The first time Karolina Jonderko held a reborn doll, she was amazed at how lifelike it was. It not only looked like a newborn baby, but it felt like one, too. It was as heavy as a baby should be. She ...

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' ...

Women struggling with infertility have found a way to love and care for a little bundle of joy - a lifelike baby doll that can cost more than $20,000. These creations, called Reborn dolls, are ...

"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 ...

Artists are crafting incredibly lifelike monsters, and fans can’t get enough Artists are crafting incredibly lifelike monsters, and fans can’t get enough When Arend Smith first learned about the ...

Lainey Picton spends her spare time making "reborns", realistic life-sized dolls the same size and weight as human babies. But some of her creations have started to take on an alternative look thanks ...

Lena Kunz takes pictures of women and their babies. Her latest series, ‘Artificial Reality,’ captures stroller walks, late-night feedings, and endless diaper changes. The really good stuff is in there ...

One their children have grown up, most mothers have rose-tinted memories of the days when they held gurgling babies in their arms. But Carol Laing has taken the bizarre step of trying to recreate ...

In Poland, where fertility rates are among the lowest in the world, a group of women are taking control and becoming mothers to fake babies. Reborn dolls are hyper-realistic dummies, treated like real ...

An aspiring mum who owns 15 reborn dolls to “practise” parenting worries Kira Cousins’ fake baby scandal reinforces the idea doll owners are “crazy”. Jess Ellis, 29, started making and collecting the ...

In the Reborning subculture, collectors “adopt” hyper-realistic artificial babies–impeccably crafted from vinyl, glass, doe suede, and up to eighty layers of paint. The “parents” care for their dolls ...