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Kira at the gender reveal party (Image: Facebook)
The woman involved in the fake baby scandal took to social media to find a solution to the shocking scam. Kira Cousins, 22, is accused of misleading her nearest and dearest into believing that her plastic Reborn doll was her newborn daughter, Bonnie-Leigh Joyce. She allegedly wore prosthetic swelling for several months before faking a solo birth.
On Tuesday morning, Kira broke her silence on the hoax, writing: “I’m so sorry.” In a since-deleted Instagram story, she admitted: “I wasn’t pregnant. There was no baby. I made it up and went too far.”
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“I faked scans, messages, made up a birth story and pretended a doll was a real baby,” the Daily Record reported. he reports.
“I know how bad it was, I messed up. I just didn’t know how to stop when I started.”
“I don’t have a proper excuse. I wasn’t high, but that doesn’t mean what I did was okay.
“I know that this will stay with me for a long time and that I have lost friends that I will probably never get back.
Kira touched on the fake baby scandal (Image: undefined)
“I’m trying to understand myself and get help because this version of me is not who I want to be.
“I know I’ve ruined a lot of trust and saying ‘I’m sorry’ won’t solve everything but that’s all I can say right now.”
Kira, from Airdrie, began apologizing to everyone she cheated on.
She added: “I’m so sorry. You were with me through it all. You cried happy tears, you picked me up, you carried me places, you believed everything I said.
“You didn’t deserve to be lied to like that. None of you did. Everyone who exposed their sexuality, everyone who gave me a gift or support — I messed up and hurt a lot of people.”
“And I apologize to everyone I made look bad in the process, especially my father and his family.
“I made you out to be terrible people, but in reality, I was the one at fault. Totally.”
Kira continued to defend people who were led to believe the doll was real.
Kira cheated on her loved ones (Image: Facebook)
He continued: “In everyone’s defence, the doll could move. You could change facial features, arms and legs.
“You can feed the baby by ‘peeing or pooping’.
“So when no one is close to the doll, it looks real. No one was looking at ‘my doll’ expecting it to be a doll.”
Kira, who announced that she would “explain her actions” and “apologize” in the live broadcast at 16:00 on Instagram, claimed that she gave birth to her “daughter” weighing 5 kilos 4 ounces on October 10, earlier this month.
In the weeks before the so-called “birth,” she had shared photos of baby scans and clips from extravagant gender reveal celebrations.
Additionally, she uploaded footage of the “baby” moving around in her belly, along with numerous photos of her newborn clothes and gifts from relatives, including a £1,000 baby stroller and car seat.
She even shared posts about medical appointments and claimed that her baby had a heart condition during prenatal examinations. It was revealed online that the “mother” was a “serial liar” after the baby’s father discovered that his six-day-old child was actually a doll and Kira’s mother found the accessory in her bedroom.
Screenshots of messages Kira reportedly sent shortly afterwards show Bonnie-Leigh telling the man she claimed was her father that their baby was dead.
Kira Cousins initially declined to comment when reached by the Record on Monday but later shared an online post confirming her actions.
Price range of dolls (Image: Facebook)
The reborn dolls used in this shocking scam can cost between £30 and £2000 and are designed to look like real babies. Some models even produce fake tears by imitating crying sounds, while others can wet their diapers.
A family friend of Kira’s, who wished to remain anonymous, told the Record of her surprise at the news, but admitted she suspected the pregnancy was a hoax from the beginning.
He described Kira as a “serial liar” and said: “I’ve known her for 10 years and she’s lied about all kinds of things.
“This baby came to my house twice before she showed up and me and my daughter noticed right away that her bump wasn’t real. Everything was lumpy.
Kira published a statement on TikTok (Image: Facebook)
“He was wearing very thin pajamas and you could see the straps holding him up on his back.
“When she shared the photo of her so-called doll, I knew it looked like a doll, but if I had spoken openly about all of this and said I didn’t think any of it was real, I would have been murdered.
“People would think I was crazy.”
