Video: Don't Let Your 6-Year-Old Gyrate In Revealing Outfits At Fashion Week

TLC's hit documentary on ridiculously bad parenting, Toddlers and Tiaras, took the leap from the small screen to Fashion Week yesterday. Former Real Housewives of New York person Kelly Bensimon hosted the “Cowgirl Riders Debutante Fashion Show” for a bunch of too-innocent-to-understand-how-terrible-their-parents-are six-year-olds in the basement of the Bryant Park Hotel. The headliner of the show was Eden Wood, the breakout star of the TLC freakshow who left the program to pursue other equally-sad opportunities. Watch some totally age-appropriate video of her slapping her butt at the event below!

Bensimon defended the Wood's pageantry after the show to The Daily Beast, who called it "the best fashion show of the week:" “That wasn’t stripping. That was just her having a little fun, girly moment." Not that she would necessarily let her kids shake their tutus: “I didn’t want to push my kids into something they didn’t feel good about. But these kids were feeling good about it. And they walked away happy."

We can't believe that the Post, not always the most objective newspaper, are the only ones who seem to have a problem with the show, describing it as: "Tarted-up little girls gyrate onstage in bizarro fashion show." But hey, if dressing up your pre-pre-tween as a prostitute is riveting TV by THE LEARNING CHANNEL'S standards, when will Sesame Street start doing segments on "Virgin" bikini waxes?

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By Ben Yakas in Arts & Entertainment on September 16, 2011 10:44 AM

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CraigsRealTv

The person that wrote this article was GREAT!

Very Funny and SPOT On... And I quote...

"if dressing up your pre-pre-tween as a prostitute is riveting TV by THE LEARNING CHANNEL'S standards, when will Sesame Street start doing segments on "Virgin" bikini waxes?"

P.S... This little girl looks EXACTLY like ALL the STRIPPERS I have seen dancing in clubs for decades... ONLY difference is... SHE has 12 more years until this act of hers goes LEGIT!

What has become of this country?

Sincerely,

Craig Amabello... Demented Reporter of Life... X-Hollywood Reject... And PORN DIrector.

TheRealCannibal

!!

Alex Trust

what the fuc america?

izzy isou

This country seems to be obsessed with two things: 1) pedophiles, and 2) fetishizing young people into sexual objects.

thePinkSuperhero

The people in the background during her performances look SO uncomfortable.

Amanda Trapani

I'm pretty sure this counts as kiddie porn

ishtar_79

I'm sorry, but you have to be a total perv to see anything remotely sexual in these clips. I was expecting to see these girls twirling on poles in platform heels.

sketto

Hard to decide which would cause me to run away screaming first - the fetishizing of 6-year-olds or that sickening music.

robingee

Gotta get 'em on the pole early. Makin' that ca$h!

9illy

I don't know, I think the slipper boots are pretty cute with the tutu and lace stockings.

Guest

I need a license for my dog, but any old dickhead can have a kid, it seems.

Caffiend

Even with the Chipmunk soundtrack, and even though I'm watching it at work with everyone around me, including H=a friend from HR, why do I get the feeling that I'm going to jail for watching this?