Ok, I think normal babies are pretty creepy, but at least they will one day grow out it-well, most of them will grow out of it. Several years ago my sister was into these bizzaro world dolls that were made to look as close to real as possible and cost in the area of four or five hundred dollars. They had real hair, which you could style yourself, and they all had this kind of Village of The Damned look to them.
Reborn Babies take the doll idea to the next logical level and make babies that look hyper real. The idea here is that a creepy baby will continue to look creepy forever. Of course, women tend to feel different about babies in general and like things like this. There is a reason that god awful photos by Anne Geddings were so popular-it wasn’t men buying calendars of dead babies lying on top of pumpkins.
My Fake Baby is the story of these state of the art designer dolls-the perfect baby. Just as you didn’t ‘buy’ Cabbage Patch Kids, you don’t ‘buy’ Reborn Babies, you adopt them. I guess having a life like doll is better than heading for the hospital and stealing a real baby. I find it just plain creepy. Of course, I used to collect Comic Books and spend a lot of time flipping through them and wonder how much they are worth. But then I grew up and moved away from my comics. I sold them to my Brother-In-Law who have never moved past that phase of his life. So why not have dolls? I guess there is no reason not collect reborn babies.
Maybe it’s just that I’m a portrait photographer and see way too any babies for my own taste as it is. I am clearly in the minority here, the reborn babies cost $1000 dollar a pop and the makers have sold everyone they have made. Well, I guess it take all kinds.
Oh my, they are adorable to admire. However, I do not find myself interested in owning one.
I tend to think they are an acquired taste.
I am a woman and I think they’re creepy.