My Fake Baby

[Glpblondie]

Did anybody see this last night on C4! I found it really disturbing!! What do you think??

[trionam]

To say the least I know they said they werent doing anybody any harm but I think they really should see a doctor it cant be right,the woman who was trying to replace her grandson as a baby, when her husband saw the doll he took the words out of my mouth when he said it looked like it should be on a morgue slab,I know a lot of detail goes into making these dolls but they are the most freaky looking things i have ever seen.

[patsyann]

Had a quick glance at trailer that was enough. Very sick people to be so obsessed.

[CheekyChops]

That other woman had serious problems, the one who had four 'babies' and spent nearly �300 on designer outfits for them! She even washed the pram wheels when she took them outside and had a family portrait done. Barking mad!

[DJerba]

I missed it! I saw the adverts and it all looked a bit crazy! Were they women who couldn't have children? Or were they just mad?!

[jakesi]

If you walked past these people when they where pushing there "babies" in their prams, and you looked down and went ooohh what a loverly baby, then you found out it was not breathing, it would freak you out, and then they say " don't worry its only a doll". That would freak me out. bloody weirdos.

[rugeleyboy]

there must be a name for this?......it has to be an illness?

the woman who washed the pram wheels and went to America to fetch another one with her mother seriously needs some kind of help?

the nan....... i was pleased to hear the grandson was still alive as the way the program makers dragged the story out , i thought she was trying to replace a dead child??

[trionam]

I didnt see it all but the women I saw was a grandmother and from what I could gather she looked after her grandson for a long time while her daughter had cancer and they now lived abroad,the showed the grandson the new (baby harry) on the webcam and the grandson said to her thats just a doll and I think he called her numbnuts or something and she was like no its a real baby! mad as a brush, she had said her reason for wanting the doll was because people will stop and talk to you if you are pushing a pram can you imagine her neighbours when they look in the pram and see this freaky looking doll!

[Goodsoulette]

I didnt see it but we used to have a woman come in town with pram and a baby doll and, to put it bluntly. I just assumed she was a nutjob. I remember thinking at the time I wouldn't trust her around any small children.

I suppose it's not doing any harm but it would get any mothers hackles up.

[pastafreak]

There was a thread on Chatterbank last night and the general consensus was that at the least these were lonely woman. And at the worst they were totally barmy. Obviously it is a huge industry, so there are many more like them. Rather sad realy.

[rom]

it chilled me to my very core!!
i have never seen anything like it !! ever!!
and i dont want to.
i guess though, they arent actually doing any harm.
gives me the shivers though.
i thought sue (?) the one who went to america was the freakiest. Although that one whose poor wee grandson (god bless him, calling her a numb nut!!) was not all there surely?

[gina32]

i also think they needed help especially the nan, although i suppose until youve been in that position you dont know what youd do, but i dont think id go that far, the "baby" that was american looked awful, didnt look anywhere near real, and that woman had a load of prams in the house and look how much she forked out for that american babys clotrhes for the return trip, more money thatn sense

[4GS]

Those dolls looked like Chucky

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[Louisa 69]

I didn't watch it, but did see the trailer for it and that was enough for me :(

[lidlicker]

I found it very sad. The grandmother particularly. I suppose when I thought about it, these women are so desperate that it is far better to buy a doll than to think about taking someone elses baby.

[4GS]

I thought her grandson was dead, then they said the boys mother had re-married and gone to New Zealand with him. How upset was she when she showed him the doll and called it 'baby Harry' and he said she was silly as it was a doll? Did she really convince herself that it wasd a real baby.
And that woman who was upset because she 'bonded with her (the doll) then found out that it was damaged? Some folk have issues

[daffy654]

http://www.classic-collection-dolls.co.uk/acat alog/Artist_Dolls__Ashton_Drake_82.html

These dolls are similar,I actually like them but not in the way the women in that programme did. I would never take a doll out in a pram,you'd have to be mentally ill to do that!!!

[Hermia]

I am in two minds about this. One the one hand the women were a lot saner than I was expecting. They were all well aware that it was fantasy and that at the end of the day it wasn't a real baby (okay, the woman who went to America was a bit strange, but she seemed to be a woman with a rich hubby and no job and those sort of women have to find something to do to fill their time whether it's going for beauty treatments every day or collecting porcelain dogs etc).

What I thought was sad it that those women (including the doll-maker) all said that they felt that they had no identity and that they missed the sense of identity you get when you have a baby. I just thought it's sad that they have no other sense of identity.

[smurfchops]

Can't get the programme out of my head, that woman who went to America definitely has a lot more money than sense. Poor husband going along with it. The baby in America looked like a monkey - did you see its ears ? Sad people. On that note, I am trying to find the website for the woman who makes them in England ... was it something like Baby Bunting? My husband and I have bets as to how much they cost ... and No I don't want one ... ugly things. Surreal.