I MARRIED A ZOMBIE
Woman celebrates big day with the bloody “love of her life”
Felicity Kadlec Rossi, 21, has married a zombie doll after an “emotional and intimate” seven-year relationship and says they even consummated their marriage. The ceremony took place in Tiverton, Rhode Island, and cost $500 (£388). It was attended by four of her family friends and eight of her other dolls, who “watched” her wed the “love of her life”, who Felicity says is called Kelly Rossi and is aged 37. Images of the wedding show Felicity in a white wedding dress, lovingly embracing the toy, which was dressed in a tuxedo for the occasion, but deigned not to wash the blood, white makeup or black smudges off its face – or tidy up its teeth. After their wedding, Felicity said that Kelly was the groom because she “takes the male role in our relationship” and dressed her up in a suit because she is a tomboy. However, since sharing her love for the doll, she has received hate messages from people believing her wife is a dead child. She enlisted the help of her local police in Vinita, Oklahoma. During her visit to Vinita Police station on 28 March, she had a photograph taken with Kelly and a policeman who held a sign stating: “Vinita police checked it out. It’s just a doll.” Felicity says she’s been in a relationship with the doll since she was 16, after finding Kelly on a ‘creepy doll’ website at 13 and developing romantic feelings three years later. “Like myself, Kelly aged with me and I have only ever seen her as an adult – she has never been a child in my eyes,” she said. “Kelly was created as a Hallowe’en doll and wasn’t created to have any likeness to a child – she’s just a zombie… Ever since people have called me a pædophile I have had a hard time being affectionate with Kelly. Now that it has been confirmed, I want to be able to move on and enjoy our relationship and marriage… I married Kelly but only because I accept her for who she is.
I look past her bloody face and I don’t mind her not having a jaw.” Metro, 10 April; unilad. co.uk,