Highly realistic baby dolls have become a global phenomenon, with collectors shelling out for luxury baby gear and doting on their “reborns” as if they were human children.

Customers fork over more than $4,000 for some dolls. Mediadrumimages/ Denise Hall Jess Ellis, a mom to 13 reborn dolls, spent nearly $7,500 on her collection of silicone babies.

Woman Defends Viral 'Reborn' Baby Adoptions as Cost Runs Upward of $1K: 'A Healing Journey' (Exclusive) Maria Trigg explains the process of sculpting the silicone babies to PEOPLE in an exclusive ...

Meet the women who paints human baby dolls and makes them look so life-like, that she sometimes struggles to let them go. Susan Gibbs, 49, a silicone artist from Canada, has been painting newborns ...

A woman is freaking people out with her silicone baby dolls that are so life-like they leave some questioning whether they are real babies. Cristina Jobs, 35, from Deltebre, Catalonia, is a ...

You Can Now "Adopt" These Lifelike Silicone Baby Dolls Which Can Cost Up To Rs 1 Lakh These silicone dolls deliver the cuteness and cuddles of a baby, without the messy bits involved ...

Reborns: Photos of creepy hyper-realistic silicone newborn baby dolls Would you like a doll that looks and feels just like a real baby, complete with umbilical cord?

Spanish company Babyclon, which makes silicone babies, shared a video of its newest creation, modeled on the Na'vi from the hit movie Avatar, but they divided their online followers.