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Martha Nelson Thomas (born Martha Marie Nelson, November 29, 1950 – May 26, 2013) was an American folk artist, known for her work in soft sculpture....

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Martha Nelson Thomas (born Martha Marie Nelson, November 29, 1950 – May 26, 2013) was an American folk artist, known for her work in soft sculpture.

Martha Nelson Thomas posing with her Doll Babies (and her son) in a Polaroid photograph taken in the mid-1980s by Jonathan Williams.

A small town Kentucky woman named Martha Nelson Thomas, who was known locally for her soft sculptures she called Doll Babies.

The name was Xavier Roberts, the man heralded for creating the iconic plush babies, with their distinctive friendly faces and pillowy bodies.

Unfortunately, there's a dirty secret behind Roberts' gangbusters idea, reports Vice in a new mini documentary on the history of the dolls: Roberts didn't come up with it.

He copied the concept (eventually making him millions) from American folk artist Martha Nelson Thomas.

In art school in the '70s, Thomas experimented with soft sculpture, and was "flat-out reinventing the doll," her friend photographer Guy Mendes told Vice.

She called them Doll Babies, and sold her handmade styles at craft fairs, where people could "adopt" the one-of-a-kind creatures.

Sound familiar? Roberts, who at one time bou