Why Some Women Pay Up to $5,000 for Life-Like, 'Reborn' Baby Dolls: Some Are Grieving, Others Think 'They're Cute'

yahoo ^ | 06/02/2025 | Sam Gillette

[Bon of Babble]

There’s something very creepy about this...

[maddog55]

right up there with the furries and adults dressing like and acting like babies.

Euthanasia seems appropriate since these morons have reached the end of the functioning brain.

[null and void]

While walking around Helen, Georgia, one day a couple years ago, we walked past a couple pushing a stroller with a doll in it. Something you don’t quickly forget.

In Mazatlán the Cora Indians would come down from the hills with a doll dressed as a baby to beg money from tourists.

[GingisK]

My x-wife still reads Trixie Beldon books.

[Opinionated Blowhard]

[9YearLurker]

Kind of like men who never give up the toys of their youth, IMO.

[Albion Wilde]

If you’re into dressing them up, it’s certainly easier on the family dog and cat if you’re dressing up a doll instead.

LOLs!!

[Ezekiel]

Who can judge those in dire need of Restoration and Redemption?

'Reborn' Baby Dolls

$5000??!! That's completely nutso.

Mine was <$20!

The order and details are so important.

Several years ago, I went in search of just the right doll for my outdoor Christmas manger display. When I found the perfect one for the job (i.e. vinyl only, articulated, blue eyes..), slight problem -- it was a "girl".

The facial features, however, were neutral, so...

A change of clothes to a blue "Mama's Boy" newborn onesie outfit, and Voila!

The real change effect concerns the hair, which is actually a cute design embossed into the vinyl. No hair but not bald, either.

I used two shades of orange Sharpies to trace and blend the lines and to soften the edges of the markings.

His hair is truly a work of art, even if I do say so myself.

And there you have it -- 'Reborn' Baby Doll, Ginger Jesus!

Accept no substitutes!

[Vaduz]

You can wager planed parenthood ain’t giving them away.

[Libloather]

“You see a doll, I see a baby that I never got to hold,”

Crazy cat lady. Run away.

[Buttons12]

Don’t these ladies normally just adopt cats?

There are also actual human beings who could benefit from such attention.

[Svartalfiar]

Any woman who does this is admitting a deep desire to be a mother.

The entire point of the dolls is to be a comfort for women with miscarriages or lost the baby for whatever reason.

[Jonty30]

Doesn’t that prove my point about it fulfilling a desire to be a mother?