radar Online.

On television, during an interview with Good Morning America, the couple — who made worldwide headlines at the time — announced to the nation Stodden was a virgin when she married.

Watch: Courtney Stodden and Doug Hutchison discuss their marriage in this 2011 interview. Post continues below.

During the marriage to Hutchinson, the couple were also forced to deny rumours that Stodden had received plastic surgery, saying, "Courtney’s plastic surgeon was God".

Asked if she was in the marriage to advance her career, Stodden responded: "If it does, that’s just another beautiful blessing that God hands me. But if I'm just with him for the rest of my life, supporting him, that would make me happy too."

In 2012, one year into their marriage, they appeared on reality TV show, Couples Therapy.

According to The Daily Beast, the couple had a number of issues observed by the show’s therapist, Dr. Jenn Berman.

"Hutchison admitted that he does not like the attention his wife’s scanty wardrobe provokes and that he is uncomfortable with her friendship with an ex-boyfriend," the publication explained.

Courtney Stodden and Doug Hutchison in 2011, the year they became married. Image: Getty.

Their appearance on the show was depicted as a trainwreck and the signifier of more than a few cracks in their marriage. So it was no surprise in 2013 when the couple announced they were separating.

In a statement to The Daily Mail, the couple announced: "After two and a half years of marriage, Courtney and Doug have decided to become legally separated."

Nine months later, in 2014, they reunited and renewed their vows.

Stodden's mother Krista, told People: "[Stodden] got a taste of being single... But she found out she really, really loves Doug."

Doug Hutchison, Courtney Stodden and Krista Keller Stodden in 2012. Image: Getty.

In 2016, Stodden announced she was pregnant with her first child, but tragically suffered a miscarriage.

In an interview with Allegedly with Theo Von & Matthew Cole Weiss, the reality star, who appeared on Celebrity Big Brother UK, talked about the possibility of trying for more children with Doug in the future.

"It’s hard to say another kid. Yeah, I suppose so. I'm still in the grieving process, so it’s hard for me to answer that question. But you know, you never know. I'm only 22, so I have a long time to think about that."

"I've had so many people reach out to me — men and women — who’ve experienced it and they just said that I’ve helped them so much. When you think you’re alone, not only in a miscarriage but in any trial in life, you feel like you are the only one and the world is closing in around you. I don’t have any regrets about that at all. I got so much support and felt like I wasn’t alone in that process," Stodden said on the podcast.

The couple's on-and-off again relationship continued to face struggles, and in 2018 Stodden filed for divorce. In March 2020, her divorce was finalised.

To mark their divorce, Stodden posted on Instagram saying looking at an old picture of her made her "feel absolutely taken advantage of".

"I've been scared to even speak up about feeling groomed or being verbally abused during the almost 10-year marriage because I was a child and he was 50.

"I've felt completely trapped, manipulated and at times abandoned by adults... growing up in such an environment — it became a lonely and dark place.

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It’s March 3rd, 2020 - today I am officially divorced from actor Doug Hutchison. It’s an emotional day for me. God only knows how he’s feeling, but I can tell you that it’s for the better. I look back at this picture and feel absolutely taken advantage of. I’ve been scared to even speak up about feeling groomed or being verbally abused during the almost 10 year marriage because I was a child and he was 50 when we married but I’m a woman now and it’s time for me to put my big girl pants on and speak on this matter. I’ve felt completely trapped, manipulated and at times abandoned by adults // growing up in such an environment — it became a lonely and dark place. Stay tuned for my book. And to 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. It’s not right... even if the parent signs off. Wait a respectable amount of time before marrying. Children aren’t on your level. I’ll always love you regardless. Be better. As shall I.

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Addressing Doug directly, Stodden wrote: "I’ll always love you; yet I'll always be angry... Please don’t ever do this to another minor again. It's not right..."

Hutchison also discussed his marriage to Stodden in February 2020, telling Fox News, "I shot my career in the head for love. And in doing so, I lost my family and friends. I was suddenly on the Titanic and everyone was fleeing except for me and Courtney."

In August 2020, a then-26-year-old Stodden reflected on the past decade of living in the public eye under such intense scrutiny.

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"Ten years ago, I turned 16. Nothing could have prepared me for what was around the corner. I had a child's mind, a teenager's body and I was a virgin.

"According to many, I was 'mature' enough to date men my father's age (or older), and eventually marry one.

"Looking back, I now see how desperately I craved my own father's attention. He didn't teach me how to drive. I didn't know how to write a check. I never went to prom. Instead, I dropped out of high school, went to Las Vegas, and with the blessing of my parents, I wed a 50-year-old man I had just met in person.

"I gave him my all — my body, my mind, my heart, my soul. No one stopped me. No one stepped in and said that this wasn't okay. Instead, after achieving a kind of fame I wasn't prepared for, the world became my jury. I hid myself beneath a blonde mask, and eventually I lost my complete identity."

Courtney Stodden falls in love again, with 41-year-old Jared Safier.

Now 30, Stodden has just married for the second time, a man 11-years her senior, Jared Safier.

Their relationship began in the summer of 2023 and quickly progressed into a serious and committed partnership. The couple became engaged in June 2024.

In between her marriages, Stodden was also briefly engaged to film producer Chris Sheng, but this ended in 2023. Upon its end, Stodden reportedly flushed her $500,000 engagement ring down the toilet.

Her marriage to Safier, an Emmy-winning producer known for his work on the web series The Bay, marks a fresh beginning for Stodden. They're reportedly planning a honeymoon in Italy and Safier has called Stodden the "love of my life."

This article was originally published on May 31, 2024 and has since been updated with new information.

Feature image: Getty/Instagram/@courtneyastodden.