Courtney Stodden says she is in her ‘Angelina Jolie phase’ after getting 1st tattoo as she posts old image of the Oscar winner with Billy Bob Thornton
Courtney Alexis Stodden, 29, the reality TV star who married as a teenager, posted photos of her new tattoo on Instagram this week.
She announced that she’s “in her Angelina Jolie phase now” when she shared an old photo of the Oscar-winning actress with her then-husband, Billy Bob Thornton, at the premiere of Gone In 60 Seconds in 2000.
Jolie has been called ‘the queen of body art’, with more than twenty known tattoos, including tattoos that cover most of her back.
Stodden’s tattoo reads “Courtney, I heart U – Jared,” with a drawing of a running rabbit.
It looks like Jared – Courtney’s new boyfriend Jared Safier – may have created the artwork himself.
The usually blonde Courtney appears as a brunette on the post and shows off a lot of cleavage in a small lavender tank top.
Courtney Stodden shows off her first tattoo, a tribute to the new man in her life, producer/director Jared Safier
Here the pin-up is seen last month with Safier in a park in Los Angeles
The new tattoo reads ‘Courtney I (heart) U – Jared’ with a running rabbit
Jared Safier is the new man in her life, according to a TMZ report.
He is the 41-year-old, four-time Emmy award-winning director/producer and CEO of Safier Entertainment.
He has more than 124 credits, mainly in television.
The couple has been together for about seven months now, TMZ reports, after meeting on a film set last August.
They kept their relationship out of the spotlight for most of that time, only telling a few close friends.
Courtney’s previous relationship, with entrepreneur Chris Sheng, lasted eight years and ended about a year ago.
In April 2021, Stodden publicly came out as non-binary and announced the decision to change her gender pronouns to they/them.
She later updated her pronouns to they/them in June 2022.
In her earlier life, the model/singer married 51-year-old Doug Hutchison in 2011, when she was just 16 years old.
Angelina Jolie and Billy Bob Thornton at the film premiere of her Gone In 60 Seconds in 2000
She got tattoos for her husband; she later went on to marry and divorce Brad Pitt
They separated in 2017 and finalized their divorce in 2020.
Courtney is perhaps best known for her role in Celebrity Big Brother, which first appeared in 2013 when she was just 19.
In January 2018, she appeared on season 21 of Celebrity Big Brother UK, ultimately winning the series with 49.43% of the final public vote.
She then went on to host The Bi Life, Britain’s first bisexual reality dating show on E! and her own television special, The Courtney Act Show.