Courtney Stodden shares a powerful Instagram post modeling a moss green bra top and leggings, her blonde hair flowing down, as she addresses women’s rights during Women’s History Month.
Empowering Message on Survival and Resistance
The 31-year-old model, singer, media personality, and reality TV star urges fans to stay strong against repression. She writes, ‘They tried to turn us into something small. Something quiet. Something owned. But women have always been fighters.’
Stodden continues, ‘Before we had voices, we whispered. Before we had rights, we resisted. Before we had protection, we protected each other.’ She dedicates the post to ‘every woman who survived what was meant to break her. Every girl who was forced to grow up too fast. Every survivor of abuse. Every child bride who deserved a childhood instead of a contract.’
Highlighting ongoing struggles, she states, ‘We come from women who fought so little girls wouldn’t be treated like property. We come from women who demanded laws change so our bodies would belong to us. And we are STILL fighting. I am not a product. I am not a possession. I am not a story for someone else to control. I am a woman who lived through it and chose to rise anyway.’
She concludes, ‘To every woman reading this: your survival is power, your voice is revolution, your existence is resistance. And we are not done yet.’ Crystal Harris, model and Hugh Hefner’s third wife, liked the post.
Background on Stodden’s Early Marriage
In 2011, Stodden married 51-year-old actor Doug Hutchison at age 16, sparking international controversy. The couple divorced, remarried when she was 19, and divorced again. Now married to film producer Jared Safier, Stodden has appeared on the British version of Celebrity Big Brother in 2013 and stars in the biopic The Courtney Stodden Story.
Tribute to Marilyn Monroe
The day before, Stodden posted in a black bra, reflecting on Women’s History Month and Marilyn Monroe. She notes, ‘Before the image… there was a girl. They turned her into a symbol. Blonde. Beautiful. Broken.’
Stodden draws parallels, stating Monroe married at 16 and grew up in a system that profited from her. ‘She was used even in death. Those photos that helped build an empire? She wasn’t paid for them.’ Monroe, she adds, was ‘waking up’ and questioning her life before tragedy struck.
Stodden connects personally: ‘I don’t just see her. I recognize her. Because I was a child too. Because I know what it feels like to have your image turned into something that was never yours to begin with.’ She references women like Anna Nicole Smith, emphasizing, ‘We were never the joke. We were the warning… But we are still here. And this time we are telling our own story.’
Women’s History Month, observed annually in March, celebrates women’s contributions to history and society.
