This topless Ariel kid’s swimsuit has parents ‘absolutely mortified’

If you're like me, when you were a kid, you wanted to grow up to be a mermaid just like Ariel.

Amazing hair? Fish for friends? Cool shell bra? What's not to love, right?

And while most of us had "Little Mermaid" merch as kids, none of us had this scandalous Ariel swimsuit that has parents losing their minds.

When Chelsee Mosson was shopping at UK grocery chain Asda, she noticed this children's swimsuit had a TOPLESS ARIEL on it.

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Chelsee Mosson

And Mosson was SHOOK — especially because the one-piece was for toddlers. "Absolutely mortified to see this on Asda's shelf this evening," she said in a since-deleted tweet. "A 3-4 year old[s] swimming costume. What's going on?"

 "Me and my partner were quite shocked about it," she later told the Tamworth Herald.

Even more mysteriously, Ariel *has* her bra in the swimsuit available on the Asda website.

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The bikini top appears to be made of a slightly flocked material that was to be individually sewn onto the swimsuit, but wasn't, leaving Ariel's blank chest visible. "We both said if the design was to have a bikini top sewed on to it, it should have had a bikini top printed on too just in case something like this happened," Chelsee told The Mirror.

To its credit, Asda immediately pulled the swimsuit because of the "manufacturing error."

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“We’re sorry for the printing error on the Little Mermaid swimsuit, which was caused during the production process," an ASDA representative said. 

"It only affected a very small number of the swimsuits which were available from George, but we’d like to reassure our customers that we have removed all stock from sale and will ensure this doesn’t happen again.”

While there's nothing wrong with #freeingthenipple, the issue is that this was a swimsuit made for children. Parents have to worry about a lot — topless Disney princesses on their kids' bathing suits shouldn't be one of them.

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Additionally, maybe this is a sign that it's time for Ariel's seashell bra to get a redesign. She's been wearing THE SAME STRAPLESS BRA since 1989. Maybe give her a purple halter? A sports bra? Maybe even a purple tankini?

Options. The girl just needs options.