‘I Can’t Stop Watching This’: Reginae Carter’s 1-Year-Old Sister Leaves Fans In Stitches After She Directs Her Photo Shoot

It looks like Reginae Carter‘s little sister Reign Rushing is stealing the hearts of fans with her big personality.

The nearly 2-year-old star left fans cracking up on Sunday after Carter shared a video of the infant conducting her very own photo shoot. Channeling her inner photographer, the toddler instructed her cousin on how to pose for the camera and take photos.

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Reign Rushing, 1, and her cousin Jashae. @colormenae/Instagram

In the clip, baby Reign can be heard yelling, “Pose!”to her cousin moments before handing off the camera phone. The toddler then ordered her cousin to take photos of her as she posed up a storm herself.

“My little sister is me asf ๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚, Carter said jokingly in an Instagram video apparently taken by their mother Toya Johnson. “Not her showing  @_theylovejashae_  how to pose ๐Ÿ˜ซ.”

The video of the toddler left folks in stitches.

“She is the cutest!” one fan wrote. “A great photographer in the making and no one can tell her nothing so adorable ๐Ÿ˜”

“No way,” another added. “๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚ r u serious. Wow. She’s just too smart. God B6kess her. Lol…. @colormenae I can’t stop watching this.”

A third fan commented, ” Reign got jokes ๐Ÿ˜‚ I can’t!!! Shes like hold up!!! Lean with it.. this gives me life!!! To smart and soo cute ๐Ÿ˜…๐Ÿ˜… ๐ŸŒˆ getting so big so cute and adorable smart baby.”

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(L) Reginae Carter, Toya Johnson and 1-year-old Reign Rushin. @toyajohnson/Instagram

Nearly two weeks ago around the Christmas holiday, the toddler stole the show again after posing for a gorgeous holiday pic with Carter and their mother. Johnson cradled baby Reign, who flashed a big smile, as big sister tried to tickle her.

Johnson cherished the moments with her two daughters and wrote, “Merry Christmas from me and my girls!”

Fans however couldn’t help but to gush over how adorable baby Reign was.

“I canโ€™t get enough of that lil one ๐Ÿ˜,” a supporter wrote at the time. “She is just so stinking cute! Look at her little grin.”

A second added, ” Merry Christmas to you and your family Toya. Reign look like sheโ€™s losing to a tickle fight ๐Ÿคฃ๐Ÿ˜ she is so adorbs.”

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