who designed the cabbage patch kids dolls?
Every doll also came with a signature on its rear end â that of Xavier Roberts, the manufacturer and supposed creator of the Cabbage Patch Kids. But a new Vice mini-documentary, âThe Secret History of the Cabbage Patch Kids,â reveals that the dolls were actually invented by artist Martha Nelson Thomas, who died of ovarian cancer in 2013. According to the 16-minute doc, which is part of Viceâs American Obsessions series, Roberts stole the idea after coming across Nelson Thomasâs dolls at a fair, and eventually turned them into a $2 billion franchise.