Polish artist Barbara Smolińska has been included on the BBC’s list of the 100 most inspiring and influential women worldwide for the year 2021. She has been featured because of the special baby dolls she is designing.
As a matter of fact, Barbara Smolińska is the founder of the Reborn Sugar Babies company, which produces life-like baby dolls that can be used as therapeutic aids in treating depression, anxiety and fertility issues.
Smolińska started the designing of these ultra-realistic dolls eight years ago. They are being used among others in films, commercials as well as to train nurses, doctors and midwives in several medical institutions.
“Smolińska is passionate about her art and believes that her creations give hope to women and improve their mental health,” the BBC reports.
“I would like people to become more empathetic, more open and tolerant of what is different, as is the case with the reborn dolls therapy, which can help so many women,” Smolińska was quoted as saying.
Barbara Smolińska started creating her dolls eight years ago. Her products have since then Not everyone knows that its products not only go to collectors, but some of them even took part in films and commercials.
The BBC list 2021 also includes inter alia:
- Malala Yousafzai, the youngest-ever Nobel Peace Prize laureate
- Fiamē Naomi Mata’afa, Samoa’s first female prime minister
- Prof. Heidi J. Larson, who heads the Vaccine Confidence Project
- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, renown Nigerian author
- Amanda Nguyễn, chief executive of Rise, an organisation that protects the rights of people who have been raped or sexually assaulted
- Lima Aafshid, award-winning poet and writer from Afghanistan
Author: Sébastien Meuwissen
Photos: Instagram barbara.smolinska
