Brazil's "reborn baby" phenomenon has drawn international attention. The trend of ultra-realistic dolls, which has been rapidly growing in the country, even made headlines in The New York Times.

Influencers have staged situations such as birth simulations and strolls in shopping malls with the hand-crafted baby figures, known as “reborn” dolls, creating videos that have gone viral.

Brazilian shopkeeper Alana Generoso put on a diaper on a reborn baby doll at her store. In Brazil, hyper-realistic baby dolls, known as reborn dolls, have ignited fascination and political debate.

The popularity of these dolls is such that city councilors in Rio de Janeiro have approved “Reborn Stork Day” on May 7. If the bill is given the green light by Mayor Eduardo Paes, the date ...

When Paula's husband died, she found comfort in a reborn doll made to look like him. These lifelike baby dolls have been shown to help with grief, loss, dementia and neurodivergence — but could ...

But she wasn’t a real baby. She was a reborn doll made of vinyl. “I’d heard about reborns before and seen them in magazines. I’d never seen one in real life. Yet now I had my very own!

The U.S. District Court for the District of Utah denied a motion for default judgment filed by Utah-based Bountiful Baby, a maker of kits for creating “reborn dolls,” against two Chinese ...

However, I had the magic of the internet, where I could covertly maintain my interest in dolls through the discovery of the Reborn doll community on YouTube. A more insidious genre of criticism for ...

A NEW York woman has admitted to breastfeeding her reborn dolls — despite stares when she brings them out in public. Though she felt embarrassed at first, she now does it proudly and doesn't ...

Lee tries to take such questions as a compliment. After all, the more lifelike her dolls appear, the more it affirms her skills as a reborn-doll artist. The 50-year-old meticulously paints doll ...

Mama Coly is the CEO of a business named DreamShyre, which creates lifelike silicone dolls. In an exclusive interview with PEOPLE, Coly spoke about learning the ropes of doll-making at a young age.