My Child

These dolls had bodies made with the same soft fabric as a My Child, with similar skin-tones, posable legs and solid arm-joints and pink or blue torsos.

Dolls came as boys or girls, with four different skin tones: American pale (with a green heart on the bottom), Australian/European peach, African-American, and Hispanic.

Occasionally a doll can be found with a factory 'flaw' and their eye color can vary from the standard, for example hazel, lilac, blue-gray, blue-green, and green.

Hispanic girls came with a v-part style (hair worn down, with little bunches on either side of the head, but with a difference being that they did not have a full fringe typical of other My Childs).

Australian and European dolls (identifiable by the 'HR' visible at the end of the ID code on the tag, and peachy skin) were manufactured with other variations of pigtails (known as 'double ribbons' and 'ringlet ponies').

As well as the v-part and crimp (similar to the Hispanic girls, only with a full fringe) and the 'ultra-long' (nearly to dolls' ankles) worn in bunches on either side.

They were puppies (blue and tan), bears (gray and brown), cats (yellow and pink) and rabbits (purple and white).

With the same "My Child" eyes, they had an animal-style mouth, with fur covered bodies (their hands, soles of their feet and stomachs showing through).

Certain facial features, eye and hair colors, styles and skin tone may affect a doll's desirability and so will influence the price.

These dolls are now around 30 years old, and as they were designed as a children's toy, many are in "played-with" condition, which varies from slight pilling, eye scratches and other damage, stains, broken joints, "melted-eye syndrome" and hair-cuts.