So, hands up. Who watched My Fake Baby last night? After watching Half Ton Mum, I watched five minutes of it but turned off - it freaked me out too much. I had had enough of disturbing docs for one evening, so switched over to a film. But today, the show really seems to have touched a nerve. It's one of those shows that everyone is now talking about.
Just to remind you, the programme followed women who made life-like babies (called 're-borns'), and the women who buy them (mostly to replace babies they can't have or babies they had and have lost). It was seriously freaky, featured more bonkers people than you can shake a stick at and made me turn off. You can see clips of it here. So tell us what you think? Was this the freakiest ever documentary? Did it make you feel a bit ill?
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Yes it was heart felt and left me sad. But one has to ask oneself, by ridiculing or shaming these collectors (women) for being emotionally loving towards THEIR baby dolls say something more about us than it does about them? I mean really, do we chastise men for their expensive train hobbies? or auto hobbies? If these baby dolls make these women happy then don't pity them for it, it's not your life or anyone's life on the line here. I mean really, how cynical have we become to pick on someone who chooses this as an avenue of fulfillment in the hours of a day.