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Doll play

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rootietootie · 06/12/2011 17:11

AIBU to think thatthis woman is cringeworthy and off her rocker weird? She even admitted

"Looking at Finlay for the first time, there was a stronger bond than I had with Becky."

I feel so sorry for the daughter, having to compete with that!

And i don't care that it's from the DM neither!

OP posts:
liveinazoo · 06/12/2011 19:29

poor,poor real childSad

justonemorethread · 06/12/2011 19:35

Are these stories actually true in these tabloid newspapers? Really? Why would they publicly humiliate an underage girl who has no say in the matter?
I just don't get how the editors' minds work.

DamnDeDoubtance · 06/12/2011 19:41

Why does it mention she is unemployed and on benefits???

Bethshine82 · 06/12/2011 19:43

I love that it comes in pieces and has to be assembled. That's brilliant. She assembled her baby. I mean obviously it is disturbing and wrong but I did snigger a tiny bit.

Terrible for her actual real child though.

SolidGoldVampireBat · 06/12/2011 19:48

Yes, it's the fact of the 12-year-old DD having to share her mother with an object that's upsetting, and I do think there's something deeply wrong about the papers printing pictures and naming names in a case like this. That poor kid had no say in the matter and she's going to get all kinds of shit at school.

mumtosome · 06/12/2011 19:51

I agree. This poor woman obviously has MH issues. Her poor daughter is actually suffering emotional neglect because of it..........who oh why would anyone think that she would be able to adopt.......no way would she pass the assessment!! ANd rightly so AFAIC

Kayano · 06/12/2011 19:53

I don't get how MN all suddenly become qualified doctors on these threads..

'she clearly has mental health issues'

?

Maybe she is just a selfish and shit mother?

CarolCervix · 06/12/2011 19:54

i quite fancy a fake baby. i don't want a real one, too much mess and noise. and i'm not mad keen on real children even my own. maybe i should have bought one 16 years ago. i wonder if i'd be saner or more of a fruitcake than i am now?

Kayano · 06/12/2011 19:56

I didn't mean that all terribly but I have seen a lot of threads and behaviour that is just generally bad or shocking described as a mental health issue....

It's easy to
Say but you don't KNOW

LaurieFairyCake · 06/12/2011 19:58

Another shut Daily Mail story.

I think it's easy to read too much into it - for all we know the daughter is well cared for and mum just has a bizarre hobby.

It would hardly be a shocking story if she spent 500 over a couple of years on tea and cake out with friends Hmm

squeakytoy · 06/12/2011 19:58

There is a woman on our road who wheels her yorkshire terrier (wearing a bonnet) around in a buggy... which I find slightly more sane than the woman in that article..

PontyMython · 06/12/2011 19:58

True Kayano... It's just hard to believe that someone sane would devote significant amounts of time and money to a doll!

LaurieFairyCake · 06/12/2011 19:58

Shit not shut

sweetsantababy · 06/12/2011 19:59

OK yes it is weird to treat the doll as a baby, taking it out, the cot etc.

However I have one, there I've said it. I know its not a real baby and mostly don't treat it like one. But it has got a name and I do like to have little cuddle with it. Blush It started off ^sleeping6 in my bed, then the floor and now DD3 has retrieved it from the wardrobe and plays with it and I have cuddle when she lets me. DD does refer to it has mummy's baby. See I'm not mad proved by my use of it and not she. Grin

picnicbasketcase · 06/12/2011 19:59

That is fucked up.

I should probably be a bit more supportive, but that poor wee girl, playing second fiddle to what amounts to her mother's imaginary friend.

SolidGoldVampireBat · 06/12/2011 20:11

ANyone remember the troll on here who had a doll baby?

Pandemoniaa · 06/12/2011 20:11

These reborns truly are the creepiest creations - I also wonder what was going through the mind of their inventors, to be honest. Although I did find the picture of the about to be baked baby going in the oven a fascinating composition (I say this as a photographer, incidentally, in case anyone gets the impression that I condone the routine baking of babies).

Disregarding the classic DM digs about benefits, there's something desperately worrying going on here though, and I feel very sorry for the woman's daughter.

CarolCervix · 06/12/2011 20:14

i thought it was a monkey SG. or a bear or summat?

SnapesMistressofMerriment · 06/12/2011 20:21

It is most likely nowhere near as bad as described in the DM. They have form for interviewing people and then lying through their teeth about what was said and completely misrepresenting the issue or person.

chocolateyclur · 06/12/2011 20:25

The story made me shiver on behalf of her daughter. I can't imagine her having an easy time at school.

Also, am glad I'm not the only one who noticed the state of the carpets.

SantasStrapon · 06/12/2011 20:36

Pande the oven photograph gave me the giggles. It was so surreal. Xmas Blush

The woman in the article just comes across as not particularly bright, and a bit immature. Certainly, no worse than any of the women featured in the documentary.

OhDoAdmitMrsDeVere · 06/12/2011 20:42

I used to wonder about the people that made them. I assumed they were nutters or exploiters of nutters.
Then I saw that docu about them and the woman who made them was lovely. Very normal but very caring.

She was an artist, no doubt about it.
She didnt see them as babies, they were dolls.

She didnt have any control over the people that bought them.

There was one woman who pissed me off in a quite illogical way. The first half of the programme built up to make it seem like she had lost her grandson. She was moping about looking all sad.

Turns out he had moved abroad with his mother and she spoke to him regularly. I suspected that the daughter had moved her son as far away as possible from his crazy grandmother. She now has an exact replica of him (he is not her only grandchild AFAIK) that she mopes over.

I know I sound mean but when I found out that he wasnt dead I wanted to chuck something at the tv.

BUt you never know with these things, they could have manipulated the whole thing.

PeppaPigHostage · 06/12/2011 20:45

I just started a thread in chat about this, I hadn't seen this one. Its all a bit weird really and I feel so, so sorry for the (real) daughter especially as she is getting a 'baby girl' soon. That is just rotten for Becky.

I don't know how you can be so invested in something that you know is fake.

pranma · 06/12/2011 20:48

As I said on the other thread imagine how Becky will feel at school now that that has been plastered over the newspapers!

SantasStrapon · 06/12/2011 20:52

Oh yes, MrsDV, I remember her, she was really odd. And the woman who flew to the States to pick up her new baby and had a tantrum because there was something really minor wrong with it.

Feel very sorry for the daughter. Bet she wishes she hadn't agreed to be photographed.

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