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Born for Reality: Courtney Stodden and Tavi Gevinson

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"Here you will find a timeless energy of beauty & thought. It touches everything! Strength, Confidence, & endurance. Get caught looking; exclusively for you!"
— Courtney Stodden's webpage

"It's really interesting how people, how the world, is trying to figure out what it means to have an extension of our identity, or a whole new identity, online."
— Tavi Gevinson

Courtney Stodden is the child bride (17) of Doug Hutchinson (51). Quick quiz. Is Stodden:

a) A professional model
b) An elaborate drag ruse
c) A typical teenage girl
d) All three

The answer? Somewhere between C and D. Courtney Stodden is a 17-year-old aspiring pop star who can be generally described as "mature-looking." She looks less like a teenage girl than a middle-aged divorcee attempting to look like a woman in her early 20s trying to look older. She recently married Hutchinson, a character actor who played "Horace Goodspeed" on Lost, "Loony Bin Jim" in Punisher: War Zone, and various small roles with names such as "Ifty," "Baseline," "Hoop," "Obie," and "Sproles." Most notably to me he played "Tooms" in two terrifying episodes of The X-Files.

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