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.

Reborn baby dolls: Creepy, odd or just plain weird?OK, plenty of people think they're cute. Check out this TODAY story on the trend of amazingly lifelike baby dolls that some women are fond of ...

Reborn doll fans are not alone, the forums suggest, and what they’re doing isn’t that weird. Advertisement California-based reborn doll artist Stephanie Ortiz learned about reborns in 2011.

A startlingly hyper-realistic reborn baby doll lies in an incubator at a store in Campinas, Brazil. AP A group of women gather in a park with their hyper-realistic “reborn” dolls in Sao Paulo ...

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 ...

Baby George has a perfect mix of his parents’ looks that makes him a real work of art. And that is exactly what he is – a “reborn baby ” doll designed to give Crystal and Terry Duke the ...

Courtney Stodden got a “reborn” baby doll to help her cope with her heartbreaking miscarriage, and it is has made a big difference, she tells Us Weekly exclusively. Related: PHOTOS: Celebrity ...

Teenager's 'reborn' baby dolls offer lifeline to grieving parents and Alzheimer's patients Jessica Henry, who crafts the dolls, said: "I'm not crazy and 99% of the women in this community aren't ...