Joy for girl with prosthetic leg over doll with 'leg like me'

This is the moment a girl with a prosthetic leg burst into tears of joy after being given a doll with a prosthetic leg like her own.

Emma Bennett couldn't hide her emotions as she opened the present delivered to her by her little sister.

“You’ve got to be kidding me,” said Emma, from Houston, Texas. “It has a leg like me!”

Emma reacts to finding a doll with a prosthetic leg in the box. Credit: Facebook / Courney Bennett
Emma hugs the doll with a prosthetic leg. Credit: Facebook / Courney Bennett

Emma's mother, Courtney, then read a letter about the doll's journey, which had been shipped to New York to be fitted with a prosthetic leg.

The doll was made with the help of A Step Ahead Prosthetics, who fitted the American girl doll with a custom-made, hand-painted prosthetic leg fabricated in the same shop where real prosthetic limbs are made for its patients.