To a bit freaked out by the women on My Fake Baby on Channel 4.

[viggoswife]

Just realised I have been sat like this for the past twenty minutes.

AIBU to be abit pi*sed off that one in particular can afford to spend £300 on designer clothes for her baby while saying that its worthwhile because they wont mess them up, when thats about the amount I spend on DC AND myself in a year.

I watched it the other night too, with DP, and we both agreed it was weird i think the little boy had it right when he said to his nan its a dolly numnuts...kids say the darndest things eh???

that blond woman who spent that money on designer clothes is a blardy NUTTER!! she just sounds like she weas too selfish to have children

feel sad that everyone on this thread is so mean to them. they are not hurting anyone, they are spending their own money, nor are they suggesting that everyone should get a baby doll. why be so spiteful?
i can think of lots of useless ways imo to spend money, expensive cars, designer furniture, but i don't automatically think the person buying it is a werdo.

feelingfedup expensive cars, designer furniture, mortgage, are all legitimate purchases. in fact many people do it. plastic creepy dollies and mollycoddling them like real babies is frankly odd, unsavoury and definitley worth passing comment on

i dont see anyone being "spiteful". I do see posters correctly asserting the strangeness of it all

Oh to hell with it why not get a doggie put a bonnet on it, push it around in a bugaboo, dress it in petit bateau and oilily^.makes as much sense

agree with scottishmummy.

lol at a dog in a bugaboo

Well scottishmummy I dont think dogs in buggys would sit too well with pram wheel washing 'mummy'. Dogs are arguably more messy than those dirty, uncontrollable, designer clothes ruining little horrors we call children.

And platesmasher when you write to her regarding car seat tell her Jon Bon Jovi wants his hair back.

Yes you can spend your money on whatever you want of course but this is WEIRD!

ha ha ha
I'll be sure to mention it

i think you are all very sad and bitchy on this thread,how dare you be juge and jury to these woman,yes you are entitled to your opinion,its of no buisiness to you what they spend their money on,theyve earnt it not you,and the shop the lady shopped in was harrads not selfriges,dont juge people by a sixty minute documentry,the ladys that make these dolls are very talented and put lots of hours into crating these dolls,the women have their own personal reasons for buying the dolls,you all need to get a life in this thread my my jealousy written all over your faces

Sasyshena - are you sure you're not one of this reborn fanatics that has gone to far as to join MN to make the fantasy even more "real"? NOONE has been bitchy - most people have just said they feel a bit sad for these women, who are clearly feeling an emotional void in their lives, in a (IMHO) more than slightly wierd and freaky way. Clearly the programme makers thought the majority of the general public would agree - That's why they made the programme - it's sensationalist material.

i have not read all the thread, but did watch the programme, and im pretty sure most of the women on here are not jeleous of others who push prams around with dolls in.

yes they can spend their own money on what they want, but to actually have a car seat for the doll, and top of the range prams, clothes, equipment, is imo excessive.

it is a doll.

"..it's of no business of yours what they spend their money on." sassyshana. Um, they're on a tv show?

LOL nickytwotimes

Jealousy Sassyshena? Are you for real? Personally am not jealous of the woman who chooses to deprive herself of the joy of real children because they get..... dirty. Of course they can spend their money on whatever they want but if they come on Channel 4 to tell us all about it then I think we are entitled to respond however we want. I wonder, if you have kids how happy you would feel about your Mum making replicas of them as babies and then pushing them around in prams and putting them in car seats as though real. No wonder the daughter emigrated to New Zealand, I think I would too. It is ODD.

It is exceptionally ODD to replicate babies that have existed in real life, and I took particular exception to the nana who re-made her grandson and had the insensitivity to freak her real life grandson out by SHOWING IT TO HIM on a web-cam. She HAS to be a sandwich short of the proverbial to think that he would find this anything other than disturbing. I can honestly say the whole programme literally turned my stomach. Put me right off my spag bol

If you search out the older threads on this programme, back at the beginning of this month there arre links to the reborn owners (mummies?) website, with photos of the mad blond Jon Bon Jovi woman with lots of these dolls, including photos of them on a 'family' holiday . It's one of the most disturbing things I've ever seen - I didn't know whether to scream with laughter or run away screaming. She is truly bonkers .

Here it is. Hunker found the doll forum, nearish the end, if it's not in the right place.

Pics are in a link from Hunker at 14:57, Thu 3rd Jan.

Here

and here

re the original pics if you can't be bothered searching the other thread.

I'm going now........

Sassyshena-i like the majority of the women here have got a (full and productive) life, and indeed a very real baby.not some hideous plastic caricature that i mollycoddle and dress.oh and if i have a funny look on my face please be assured it is open-mouthed shock (Not jealousy)

I started off feeling amused at these women - turned over just when the blonde one was spending pots of cash on designer stuff. To be honest if she has the money to spend on her 'hobby/obsession' fine - not sure it's my business to be shocked at that. I've spent lots of money on hobbies in the past ( before kids/partime work/no money at all).

The longer I watched I changed from amused horror to absolute pity for the pair of them. Not sure whether the blonde one had wanted a real child and coudn't though. I kind of assumed that. Anyone know ?? If it was just that she would rather have a fake one than a real puking, waking up in the night one, then that was daft! Thought the Grannie would have been better off spending the money on a plane ticket though!

I didn't see the whole show - how much did these dolls cost?

Marge - blondie always wanted kids when her DH and her "stopped wanting to go our and have fun" but they never stopped, so a real baby would just get in the way of their fabulous lifestyle. THAT IS HER REASON FOR A FAKE BABY.

OMG Have just wasted invested half an hour reading through the old thread, absolutely hysterical. Still chuckling about reborn DHs.....

I'm so glad I'm not the only person who thought it was pretty freaky to want a doll... Marge I think that the blonde and her partner had put it off wanting to live the high life and missed the boat as it were... I did feel for the granny but she should have put the money towards a plane ticket or emigrated herself :s

i think num-Nut granny should concentrate upon her relationship with the Very real Harry. she has a beautiful grandson - she needs to focus upon that