Reborns: Cute or Creepy?
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The Inside Edition recently featured a reborn artist, who had seven miscarriages and decided to put her grief to good use by making reborns.
Reborns are basically dolls, factory made or specifically sculpted, which are transformed into lifelike baby dolls through painstakingly applied paints (blue tones for the veins are applied first and covered by flesh ones) and body parts (goat hair are sewn onto the head and the body is weighted down with materials like polyfill or beads to give the appropriate feel when held).
These dolls are usually made-to-order and no doll is alike. Some order one made to look like themselves when they were a baby, or to look like their child when their child was a baby. Some order to give as gifts to those who have lost a child or had a miscarriage. Some just order to add to their collection.
Since much effort is invested in these dolls to make them as lifelike as possible, people can mistake them for the real one… initially. And because they are made, they are always perfectly cute, complete with buntings and caps. They cost around $800 or more and take an average of two weeks to produce.
Personally, although I may find them cute, I’d really think it creepy for anyone to play with one. But that’s just me. I also don’t dig those candies that look like babies (or bread that looked like human body parts… but yes, you don’t eat reborns).
What about you, would you like to own one?
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MrsH says...
The answer is NO.
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