Why Some Women Pay Up to $5,000 for Life-Like, 'Reborn' Baby Dolls: Some Are Grieving, Others Think 'They're Cute' "You see a doll, I see a baby that I never got to hold,” a woman said after ...

In the late 1990s, the story goes, a British woman disassembled a store-bought baby doll and painted veining and a birthmark to make the doll look human, giving birth to the Reborn craze.