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'Toddlers and Tiaras' under fire

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    Pageant tot hits stage with cigarette

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A kiddie beauty pageant performance is stirring up controversy after a four year old stunned the audience by strutting.

On stage with teased hair a leather jacket and a cigarette.

I mean.

It's yeah.

All right let's don't Islam to the states contestant number 27.

A big round of applause -- down.

-- -- -- -- -- -- The bigger.

-- does she think you.

You can see parents that are outrageous since joining us that way in his Fox News medical -- teams doctor -- Al -- -- doctor -- Hey good morning else all right here's the back story so the mother says it it was a fake cigarettes and she was just using it as a prop.

To look cool like sandy in Greece is that okay did.

It's not even close to okay.

And it shows the failings of her as a parent because those and we went -- that you have your kids at home.

Playing with a bottle of Scotch instead it wasn't Scotch and there was apple juice and it was it was shot glass.

That was really a shot.

That was just DF soldiers they look the bottom line is kids learn by example this is bad for this child this four year old but it's bad for our children.

Who learned to model their behavior in part by what they watch and this is inappropriate.

The worst of it is that what they're watching is a mother who must black self esteem.

Using her child like a pocket and dehumanizing her child because she wants to drug -- -- With applause but that -- kids -- -- -- -- here really is the danger will miss four year old ever even remember this.

Well the for a number one -- their four year -- remember plenty of things but the notion that you get applauded for smoking.

And for looking sexy.

Because this is a show toddlers and chairs that has had kids dressed as prostitutes.

Kids dressed with.

Fall series to look like adult women.

And so the bottom line is yes they remember not only the fact that they were applauded in this case for smoking early on but that they were object defied.

These little girls they don't understand why some people in the audience would be looking at them with confusion.

Confused whether they're adults or children.

Whether they ought to be the object of some kind of prurient interest or not because listen there are some people.

Everywhere there are people who aren't actually able to just confine their -- to adult that's awful right.

In terms of sexual and dress but it's the truth and we should be careful not to stoke those flames.

While daughter -- -- -- desperate to get your perspective particularly when you're in a split screen -- children wearing big huge diapers to do enhance their bodies.

Show should be off the -- thanks Al you got -- who we heard you and that is a good platform thanks softer outlook -- them.

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