Courtney’s mom is the one in the back with the huge chin implant

If you heard that your 16 year-old daughter was communicating online with a 51 year-old man would you:
1. Unplug the Internet and contact the authorities
2. Forbid her from speaking to him and install software to monitor and/or block her from doing so?
3. Tell her to be careful and keep an eye on the situation or
4. Encourage her to pursue a romantic relationship with the creepy old dude older than her father, but perhaps able to help her burgeoning career as a singer/actress?

If you’re Courtney Stodden’s mom Krista Keller you would choose the fourth option and take it to another level, you’d encourage your daughter to marry the guy! Courtney’s mom, who will always be the same age as her son-in-law, told The Daily Beast that she told her daughter’s 51 year-old pursuer and now-husband, Doug Hutchison, that he didn’t have to wait until Courtney was 18 to get romantic with her and that he could go ahead and marry her when she was just 16. Someone was so anxious for an empty nest and some quick fame that they sold their daughter out.

Courtney and her now husband met online in January through a mutual friend who told her mother about Hutchison’s acting workshop in Los Angeles. They began to correspond about the entertainment business, but Hutchison had no idea Courtney was a minor until Keller called him to arrange her daughter’s trip to attend the class.

“It didn’t make me want to walk away, but it definitely was a struggle inside my heart at that point in time because I had already started falling for her,” Hutchison told ABC News in July. (Keller, who says she manages Hutchison, declined a request from The Daily Beast to interview him as well.)

The twice-divorced character actor continued to communicate with the teenager. In fact, the emails between them became more romantic and personal, says Keller, who says she monitored them.

“It was a very beautiful, loving, nonsexual type of turn,” Keller says. “It was very admirable on his end. Then he called to tell me they were falling for each other. I could really tell my daughter had the kind of love when you want to marry a man or be with a man. Even though she was just 16, I knew it was going to take a pretty big man to handle her because of her sexuality and because of the attention she gets.”

Hutchison said he’d wait until Courtney turned 18 to pursue a romantic relationship. But Keller had another idea. In 39 states, 16-year-olds are allowed to marry with the consent of a parent or guardian, and she would support such a union.

“I had felt and lived it and seen how it matured to love,” Keller says. “See, with Courtney, with the way she looks: how is she ever going to know if someone loves her for how she looks or for her heart? I wanted her to be with somebody—and she wanted to be with somebody—that loved her for her heart. So this was perfect for her! To have a long-distance relationship to where they could just communicate through words, there was no sexual anything, we knew he loved her for her heart.”

The couple, now dubbed “Dourtney” by Starcasm, got married on May 20 in a Las Vegas chapel and honeymooned at Chateau Marmont in Hollywood, where Courtney later bragged she was “aroused for 24 hours.” Keller understands that most people would not agree with the marriage, but says her daughter “didn’t need to take a poll before she made a decision on her life.” Maybe so, but things aren’t so rosy for her son-in-law; his mother has stopped talking to him, and his management team dropped him. (Keller and Courtney’s father, Alex Stodden, are still together, even though Keller has moved to Los Angeles to oversee Courtney’s career.)

“These people that say, ‘You could have waited,’ I really don’t understand this way of thinking,” says Keller, who is the same age as her son-in-law. “Why do parents think that kids need to have those teen years spent going out with different boys, going out in different cars, going out on the beach together alone? There’s a lot of bad stuff that happens in those teen years. They end up being killed in car crashes due to driving with people that have been drinking. Oh, but they’re gonna have their teen years. My daughter is safe. I know where my daughter is.”

[From The Daily Beast]

There’s a lot more to that article, and you can read it at the source if you’re interested. The thing about this girl is that “the way she looks,” as her mother phrases it, is entirely due to Krista, her mother. The article called Krista Courtney’s “publicist/manager/hairstylist/makeup artist,” so it’s her mother that is dressing Courtney, putting in her hair extensions and shoveling that drag queen makeup on her, not Courtney.

Oh and if you want to see what Courtney and Doug looked like for Halloween, go here. Courtney was herself, and Doug dressed up as Courtney. For once I’m really glad we don’t have access to photos.

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