A young woman in Scotland has admitted to faking an entire pregnancy and attempting to pass off a silicone doll as her newborn baby.
The story has left people stunned after the truth exploded across social media.
Kira Cousins, 22, issued a public apology on Tuesday after her elaborate lie was uncovered. The hoax spread rapidly online, with friends and family reacting in disbelief.
“I’m so sorry,” she wrote in a now-deleted Instagram story obtained by the Daily Record.
“I wasn’t pregnant. There was no baby. I made it up and kept it going way too far. I faked scans, messages, a whole birth story, and acted like a doll was a real baby.”
A lie that fooled everyone
Cousins managed to convince those closest to her that she was pregnant, including the man she claimed was the baby’s father.
She told people she had given birth to a baby girl named Bonnie-Leigh Joyce on October 10.
To sell the story, Cousins wore a growing prosthetic bump and even threw a lavish gender reveal party in the weeks leading up to the supposed birth.
Photos shared online showed her smiling and cradling her stomach throughout the fake pregnancy.
She also posted images claiming to be ultrasound scans and told people doctors had detected a heart defect in the baby. The level of detail helped keep the lie going far longer than anyone expected.
Cousins later claimed she gave birth alone and soon began showing off what she said was her newborn. That “baby” was eventually revealed to be a highly realistic Reborn Doll.
How the hoax finally collapsed
The entire story unravelled when Cousins’ mum reportedly found the doll in her bedroom last week. Just before admitting the truth, Cousins had even told the alleged father that their baby had died.
Once the truth came out, the backlash was immediate. Friends and family branded her a “serial liar” as the story spread across social media.
Some people said they had started to feel uneasy weeks earlier. They claimed no one ever heard the baby cry and that Cousins refused to let anyone hold or touch the newborn.
“The doll could move”
In her apology, Cousins tried to explain how she managed to fool so many people. She insisted the doll looked realistic enough to deceive anyone not actively questioning it.
“In everyone else’s defense, the doll could move. You could change the facial features, arms and legs,” she wrote.
“You could feed the doll making it ‘pee or poo’. So when no one is close to the doll, it does look real. No one was looking at my ‘baby’ expecting it to be a doll.”
The bizarre confession has left many struggling to understand how the situation escalated so far.
For now, the case stands as one of the strangest fake pregnancy stories to surface online in recent years.
Featured image credit: facebook/Kira Cousins
