Woman who faked baby with plastic doll admits faking scans and birth story 'I f***** up'

The woman embroiled in the fake baby scandal has taken to social media to address the shocking scam. Kira Cousins, 22, stands accused of deceiving her nearest and dearest into believing that her plastic Reborn doll was her newborn daughter, Bonnie-Leigh Joyce. She allegedly wore a prosthetic bump for several months before feigning a solitary birth.

On Tuesday morning, Kira broke her silence on the hoax, writing: "I'm so sorry." In an Instagram story that has since been deleted, she confessed: "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.", reports the Daily Record.

"I know how bad it is, I messed up. I just didn't know how to stop once I started.

"I don't have a proper excuse. I wasn't in a good headspace, but that doesn't make what I did okay.

"I know this is gonna stick with me for a long time and that I've probably lost friends I'll never get back.

"I'm trying to figure myself out and get help because this version of me isn't someone I want to be.

"I know I've ruined a lot of trust and that 'sorry' won't fix everything but it's all I can say right now."

Kira, from Airdrie, proceeded to apologise to all those she deceived.

She added: "I'm so sorry. You were there for me through it all. You cried happy tears, picked me up, brought me places, believed everything I said.

"You didn't deserve to be lied to like that. None of you did. Everyone who came to the gender reveal, all the people who gave me gifts or support - I f****d up and I hurt a lot of people.

"And to everyone I made look bad along the way - the dad and his family especially - I'm sorry.

"I made you out to be horrible people when really, I was the one in the wrong. Completely."

Kira proceeded to defend those who were deceived into believing the doll was genuine.

She continued: "In everyone else's defence, the doll could move. You could change the facial features, arms and legs.

"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."

Kira, who announced she would "explain her actions" and "make apologies" during an Instagram live session at 4pm, had claimed to have delivered her "daughter", weighing 5lbs 4oz, earlier this month, on October 10.

She had shared photographs of baby scans and clips from her extravagant gender reveal celebration in the weeks before the supposed "birth".

Additionally, she uploaded footage of the "baby" moving in her belly, along with numerous pictures of newborn outfits and presents from relatives, including a £1,000 pushchair and a car seat.

She had even posted about medical appointments and alleged that prenatal examinations had detected a cardiac condition in her baby. The "mum" was subsequently exposed online as a "serial liar" after the baby's father discovered that what he believed to be his six-day-old child was actually a doll, and Kira's mother found the prop in her bedroom.

Screenshots of messages reportedly sent by Kira shortly afterwards show her telling the man, who she claimed was Bonnie-Leigh's father, that their baby had passed away.

When approached by the Record on Monday, Kira Cousins initially declined to comment but later shared an online post confirming her actions.

Reborn dolls, like the one used in this shocking scam, can cost anywhere between £30 to £2000 and are designed to resemble real babies. Some models even mimic crying sounds and produce fake tears, while others can wet their nappies.

A family friend of Kira's, who wished to remain anonymous, expressed her surprise at the news to the Record but admitted she had suspected the pregnancy was a hoax all along.

She described Kira as a "serial liar" and said, "I have known her for 10 years, and she has lied about all sorts.

"She came into my house twice before this doll appeared and me and daughter noticed straight away that her bump wasn't real. It was all lumpy.

"She was wearing very thin pyjamas and you could see the straps on her back holding it on.

"When she posted the picture of her supposed baby, it knew looked like a doll but I would have been slaughtered if I had spoken out about all this and said I didn't think any of it was real.

"People would have thought I was crazy."