Baby Gaga, a three-year-old toddler who’s been burning up the Internet with a spoof on the video “Telephone” by Lady Gaga. The video featuring 3-year old Keira Ladrow in heavy makeup, dancing, while wearing handcuffs. Later surrounded by a group of scantily-clad women in bikini tops dancing behind her.
more of Baby Gaga’s Telephone video after the jump…
The video ends with the toddler in a dress on top of a bar. The question is: Is this appropriate?
Close to 5,000 YouTube subscribers have weighed in. The comments have been mixed. Some say, it’s the cutest thing ever, some say the child is being used for a parody.
This morning on “The Early Show” Tuesday, Keira’s mother, Heidi Ladrow, and Jake Wilson, the producer/director of the video, defended the video.
Heidi said she made the video because it suited her daughter’s personality.
“She’s three. She is very energetic, she’s very playful, and she’s outgoing,” Heidi said. “And Jake, the director here, he has known her since she was 6 months old, so she was very comfortable with him. And being in the industry, he decided let’s do a video, a spoof of Lady Gaga. So it was perfect because she’s so animated. And she’s a good little dancer, so it just seemed like a good fit.”
Psychotherapist Heidi Banks, a Huffington Post contributor thinks otherwise; Banks said the video could be potentially damaging to Keira later.
“I think we have as to look at the Britney Spears of the world,” she said. Banks told Heidi Ladrow, “I know you are a loving parent. I’ve spent a few minutes with both of you, and you work with children all the time. There’s no question about your love for your daughter. But we don’t always know the effects later on. When she sees this when she’s 15 or 16 or 17. Because children do do things to please their parents.”
She continued, “They may look like they’re have fun, but there’s a point where other parents can do this, and there will be copy cats. Look what happened around Britney Spears, which is where I started this discussion. When Britney went out there and did what they did like ‘Oops, I Did It Again,’ there were imitators all other than the world, little girls doing that. And now these little girls are older and they’re looking back going, ‘Oops, it’s on video. It’s been taped.’”
Banks wanted to issue a caution to other parents about these kinds of videos.
“There’s a lot of parents out there that want this attention, that want fame for their child, and they’re not coming the most authentic place. They’re looking for that living their life out in reality television. So the caution is err on the side of conservative.”
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