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Teen Bride Courtney Stodden and 51-Year-Old Husband Sexy Themselves Right Out of Pumpkin Patch

In the Santa Clarita Valley yesterday, a 17-year-old girl was kicked out of a pumpkin patch for dressing too provocatively and cavorting about in a sexual manner.
But this wasn't just any 17-year-old girl -- this was Courtney Stodden, the infamous "teenage bride," and the person with whom she was doing her cavorting was her 51-year-old husband, actor Doug Hutchison.
As evidenced in the above photo, Stodden was wearing teeny tiny Daisy Dukes, out of which her ass cheeks were hanging, a plaid shirt tied high up and unbuttoned so as to reveal her ample bosom, and straight up knee-high white pleather stripper boots.
In addition to her somewhat exaggerated pumpkin-picking ensemble, the Huffington Post reports that Stodden and Hutchison were making out, straddling one another (Stodden was doing most of the straddling) and essentially behaving like a couple of teenagers...oh, because one of them is a teenager. The other is eligible for an AARP membership.
The history on Stodden and Hutchison's relationship, in case you haven't been following, is that they got married back in May, when she was only 16, after her parents gave the union their blessing. Since then, the couple has received tons of ongoing publicity and have landed a reality show, and she continues to fascinate the world with her epicly sexual (and impressively alliterate) tweets.
After the pumpkin patch incident, Stodden, a self-proclaimed Christian, tweeted the following: "Have a beautifully blessed Sunday! :) "Do not judge by appearances, but judge with right judgment.” John 7:24".
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