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Vera
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 Posted - 02 Jan 2008 : 10:04:38 PM
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My Fake Baby - Channel 4 - Wednesday 2nd January 2008 - 10.00PM
My Fake Baby explores the lives of women who spend hundreds, and sometimes thousands, of pounds on life-like baby dolls. Known as "reborns" some of the dolls have beating hearts, others have tiny veins and even milk spots. Loved like real babies, they're taken for walks, cuddled and even have their nappies changed. Doll designer Jaime - a mother of four - now fulfils the dreams of other women by engineering babies to their specifications in her front room.
Adoptive "mums" include women with grown-up children, grandmothers living away from their grandchildren and women who have left it too late to have their own babies. My Fake Baby delves into an extraordinary pursuit which, although bizarre to some, brings great rewards to the women involved.
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polly
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paul_exe
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Posted - 02 Jan 2008 : 11:03:44 PM
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OMG aren't they lifelike....... Got to feel for the poor little blighters though... they are butt ugly.........
How the heatstrings must be pulling for these poor parents.... They will never leave home........!!!
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bridie
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Posted - 02 Jan 2008 : 11:08:40 PM
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| I saw the trailer for this and felt quite sick and sad. |
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Arabian Girl
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Posted - 02 Jan 2008 : 11:19:12 PM
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| i thought it was weird....in fact i felt embaressed for that woman shoppin in harrods who paid 250.00+ for the roberto cavalli stuff an she had her doll in the pram...it was very cringe worthy,,,i wandered how much those dollos sold for?????and the young girl that costomises them but be rubbing her hands together every time she sells one.....strange and creepy |
   
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Tahir
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Posted - 02 Jan 2008 : 11:34:30 PM
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That was such a sad programme (apart from when the young grandchild called grandmother "numnuts" for thinking the doll was a real baby!!!).
I can't believe people are happy to spend thousands on a doll when there are real children that need help - what a weird world we live in?????
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mad alice
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Posted - 02 Jan 2008 : 11:34:38 PM
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| Check them out on ebay. There are hundreds of them on there. I discovered them looking for Christmas presents for Isobel. How macarbre! |
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Mrs Vlacq
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Posted - 02 Jan 2008 : 11:39:58 PM
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caught a bit of this.......
CREEPY!!!!! (shudder) |
    
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Goldenmane
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Posted - 03 Jan 2008 : 07:18:47 AM
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| My heart went out to the ladies involved. |
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geegee
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Posted - 03 Jan 2008 : 08:10:31 AM
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I thought it was all very sad. I think the ladies need therapy not more dolls, especially the ones that took them out in their prams.
There is obviously more to it than just having dolls.... |
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NUTTER
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Posted - 03 Jan 2008 : 08:22:56 AM
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To me i cannot understand them if it does not have blood and a real heartbeat its not a living creature !!!
So to me have a real pet!!!
But as the women said she is hurting nobody and she is so right in what she says,
I never could shock my husband as apparently i never cease to amaze him on a daily basis!!! but i think i would proberly shock him if i took to pushing a doll around in a very expensive pram and started buying bottle warmers at a £100 a time!!!!
But then again if we could all look into one anothers homes we would proberly shock ourselves as to what goes on behind others closed front doors !!!!
So i have decided not to go a head with the fly on the wall documentery for reality tv so that all you aliners carry on talking to me!!!!
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Kash
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Posted - 03 Jan 2008 : 08:59:41 AM
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I saw some of this but had to change the channel over as it was terribly creepy...
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Judith S
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Posted - 03 Jan 2008 : 09:51:55 AM
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I am so glad I don't have TV!!! Sounds very odd!!!!
Have just looked them up on ebay....I wish I hadn't - I find them very creepy |
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Pixie
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Posted - 03 Jan 2008 : 10:42:42 AM
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| i watched the last 20 minutes of this programme. each to their own..... the lady with the grandson when she was driving said..... some people even take them out in prams and i'm not planning on doing this but i might and even if i do who am i hurting....... well clearly she is not hurting anyone but herself. even her husband didn't like the doll. i found them scarey but don't like real babies so i am highly unlikely to like fakes ones. although you could put a fake one in the cupboard under the stairs and forget about it without anyone reporting you. lol |
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nikki
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Posted - 03 Jan 2008 : 12:20:04 PM
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| I caught the end, freaky how real they looked. |
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georgiauk
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Posted - 03 Jan 2008 : 1:31:30 PM
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| Didn't see this one but I can remember seeing a similar program about sad men who buy life size dolls as girlfriends. The bit about how they repair them was very weird, legs missing or bent and one even had it's head broken, what on earth were they doing with them.........don't answer that, sicko's me thinks ! |
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Gail
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Posted - 03 Jan 2008 : 7:58:08 PM
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I actually watched this in horror. As someone already said spending nearly £300 on clothes in Harrods for a doll is crazy.....isnt it? What she said was more worrying though, if she put those clothes on a baby and the baby got the clothes dirty....she would be really annoyed.Then when she flew to the states to collect the new doll....she packed a case of clothes and took a pram with her. Imagine carting a pram all that way.....for a doll. Very Very odd lady.
The little grandson summed it up when he called Grandma "numnuts" for trying to tell him it was a real baby. He was about 6 but was not going to fall for it.
I suppose they are not really hurting anyone.....are they?
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Arabian Girl
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Posted - 03 Jan 2008 : 10:41:01 PM
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| strange........... |
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Vera
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Posted - 03 Jan 2008 : 10:44:07 PM
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| As strange as Guys and their Dolls - anyone remember that documentry? |
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paul_exe
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Posted - 03 Jan 2008 : 11:00:03 PM
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OMG how sad do I sound, but yes I did watch that programme............ Vera, you and I need to get out more.........
That was a scary programme.......... What is the world coming to.... We will all be having face lifts, and wearing Bear Skin slippers, donated from our children from the USA before we know it........... 
Paul............. Capricorn, Scarey that I am....... do not cross me......... |
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Arabian Girl
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Posted - 03 Jan 2008 : 11:31:24 PM
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| i did see the one with the guys and there dolls,,,,i actually found that funny,,and i got lotsa mileage outa that one talking about it in my salon..ha ha,,especially the guy that set em up in the drive reading books ect and the same guy went hand gliding an took the doll with him to watch,,plus that nerdy lookin guy who looked latin american an hes dolll got sent away for a repair,,,,urgh urgh but ha ha |
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paul_exe
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Posted - 04 Jan 2008 : 12:16:01 AM
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| Arabian Girl........... That was me....... are you laughing at me............... LMAOROTF xXx |
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Sadika
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Posted - 04 Jan 2008 : 10:00:47 AM
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I just could not believe that fake baby programme - in fact the programme before it was unbelievable too (the young mum who weighed 64 stone ... she sadly died following her op) - HOW do people get like this? Still I suppose if everyone was "normal" it wouldn't make good tv.
Re the fake babies - taking them out in their prams??? One woman said she didn't like being ignored in the street and having a baby made people want to stop and talk - well what do they say when they find out it's basically a doll in the pram?
The woman who went to the USA to collect her baby (along with her mother...) only to spend 2 days bonding with it then finding it had a cracked head. I thought she was going to USA to collect it straight from the artist but no it was sent by carrier to her hotel. She had spent around £300 on an outfit for it and a bottle carrier ... I think she's obviously got a problem - too much time on her hands/not enough to do usefully? yet she said she'd not had time to have a real baby and if she had had a baby she'd have wanted a quiet and clean one - well to my mind thank goodness some real baby has avoided parents like her and her seemingly weak, indulgent husband. What about the needing to have clean wheels for each pram ...???!!!
The fake babies seem to be pretty popular on eBay - lots of "watchers" maybe prompted by the programme. They sell for £150 - £400 ish and no doubting they are fantastically realistic. I have no problem with people collecting dolls or whatever (indeed as a collector of horse figurines myself I do appreciate the collecting "bug") but it's the pushing them out in a pram etc I do wonder about!! Oh and that lady with the room full of them ...
PS Did any of you think the woman who went to USA looked something like thingy Battersby-Brown who used to be on Corrie?? |
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polly
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Posted - 04 Jan 2008 : 10:27:20 AM
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| I just looked at the link posted and I think ...(apart from the whole run screaming away sort of wierdness in the extreme) that ..Yes they look realistic EXCEPT for the ears ....now they are wierd! |
   
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