Woman Sparks Internet Outrage Over Pole Dancing With Her Two-Year-Old Strapped To Her Back (Video+Photos)

A Southern California woman is being accused of child endangerment after a video of her engaging in an exotic pole dance, with a toddler strapped to her back, went viral.

Ashley Wright who continues to defend her right to pole dance with her two-year-old daughter strapped to her body, is under fire from critics who have accused her of 'endangering her child' after she released a new video of herself twirling around a silver bar in her underwear with her toddler secured to her back.  

According to Wright she got hooked on pole dancing after graduating college. To her, dance is an “organic” communication tool for expressing love with her daughter and, she insists, has nothing to do with attachment parenting, a philosophy that often involves extended breastfeeding and baby wearing. “I am an attachment parent — I am breastfeeding my 2-year-old daughter, we co-sleep, and I wear her in a sling.

It’s not the first time that Wright has had to take a public stance regarding her dance routine. A video of her pole dancing while six months pregnant with Shannon ignited similar concern despite Wright’s OB/GYN’s medical stamp of approval. And in February, after Wright posted a video of herself pole dancing in her living room with Shannon afoot, online commenters called the interaction “inappropriate” and an example of “bad parenting.” Wright even appeared on the CBS show “The Doctors” to defend her dancing.

I’ve been called names like ‘stripper’ and ‘bad parent’ and while I understand, remarks like these are sometimes from people who were taught to shame their bodies,” Wright, the 29-year-old single mother says  “People are mostly supportive, though, and say that I’m teaching my daughter how to love herself unconditionally.” 

In the latest video, Wright strapped her daughter in a six-yard-long wrap (with a technique she calls “double hammock with a chest pass and necktie”) to keep Shannon secure. “She’s not falling out in this thing,” she says. During rehearsals, Shannon slept blissfully on her mother’s back while the pair twirled, bent backward and forward, and climbed the pole. 

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