By April MacIntyre Jan 27, 2012, 18:35 GMT
What's worse than TLC's "Toddlers & Tiaras"?
According to the New York Daily News, Barrett filed a $30 million libel lawsuit on Tuesday in Manhattan.
A stage toddler mom, Susanna Barrett, is allegedly suing TMZ.com over accusations the tabloid chatter show sexualized her daughter.
Barrett's gripe is that her 5-year-old Isabella was seen in a video singing LMFAO's "I'm Sexy and I Know It" at a night spot and was edited to look like something it was not.
Barrett is claiming that TMZ, The Huffington Post and the Daily Mail described the little girl's act as "gyrating in a nightclub and singing about her sex appeal" when in fact Isabella was sitting during the song.
"(Isabella) did not understand the concept of sex, let alone 'sex appeal' ... Isabella is now perceived sexually, erotically and pornographically, and (the stories) have placed Isabella in serious physical danger, attracting the attention of others who would seek to sexualize a child."
Not long after the video surfaced, Barrett defended Isabella's videotaped performance to TMZ. She explained that the little girl was at New York's Libation for a pet charity event and started singing when the DJ invited her up, but that they left at the reasonable hour of 9 p.m.
When answering the question on how a 5-year-old knows the lyrics to the LMFAO tune, "We just listen to the radio, and that's a real catchy song," she told TMZ at the time.
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