adult women fake babies

WASHINGTON - Many people like to stop and play with newborn babies, but now some adult women are playing house with fake babies.

Some women are even going as far as taking day trips with the fake babies to the park, out to eat, and even hosting birthday parties for them.

Forty-nine-year-old Linda is married with no children of her own. Now, she says she feels like a mother because she has Reborns -- dolls made to look and feel like the real thing.

"It's not a crazy habit, like, you know, drinking, or some sort of, something that's going to hurt you. It's like a hobby and it doesn't really hurt anybody," Linda said.

These women are paying big bucks for this hobby, from $100 to a few thousand dollars. For Reborn owner Lachelle Moore, the fake babies fill a void.

"What's so wonderful about Reborns is that, um, they're forever babies," said Moore, who has grown children and grandchildren. "There's no college tuition, no dirty diapers... just the good part of motherhood," she added.

In her Kansas City home, Moore even has an elaborate room for the dolls. She organizes birthday parties, bakes a cake and even invites guests.

Psychologists say there could be a problem if and when these women stop interacting socially with others in their life.


Tell me this is a sick joke.

O M G!! What's next?

I'm sorry, but that's just plain weird. Maybe they should hook up with some grown man who likes to wear diapers.

But those babies sure look real.

I should get one and scare the hell out of Dan!

TOO real.

I remember long ago coming across some photos of my aunt taken with each of her 3 stillborn babies.

These babies look like that.

It's creepy and sick.

Man, that is just so wrong. On so many different levels. Gross!

I saw those baby dolls on EBay about 4 years ago. They do look so real and they even had them on QVC I think it was at one time. These women take just regular baby dolls and disassemble them and make them to look like a real baby. They were so expensive then.