News · moment 10 of 21
Reborn Dolls: The $8,000 Fake Babies
from Trump’s Battle Royale, Reborn Babies, & A Labubu Economy | The Tim Dillon Show #457 · #457
4 min
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Tim reads a Wall Street Journal article about adults buying lifelike "reborn" baby dolls, walking them around in strollers and treating them like real children, and finds the trend deeply creepy despite some therapeutic uses for grieving mothers.
- Tim introduces the trend of $8,000 lifelike reborn dolls
- Best case scenario is these dolls help women heal from postpartum trauma or child loss
- Tim reads the Wall Street Journal article describing Kelly Maple taking her reborn doll Naomi shopping at the mall
- Reborn dolls, which can cost up to $10,000 each, have exploded into a global phenomenon since the early 2000s
- Tim reacts to the detail about painters hand-painting delicate blue veins on the dolls' skin
- Tim expresses concern that adults walking around with fake babies in strollers feels like society is heading down a bad road
- Critics say the dolls are creepy, but collectors argue they provide therapeutic benefits for grief, PTSD, and certain conditions
- Britney Spears, who had a miscarriage, has been seen carrying a reborn doll, which Tim notes is good advertising for them
- Tim concludes that the entire reborn doll phenomenon is really weird