Courtney Stodden claimed the jokes CNN's Anderson Cooper made about her back in 2011 were equivalent to "bullying a child." Cooper made jokes about the model during one of his segments after Stodden, who identifies as non-binary and uses pronouns they/them, married Doug Hutchison when she was only 16 years old.
Hutchison was 51 years old at the time. "Being mocked by Anderson Cooper night after night on CNN's 'Ridiculist' only furthered the mockery that was made of a child trapped inside an abusive situation," Stodden told Insider in an interview published Thursday. "The effects of adults bullying a child lasts longer than a decade.