"The more realistic it looks, the more it's going to cost," Knoppe says. The most expensive dolls are made of full-body silicone, and those can cost up to $6,000 and even beyond that.

One master craftswoman is singlehandedly populating the uncanny valley of the dolls. Denise Hall, a 37-year-old doll artist from Wales, creates hyperrealistic silicone babies that she later hawks ...

The dolls look so real (Image: Jam Press/@babyclon_oficial) A woman is freaking people out with her silicone baby dolls that are so life-like they leave some questioning whether they are real babies.

Woman creates eerily realistic baby dolls that look SO lifelike people regularly confuse them for living, breathing newborns Susan Gibbs, 49, from Canada, paints silicone baby dolls known as 'reborns' ...

AT FIRST glance Lorna Miller’s silicone babies look real. They have sculpted arms and legs, hair that appears to grow out of the scalp, realistic skin tones and facial expressions.

WOMEN who can’t conceive are now paying hundreds of pounds for life-like silicone baby dolls, which can be personalised by gender, skin and eye colour. Mya Babies’ handmade new-borns ca… ...

WATCH: How I make reborn dolls — Why my silicone babies cost US$6,000 ... Occasionally, she places Lillie on her stomach before she sleeps, and places a hat on its head for a more realistic look.

Would you like a hyper-realistic silicone doll that looks and feels just like a real baby, complete with umbilical cord? How about one with tattoos on its face? Or a baby alien from the film Avatar?

In a workshop outside Paris in France, Celine Lallement stitched hairs into a silicone baby’s skull – the latest creation from a studio specialised in making ultra-realistic infants for the ...