Collectors have many reasons for buying the dolls, such as grieving after pregnancy loss or enjoying adult play, experts say "Culture is incredibly uncomfortable with grief and sadness and pain," Dr.

When Lexi Friberg saw her baby for the first time, it was love at first sight. “The eyes, glowing and without a pupil, really captured that vacant, infected feel for me. But the happy, smiling face ...

"You see a doll, I see a baby that I never got to hold,” a woman said after receiving criticism for having a reborn doll Laura Ise; Coly Trigg/TikTok Lifelike dolls, known as reborn dolls, have been ...

Two dozen lifelike babies lie nestled in a nursery in Traci Knoppe's home in Missouri. Except the cribs and bassinets aren't holding real babies. They're dolls. Jaime Beebe began bringing her dolls to ...

A woman who describes herself as a "mum to 250 babies" has a vast and rapidly growing collection of reborn dolls. Sylvia Heszterterenyiova, 51, from Sydney, Australia, says she has a 'special bond' ...

Reborn baby dolls: Creepy, odd or just plain weird? OK, plenty of people think they're cute. Check out this TODAY story on the trend of amazingly lifelike baby dolls that some women are fond of ...

"You see a doll, I see a baby that I never got to hold,” a woman said after receiving criticism for having a reborn doll Lifelike dolls, known as reborn dolls, have been popular for two decades and ...

Parents grieving the loss of a child is an all too common yet devastating part of life. Reborn dolls, dolls that are completely transformed by an artist to resemble a human baby, are being used to ...

While her body was still healing, Christina tells PEOPLE she initially wanted nothing to do with her reborn dolls Christina Keeler Christina Keeler is opening up about finding comfort in her reborn ...

A mother has revealed she's spent $21,000 (£15,700) collecting over 20 Reborn Dolls. Mary Lee Beatson, 42, from South Carolina, parents and takes care of the lifelike creations, that aim to mimic the ...

While her body was still healing, Christina tells PEOPLE she initially wanted nothing to do with her reborn dolls Christina Keeler is opening up about finding comfort in her reborn dolls after ...