Highly realistic baby dolls have become a global phenomenon, with collectors shelling out for luxury baby gear and doting on ...

Bountiful Baby, according to Steven, now conducts 3D scans of actual babies to create the pieces in its vinyl doll kits. Silicone dolls, which feel closer to real babies, are more expensive.

Mia Martone purchased a $6,000 reborn at the Dolls of the World fair. While she has grandchildren who visit, she said, ‘Sometimes I just want one that doesn’t cry.’ By Rory Satran Follow ...

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 ...

Why Some Women Pay Up to $5,000 for Life-Like, 'Reborn' Baby Dolls: Some Are Grieving, Others Think 'They're Cute' "You see a doll, I see a baby that I never got to hold,” a woman said after ...

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. Reborn baby dolls are hyper-realistic, ...

Lawmakers have brought the dolls into legislative chambers. Andrea Janaina holds her doll during a group gathering to bond and show off their “reborn” baby dolls, in a park in Sao Paulo. AP ...

Reborn dolls are super-realistic baby dolls, costing anywhere from $30 to upwards of $20,000, that offer comfort to a growing number of people experiencing grief or loss. Anadolu Agency / Getty Images ...

The average price is $500 to $800 for a higher-quality reborn doll. The most Beebe has spent is $1,600 on an individual doll. "The more realistic it looks, the more it's going to cost," Knoppe says.

Since reborn dolls were historically store-bought Berenguer baby dolls that artists painted by hand and weighted to their liking, I’m inclined to side with the pro-replica side but I digress.