"Then they're weighted like a real baby. So when you're holding them, you get that – it's like that maternal instinct. And for me, that was comforting." A sculptor molds the doll with clay.

A North London woman who owns 16 reborn dolls says she "understands" why Katie Price has bought them - and urges trolls to stop calling her "crazy". Jess Ellis, 29, started making and collecting the ...