A family on YouTube, who have 1.2 million subscribers, have made a life-like replica doll of their four-month-old baby.

It is in collaboration with dollmaker Mary Shortle, who makes realistic-looking dolls.

The Ingham Family — mother Sarah, dad Chris, Isabelle (aged 13), Esmé (aged 9), Isla (aged 7), and newborn Jace — make vlogs about their daily lives.

Some fans love the idea of getting their own Jace clone, complete with birth certificate and nappies. Others are horrified.

Sarah Ingham told INSIDER: "You have to remember this isn't a mold of his face and body," and they are "extremely happy" with the result.

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There's a trend some people are really into where they buy incredibly realistic-looking dolls. And if you're a fan of the Ingham Family, great news, they've decided to get involved in the fad and have released a replica version of their four-month-old baby.

The Ingham Family have 1.2 million subscribers on YouTube, and make vlogs about their daily lives. In the family, there's the mother Sarah, dad Chris, Isabelle (aged 13), Esmé (aged 9), Isla (aged 7), and newborn Jace, who is four months old.

In a video posted on July 19, Sarah Ingham pointed the camera at a picture of Jace that Esmé drew, and said there was a good reason they were showing it. Then she mentioned doll maker Mary Shortle, and how they had been working on something together.

"She and us have come up with something really really incredible, and we're all so excited about it," she said. "And we're going to pick him up right now."

In the shop, the Ingham daughters are shown playing with the incredibly life-like dolls, called reborns. Then, Sarah gets them to close their eyes because they're about to see the new design of their little brother's clone. They gasp.

But they're not horrified. Far from it. They're in awe.

"Oh my gosh I love it," says Esmé. "So cute." Isabelle covers her mouth and looks thrilled.

"I can't believe how — it's so like him," says Sarah.

Which is real? The Ingham Family

The doll is supposed to look like Jace when he was 2 weeks old. There have been 250 produced in total, and each purchase comes with a photo, birth certificate signed by the family, nappies, and outfits. They cost £279 ($346) to £344 ($426) on the Mary Shortle website.

"Those of you who buy baby Jace will have the opportunity to bring Jace, your baby, down to Mary Shortle's, we'll get some food in and we'll have a party," said Sarah. "We will be there, you'll get to meet the real Jace, and we'll just have a good time."

Sarah told INSIDER the family had built up a friendship with Mary Shortle after Esmé received one of their dolls for Christmas.

"Since then we have purchased numerous of the Mary shortle dolls and our girls love playing and taking care of them," she said. "Similar to when I was little and loved having replicas of spice girl dolls we thought it was a lovely idea for our followers to have the opportunity to purchase a doll representing Jace."

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A lot of people who are desperate to buy a doll for themselves commented on the video.

"What an incredible thing to have and show Jace when he gets older," wrote one person. "Got a bit emotional watching that."

Others aren't so keen.

"You are freaking KIDDING!" commented one person. Others wrote that it was "unbelievably weird," "creepy," and "irresponsible."

"Honestly shocked," said one viewer. "He's YOUR baby no one else's, why would you want someone to have a replica of your own child, it's honestly wrong on so many levels."

Another asked: "What if a weirdo buys one?", adding a grimacing emoji.

The dolls are dividing opinion on Twitter too. "I want to puke..the ingham family are selling reborns of their baby for £....wtf thats just gross...its like your selling your kid," one person wrote.

Sarah told INSIDER "you have to remember this isn't a mold of his face and body."

"It's simply a baby dolly hand painted beautifully in the Mary Shortle nursery to represent him," she said.

"Of course like with everything we have also received a few comments from people saying it's creepy but if YouTube has thought us anything it's that you can't please everyone and the positivity far outweighs the negative."

She added: "So we are extremely happy."

Petty Paige, who runs a drama channel on YouTube, said she doesn't have a problem with lifelike dolls, but brought up the fact Chris Ingham was accused of predatory behavior towards teenage girls in 2018.

The Ingham Family has always venehemtly denied the claims.

"We are aware that certain untrue stories have been posted on social media platforms in the last 24 hours regarding Chris. These stories are not true and the accusations made are entirely without foundation," they said in a statement at the time.

"We are all very hurt and deeply upset by these cynical attempts to damage Chris' reputation and will take whatever steps are necessary to preserve Chris' good name. We are taking action and can't comment further at this time."

In short, it looks like some people love the idea of creating 250 lifeless versions of a newborn child. But others really, truly hate it.

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