Reborn dolls, or hyper-realistic dolls, have carved out a unique niche in both art and therapeutic circles in Brazil. "I started this for children, but it was something that everyone loved, children, ...

Parents grieving the loss of a child, miscarriage or stillbirth is an all too common yet devastating part of life. It’s a pain that is incredibly difficult to stem but there are ways that the ...

“Everything looks very real: (The doll’s) face is rosy, her skin looks like a real baby’s, and her nails.” Jessica Wu with her reborn doll, Lillie, which she bought from Lee. Lee ...

"Then they're weighted like a real baby. So when you're holding them, you get that – it's like that maternal instinct. And for me, that was comforting." A sculptor molds the doll with clay.

A woman is freaking people out with her silicone baby dolls that are so life-like they leave some questioning whether they are real babies. Cristina Jobs, 35, from Deltebre, Catalonia, is a ...

clay dolls — but once I found out silicone could feel so much like a real baby, it was over. I knew that’s what I wanted to do." Never miss a story — sign up for PEOPLE's free daily ...

Hall — an avid collector herself with more than 40 limited edition Disney princess dolls to her name — first stumbled across the realistic reborns on Etsy in 2008. Shocked by how life-like the ...

In the Reborning subculture, collectors “adopt” hyper-realistic ... for their dolls as if they were living infants, building nurseries and throwing birthday parties and baby showers.

Kelly said: “It was cool that they looked like a real baby. “It appeals that they look realistic.” Kelly keeps most of the dolls in cribs in the living room but has baby Adam and Jennifer in ...