A pre-manufactured reborn doll starts at around $50, Trigg says, while a hand-sculpted original finished silicone doll can cost upwards of $5,000 or even $10,000, depending on the artist.

Customers fork over more than $4,000 for some dolls. Mediadrumimages/ Denise Hall. Jess Ellis, a mom to 13 reborn dolls, spent nearly $7,500 on her collection of silicone babies. She previously ...

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The average price is $500 to $800 for a higher-quality reborn doll. The most Beebe has spent is $1,600 on an individual doll. "The more realistic it looks, the more it's going to cost," Knoppe says.

Searching for a more life-like reborn baby, Aleia found a full-bodied doll on Facebook Marketplace. “Altogether the baby was going to be $270,” said Aleia.

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She learned how to sculpt and paint silicone dolls in 2013, from watching YouTube videos, and began selling the dolls she created by hand in 2020, when they went viral during the pandemic.