KIERSTEN Haley, 28, lives in California, USA, with husband Ethan, 29, who works in the military. She speaks about how she is a doting “mother” to her 32 reborn dolls. “Pointing at my baby ...

Her Heavenly Touch Reborn Nursery in Independence, Mo., smells like a nursery, sweet and fresh like baby powder. A giant plastic baby bottle stands in one corner, and there are racks of baby clothes.

When I clicked through a New York Times slide show of Rebecca Martinez’s arresting photographs of the “Reborn” subculture—a group of mostly women who collect or create and “care for ...

KIERSTEN Haley, 28, lives in California, USA, with husband Ethan, 29, who works in the military. She speaks about how she is a doting “mother” to her 32 reborn dolls. “Pointing at my baby ...