Bizarro: Reborn Babies

Let me just state for the record that dolls and clowns scare the willies out of me and that I think I've finally come to the conclusion that I need to really.. REALLY.. try to sleep at 3am instead of watching BBC America documentaries.

Is it me or does all of England suffer from one type of mental disorder or another? Because so far, I've seen men who have "plastic" girlfriends .. one guy even had multiple ones and he would stage cat fights. Sweet. Really? No.

There's been adult men who get off wearing diapers and being treated like a baby .. too warped to even think about.

And now, Reborn Babies.

Ok, so this isn't strictly a Brit thing but still.

So Reborns are baby dolls. LIFE like baby dolls. TOO life like if you ask me ( and some of the husband's that appeared in the documentary ) .. Some breath.. some have heart beats.. some move.. some wimp.

They have the skin texture and weight and mobility that real babies have. You can design your own, choosing hair color and texture.. moles.. birth marks.. whatever.

It's like Build-A-Bear only a lot more expensive.

Here's the thing.. if you were a doll collector, that's one thing but the women featured in this documentary (including one of the "artists" they featured) have all been talking a pull off of Miley's bong.

One woman, who doesn't want to have biological children because it would intrude on her "too fun" marriage, thinks nothing of walking her reborns in a stroller.. taking them to the park.. and dropping 300 bucks on a Roberto Cavelli outfit before jumping a plane to the states to pick up her latest one. She tries to make you believe that she KNOWS they're not real.. and she just enjoys them because she really doesn't want to deal with real babies and their dirty diapers. But all that goes out the window when the newest doll arrives in her hotel room and she realizes that it's damaged after "bonding" with it. The doll isn't perfect so off it went with this woman practically having a meltdown. She was there with her mother, who just looked on like this was perfectly normal.

Um. Okkkaayyyy.

Then there's the grandmother obsessing about her grandson. Through out the whole entire episode, she's going on and on about him and you're lead to believe that he's dead. It isn't until she custom orders her reborn to look just like her grandson.. picks it up.. proudly shows it to her husband who does NOT have the reaction she wanted that you find out that the real kid isn't dead.. he's off living in New Zealand with his mother and her new husband.

Even the artist admits that she started making the dolls because after her 4th child, she couldn't have anymore.

She bought the first one under the guise that it was for her daughter and was so disappointed that the reborn did not look as real as it did in the picture that she started making her own.

I'm sorry. I know that there should be a certain amount of empathy that one should have when dealing with the mentally challenged but I just can't do it.

If your wondering, the pictures on this post are ALL reborn baby dolls and not the real things.

Just one other question..

When the HELL is Dr. Who coming back on??