Handler was traveling through Europe with her kids when she came across a German build Lily doll that was anything but kid friendly. Lily was actually a high class call girl who began her life as a comic and was sold in smoke shops and adult toy stores. But Handler, who had mentioned the idea of an adult doll to her, Mattel executive husband before he liked it, he finally said, okay. Her husband Elliot, had initially bulked at the idea, but the Lily dolls sold him on the concept