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Asbury Park Press interviews the little boy who inspired the line of mixed race dolls and the founders of Real Kidz. Keep an eye out, fans! There are some new dolls in the works that will be added to the collection!

“It looks like me when I was little,” Cameron explains, “but now I’m older, it doesn’t look as much as me, but it’s still me . . . and I love me.” For Cameron’s aunt Courtney Helm, there couldn’t be any higher praise. Five years ago, when Cameron was born, Helm went looking for “just the right” gift for her nephew. She was disappointed.

“Cameron’s been the inspiration from the start,” says Helm, who founded Molloy Toys with her husband, David. “I wanted Cameron to feel comfortable in whatever situation he’s in. I want to teach tolerance. I want kids to celebrate their heritage.”

Since the launch last year, the response to the dolls has been overwhelmingly positive, Helm says. “We’ve been getting a lot of requests from children and parents of all different backgrounds for dolls who look like them,” she says. In response, Molloy Toys is working on a new line that will hopefully be out by the end of the year. Among the biracial combinations likely to be included in the new line: black-Hispanic and Hispanic-Asian.