ABC 7 News in Washington, DC has the explosive story: crazed, desperate, disturbed kooky women of a certain age are buying overpriced dolls that burp and sleep and look cute in pink booties and taking the babes around town, pretending they're real...
And it gets better.
Many people like to stop and play with newborn babies, but now some adult women are playing house with fake babies.
Some women are even going as far as taking day trips with the fake
babies to the park, out to eat, and even hosting birthday parties for
them.
Forty-nine-year-old Linda is married with no children of her own. Now,
she says she feels like a mother because she has Reborns -- dolls made
to look and feel like the real thing.
"It's not a crazy habit, like, you know, drinking, or some sort of,
something that's going to hurt you. It's like a hobby.and it doesn't
really hurt anybody," Linda said.
We'll take odds that your husband is thrilled you've found a hobby and that you've chosen this gem.We have to wonder what Linda says when the waiter asks why the baby hasn't moved in thirty-five minutes or tries to touch its little fingers: "Oh, actually, it's not real. I just carry it around because..." Because?
These women are paying big bucks for this hobby, from $100 to a few thousand dollars.
A few thousand dollars?! For a doll. You could always, you know, adopt a starving orphan or something insane like that...
In her Kansas City home, Moore even has an elaborate room for the
dolls. She organizes birthday parties, bakes a cake and even invites
guests.
Psychologists say there could be a problem if and when these women stop interacting socially with others in their life.
That last line will sustain as the understatement of 2009, mark our words. By the way, Scanner Emily, did you catch that? Lock your doors and load up your AR-15 assault rifle...
Via ABC.
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