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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

Posted on 07/24/2025 7:01:29 AM PDT by BenLurkin

“You see a doll, I see a baby that I never got to hold,” a woman says in a TikTok video while cradling a lifelike doll — known as a reborn doll — that has the chubby cheeks and sparse, blonde hair of a newborn.

Another woman, Christina Keeler, who is married with two daughters, has a social media channel called “The Reborn Family,” with 38,000 subscribers. She gets thousands of views for videos in which she takes out the dolls in public outings.

"I was never able to talk about our pregnancy loss until I found reborns," Keeler, who had a pregnancy loss nine years ago before her daughters arrived, tells PEOPLE exclusively of buying her first doll. "It has been very therapeutic for me."

The women are part of a niche community of people that collect reborn dolls – some of which can cost up to $5,000.

Dr. Jessica Zucker, a psychologist specializing in reproductive and maternal mental health, has talked with women who have navigated pregnancy loss with the help of such dolls.

She says that women may find “newfound comfort” by having the doll to “cuddle with, to care for, to bring into public.” The weight of the doll can also be therapeutic.

While Zucker is not an expert in doll therapy, she says that reborn dolls can serve as a sort of “buffer” for women, so they can navigate their grief after having a miscarriage or stillbirth.

(Excerpt) Read more at yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: doll; pregnancyloss
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1 posted on 07/24/2025 7:01:29 AM PDT by BenLurkin
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To: BenLurkin

Bizarre.


2 posted on 07/24/2025 7:02:59 AM PDT by Bigg Red ( Lord, make me an instrument of your peace.)
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To: BenLurkin

How many are single women who can’t have another child, or wont get married to a man?


3 posted on 07/24/2025 7:06:40 AM PDT by Bayard
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To: Bigg Red

That’s one word.


4 posted on 07/24/2025 7:07:59 AM PDT by Frank Drebin (And don't ever let me catch you guys in America!)
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To: Bigg Red

Not as bizarre as a sex doll for guys.


5 posted on 07/24/2025 7:08:17 AM PDT by SkyDancer ( ~ Am Yisrael Chai ~)
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To: BenLurkin

M. Night Shyamalan did a movie called “Servant” (on Apple TV, I think) where Dorothy (Lauren Ambrose) and Sean Turner (Toby Kebbell)’s son dies at thirteen weeks old, they “adopt” a lifelike doll and the movie tells the creepy story of Dorothy going back to work after maternity leave, and hiring Leanne (Nell Tiger Lee), a religious girl of mysterious origin, to care for their surrogate son.

I watched about 15 minutes, and said “Nope.” Not watching anymore. Too weird.


6 posted on 07/24/2025 7:14:25 AM PDT by rlmorel (Factio Communistica Sinensis Delenda Est.)
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To: BenLurkin

As with the transtesticles, I refuse to participate in the mental illness of other.


7 posted on 07/24/2025 7:15:54 AM PDT by ConservaTexan (February 6, 1911/June 14, 1944)
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To: BenLurkin

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


8 posted on 07/24/2025 7:16:06 AM PDT by Jonty30 (French doors are called French doors because you walk like a Frenchmen when you open them. )
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To: BenLurkin

Don’t these ladies normally just adopt cats?


9 posted on 07/24/2025 7:16:48 AM PDT by dinodino ( Shut it down anyway. )
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To: BenLurkin

I can’t opine on this because I have no idea what it is like to lose a newborn.

Tik Tok has videos of mothers holding these dolls because they lost a newborn.

But to put it in a different context my mother lost a child that she had held as a newborn and raised for many years. If someone had offered her a lifesize dummy version I think she might have flipped out.

Seems to me that it has potential to make things a lot worse but ..whatever


10 posted on 07/24/2025 7:17:32 AM PDT by RummyChick
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To: BenLurkin

Soon Planned Parenthood will be offering such dolls after the abortion for a hefty price.


11 posted on 07/24/2025 7:19:04 AM PDT by allendale
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To: SkyDancer
Not as bizarre as a sex doll for guys.

What's bizarre with that? uh. asking for a friend...

12 posted on 07/24/2025 7:19:37 AM PDT by null and void (Democrats: fake news, fake presidents, fake beliefs, fake policies, fake protesters & fake voters!)
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To: null and void

Well just answering regarding those fake babies.


13 posted on 07/24/2025 7:23:05 AM PDT by SkyDancer ( ~ Am Yisrael Chai ~)
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To: BenLurkin

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.


14 posted on 07/24/2025 7:23:28 AM PDT by Sir Bangaz Cracka (Poor 'lil Travon bees slamming dat white cracka'a head into dat sidewalk causin he be scared)
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To: BenLurkin

Women with doll collections is not new. It’s been going on forever. Just another outlet for frustated maternal impulses.

It’s also an outlet for creative sewing and clothesmaking.


15 posted on 07/24/2025 7:25:17 AM PDT by Valpal1 (Not even the police are safe from the police!!!)
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To: BenLurkin

Don’t knock it. They come in handy when you put them in the passenger baby high seat while you’re breaking speed records in the HOV lane


16 posted on 07/24/2025 7:26:23 AM PDT by chuckee
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To: BenLurkin

Wait, I think I saw this episode on Black Mirror.


17 posted on 07/24/2025 7:31:57 AM PDT by woodbutcher1963
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To: SkyDancer

};^P>


18 posted on 07/24/2025 7:44:03 AM PDT by null and void (Democrats: fake news, fake presidents, fake beliefs, fake policies, fake protesters & fake voters!)
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To: dinodino

Sometimes a “fur baby” simply isn’t enough.


19 posted on 07/24/2025 7:44:15 AM PDT by Blurb2350 (posted from my 1500-watt blow dryer)
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To: BenLurkin

I wouldn’t make fun of someone who finds this helps them cope with a loss. And I remember loving dolls as a child and a newborn doll would have been a great addition to my collection, which is still in the attic. 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.

Dollmaking is an art, as I learned from a best friend’s mother. I used to teach my friends to make music videos of their lives.

Tricia’s Mother - Oh You Beautiful Doll - By Tricia
https://youtu.be/gEq65zSCrKw


20 posted on 07/24/2025 7:49:01 AM PDT by mairdie
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