Eve on INSIDE EDTION - aired on 1-31-2008

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Making Babies in the Oven?

ORIGINAL AIRDATE: 1/31/2008

Though she says some may find her business strange, Newsom says it gives her much pleasure to create the lifelike dolls. To set the paint she's added, Newsom puts her dolls in the oven. Elizabeth O'Malley is overjoyed with her new arrival - a "Reborn" from Eve Newsom's kitchen!		Elizabeth O'Malley is so excited because her new baby has just arrived -- in a box! This isn't just any baby, it's an incredibly lifelike doll. But that is of no matter to O'Malley who's just as excited as if she were welcoming home a real baby. The new mom even has the crib all ready! O'Malley's baby was "born" in another woman's kitchen! Eve Newsom couldn't have babies of her own. After seven miscarriages, Newsom decided that she create baby dolls - and she would do so by "cooking" them in her oven! Newsom is a rare breed of doll maker. She creates what she calls "Reborns" at her home in Florida. Using paint, glass eyes and scary looking tools, Newsom "rebirths" ordinary dolls into extraordinarily lifelike babies that fool most people at first glance. Newsom told INSIDE EDITION after her heartbreaking miscarriages she derived great comfort from the dolls she now creates. "I love babies. I've always loved babies," said Newsom. Realizing that she could not have any babies of her own, Newsom said she knew that when she saw people transforming baby dolls into very lifelike babies, she had to do it. To Newsom, the dolls she makes are real. She tenderly changes their diapers. She cradles them, and even washes their hair. When Newsom travels, one of her babies always rides with her -- in a car seat, of course! "There are people that don't get it. They think it's sick. They think it's twisted. They think it's morbid, but I say to each his own. It's not hurting anybody. In fact, many of the dolls I create give people so much pleasure," said Newsom. Today Newsom is taking her newest creation, little Kristin, to buy some clothes. It's no wonder so many people are fooled as it takes Newsom about two weeks to "rebirth" a doll. Extraordinary attention to detail is important to Newsom. First she paints tiny blue veins where they would naturally appear on a real baby. A touch of white paint then transforms the doll's orangey skin into the peaches and cream complexion of a real baby. Then, though it may seem creepy to some, Newsom carefully places the baby parts onto a cookie sheet and bakes the paint on in her oven! Once the paint is baked on, Newsom uses a two inch prong to implant goat's hair into the baby's head. When she's all done, Newsom's creations sell for $800 and up. Women like Elizabeth O'Malley are happy to pay it. She ordered a "Reborn" to look exactly like her daughter did when she was born.
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