My Fake Baby is a documentary that explores the lives of women who collect and care for life-like designer dolls called "reborns". The reborns are customized to the owners' specifications. The dolls can be made to have beating hearts, scratches, milk spots, specific hair colors, and open ears and nostrils -- just to name a few.
Although some "mothers" admit to missing out on their reborns interacting witth them like real babies, they will say that reborns are perfect because they don't scream or make a fuss like real chidren.
Whether it's replacing a lost child or being lazy in wanting to care for a real child, I find this very disturbing. I never enjoyed playing with dolls even when I was a little girl so to see grown women caring for such life-like dolls like real babies seems very sad to me.
The documentary is split into five parts: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5.
