Is she an ActiveRain member?
No I don't see her in AZ on ActiveRain. She is a Realtor and an artist, who sells the "reborn" babies she creates.
Note The woman pictured here is not the Realtor
The tweet of the story from the Today Show this AM asked "Cuddly or Creepy?" Woman of a certain age ( I believe they say 40, 50, 60 more than once between the article and video) playing with realistic baby dolls.
In the video it does not say she is a Realtor. It does in the article:
Bogus baby boom: Women who collect lifelike dolls
“It fills a spot in your heart,” Lynn Katsaris told TODAY’s Matt Lauer Wednesday in New York as she cuddled “Benjamin” and “Michael” in her arms. A realtor from suburban Phoenix, Katsaris is also an artist who has created 1,052 reborn dolls and sold them to women around the world. She was one of three grown women visiting the show with five of the the bogus — but eerily realistic — babies cradled tenderly in their arms." emphasis on "realtor" added.
I know long ago a member told a really creepy story on ActiveRain about running into a couple with "babies." My buyers - the Cabbage Patch Family...U won't believe this... (Members Only) That was the first I had ever heard of this... I wonder if others have run into these "babies" in homes, but that is really just the same sort of interest I have in stories I see on the front page of a tabloid in the grocery check out line. I am a strong believer in not "kissing and telling" when it comes to what we have seen in homes we've shown as "Realtors" especially via blogging but that's just me...
Looks can be deceiving
The word "realtor" caught my eye in the article by Mike Celizic, a TODAYShow.com contributor or I probably would not have even read it. It does not say the professions of the other two women who were interviewed by Matt Lauer yesterday. I assumed the woman in the middle on the couch is the Realtor. I assumed that woman who is pictured in the Today Show article was the Realtor, the woman shown at the start of the MSNBC video. She looks like a Realtor to me. Not that the woman on the far left of the couch talking with Matt Lauer does not look like a Realtor... or a gifted artist, since she makes these baby dolls. They don't say what the other two woman do... wonder why they mention her other profession.
Grown-Ups playing with...
Collecting. Men collect cars... guns. Some women have collected dolls for years. When we list a house of a collector we usually would tell them to pack up collections. Of course a collection can distract buyers from looking at the house. I had a client who collected cars but I did not make him store the cars away from the house. Double standard? The cars were out in the garage...
Now being a childless woman of a certain age... I am so glad I don't have a $1000 dollars to spend for a doll... nor the urge. I do however have to confess an urge to dress the cat up in a sailor suit... he's a boy so I would not want to put him in a dress... that would just be wrong. The poor cat does not even want to be held or cradled... so, so far it has just been an idle threat, so the Humane Society, the ASPCA and the cat can relax....
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I had put Matt Lauer on my do not watch list a long time ago so I missed this. Curious, what will your cat be for halloween?