‘Cutie Patootie’: Toya Wright’s 1-Year-Old Daughter Leaves Fans Smitten by Her Doll Looks

Toya Wright‘s toddler daughter Reign Rushing is a star all on her own.

The 1-year-old stole the spotlight this weekend with her golden smile and adorable looks. Wright took to Instagram on Sunday and uploaded a several photos of baby Reign playing outside with her baby doll. The first image showed the toddler smiling big for the camera, while the other showed her seemingly attempting to put on a pair of sunglasses.

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Toya Wright’s 1-year-old daughter Reign Rushing. (Photo: @toyawright/Instagram)

Wright dressed her daughter in a pink and white Burberry dress, white sneakers and a gold chain that read “Reign.” Her hair was put in braids and two puffs. The mother of two wrote in her post, “Happy Sunday from my little @reign_beaux 💕” and received over 281,000 likes.

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Toya Wright’s 1-year-old daughter Reign Rushing. @toyawright/Instagram

Fans instantly fawned over the Wright’s images of baby Reign.

“I ❤️ her eyebrows!! My son has nice thick brows too! She is such a cutie patootie!!

“Reign is really growning!! She is sooo adorably cute 😍 what a doll baby!”

“OMG. So darn adorable she’s growing fast 💕 she so freakin adorable Toya 🥰 #growingsofast #icanttakeit #beautifulreigny”

“😍 I just Love Reign she stay ready to keep from getting ready 😍 👌🏾 when it’s camera time 🙌🏿”

The toddler’s big sister Reginae Carter also gushed over little sister and wrote via her Instagram story, “My baby 😫”

Reginae Carter
Reginae Carter, Reign Rushing and Toya Wright. (Photo: @colormenae/Instagram)

The 36-year-old mother of two welcomed baby Reign into the world in February 2018 with her companion Robert Rushing. She’s been very vocal about protecting her children, especially when it comes to internet trolls.

“I honestly don’t pay attention to the haters,” she told Cosmopolitan in a December 2017 interview, a few months before the birth of Reign. “UNLESS, someone says something about my daughter, and then Mama Bear kicks in. I don’t care what people say about me, but kids are off limits.”

Earlier this year, Wright gave people a piece of her mind after reading a mass of negative comments from detractors attacking baby Reign’s appearance.

“How can you talk about an innocent baby?” she wrote along with a photo of the 1-year-old. “Who the f–k raised y’all stupid asses? With that being said….F–k ANYbody that has ANYthing negative to say about my daughters.”

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