What are Brazil’s reborn dolls sparking debate and outrage?

What are Brazil’s reborn dolls sparking debate and outrage?

After the craze over labubu dolls, reborn dolls, or hyper-realistic baby dolls, have taken Brazil by storm. Videos of people feeding, rocking, and even taking these dolls to parks, hospitals and parliament have flooded social media. While some find them fascinating or therapeutic, others are a little creeped out. So, what’s behind the reborn doll mania?

These hyper-realistic baby dolls, designed to look exactly like real newborns (down to the last vein and wrinkle), have taken Brazil by storm. AP