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 ...

It’s a sanctuary where people from all over the world make pregnancy announcements, trade advice on infant feeding and share ultrasound photos. Some meet for in-person playdates and mail each other ...

Kiersten is a mother not to human children but to dolls—specifically “reborn” dolls, a specialized class of hyperrealistic faux babies that inspire spooked curiosity in casual observers and fanatical ...

"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 ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — Reborn dolls have been around for several decades among adult collectors as well as kids they remain popular, but when the sale of newborn dolls hit the internet market, ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Design by Caroline Guenther. I played with baby dolls until what would probably be considered “too ...

SINGAPORE: Do you sleep well at night? Aren’t you ever afraid that your dolls might haunt you? These were among the questions Andrea Lee’s friend asked when visiting her home. Lee tries to take such ...

There are many things people do to prepare themselves to become parents, and this couple took an approach that’s a little more untraditional. Jess Ellis, 27, and her fiancé, Avery Raassen, 33, are ...

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 ...

A subculture of lifelike baby dolls is thriving on social media – despite enthusiasts being dismissed as grown women playing mommy I’m not sure what I expected a collector of hyper-realistic baby ...