When people see Rosanna Eso shopping or grabbing a bite to eat, she always gets the same question: How old is your baby? The baby, however, is actually a doll – a very realistic-looking one – that the ...

Several years ago, Lisa Robertson created a Facebook support group to discuss the ups and downs of parenthood. It’s a sanctuary where people from all over the world make pregnancy announcements, trade ...

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- Stephanie Ortiz of Fresno and her wife Jackie create reborn dolls. They spend hours every day mixing colors, glazing, and coming up with different personalities for what will ...

Scrolling through TikTok lately, you’ve probably seen videos of disembodied hands squishing hyper-realistic silicone baby faces (or, um, pulling a tiny baby figure out of their mouths). Some folks ...

"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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Jacklyn Damm has two children but she’s made more than 50 babies. The Fairview resident creates ultrarealistic dolls and sells them for as much as $1,500 at craft and doll shows around the country, ...

Jess Ellis, 29, from Newham, London, owns 15 reborn dolls to “practise” parenting after struggling with PCOS. She says the dolls are calming, release similar maternal hormones, and help women coping ...