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Kiddie pageant princess Eden Wood is hanging up her crown.

The prize-winning pre-schooler — featured on last night’s season premiere of TLC’s “Toddlers & Tiaras” — is taking a break from competitions to concentrate on a recording career, live tour and a new reality show, her mother says.

“She is too big for pageants now,” Mickie Wood told The Post. “We are not planning on doing any more. She is all about performing, but it is not about the hair and makeup and the big dresses anymore.

“We are looking at the music industry and [at] Hollywood.”

The 6-year-old’s career move comes two weeks after a series of threatening messages wasposted on her official Facebook page.

The notes — one directing her agent to “go shoot yourself now” — are believed to have come from Australia, where Eden will make an appearance in July.

“She’s been getting a lot of e-mails about, ‘We don’t want your type of American trash here,’ ” says Annette Hill, director of the Universal Royalty Beauty Pageant in Plano, Texas, where Eden has won three of her almost 300 crowns.

Kids’ pageants have long been under fire from critics who believe participants are being pushed into the spotlight or exploited by their parents.

“I get so fed up hearing that,” Wood says. “These are people that don’t know my child. If Eden doesn’t want to do something, she will let you know it. That is why I think we are probably saying goodbye to pageants.”

Since her first competi tion, when she was 18 months old, Eden has become the Tiger Woods of the uber- competitive world of chil dren’s beauty pageants.

“She is so far beyond being just a pageant su perstar,” Hill says. “She is America’s sweetheart. Just like everybody knows who Justin Bieber is, everybody is going to know Eden Wood.”

The pint-sized blonde — whose mom is a teacher and dad runs the family farm in Taylor, Ark. — has released a book (“From Cradle to Crown”), a debut single (“Cutie Patootie”) and even a “Vegas Showgirl” action figure.

This weekend, Eden kicks off an eight city tour of US coffee houses and shopping malls.

Footage of the performances will likely be used for a new reality project her family is shopping called “Eden Wood Goes Hollywood.”

And, Wood says, Eden owes much of her success to “Toddlers & Tiaras.”

“It has catapulted her into so many different things,” she says. “If it had not been for the show, we would have had to audition for ‘America’s Got Talent!’ “