“I’m so sorry … . .“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”

Kira Cousin from Scotland, admitted to faking her entire pregnancy, and trying to pass off a silicone doll as her newborn

Cousins, 22, issued a groveling apology on Tuesday after her massive hoax was uncovered and started spreading rapidly across social media

Kia’s apology came after her mother discovered her new granddaughter was only merely a hyper-realistic silicone doll

The ‘baby father’ outed her online as a “serial liar,” that their supposed six-day-old baby was actually a doll

Kia Cousins from Scotland had a gender reveal party for the ‘child she birthed’ after wearing a prosthetic bump. She has apologized for deceiving her loved ones into believing her plastic Reborn doll was her baby girl

A young woman in Scotland who faked motherhood with the aid of a hyper-realistic plastic doll to host Instagram live is asking that she forgiven after her sham was exposed.
Kira Cousins has admitted to faking her entire pregnancy, to the point of trying to pass off a silicone doll as her newborn. The 22-year-old, issued a groveling apology on Tuesday after her massive hoax was uncovered and started spreading rapidly across social media: “I’m so sorry,” she wrote in a now-deleted Instagram post.
“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.”
Cousins who through the con sported a growing prosthetic bump to fuel the ruse and held a lavish gender reveal party in the weeks before the “birth,” succeeded in fooling those closest to her, including the man she claimed was the baby’s father, into believing she was pregnant, culminating in the birth of her daughter, who she named Bonnie-Leigh Joyce, on October 10, 2025.

Cousins admitted that she fabricated the pregnancy, birth, and acted like a doll which “You could feed, making it ‘pee or poo’,” as a real baby

Photos on social media captured Cousins smiling and posing as she cradled the bump throughout the so-called pregnancy.
As part of the elaborate hoax, Cousins also posted images of scans and even claimed tests had detected a heart defect in the baby.
Cousins then claimed she gave birth alone and promptly started showing off the newborn, which  ultimately turned out to be a Reborn Doll, a hyper-realistic prop.
The head scratching sham ground to a halt when Kia’s mother found the doll in her bedroom last week.
Leading up to being found out, the ‘new mom’ even posted about hospital appointments and claimed ante-natal tests had picked up a heart defect in her baby.
She was subsequently outed online as a “serial liar” after the baby’s dad found out that what he thought was his six-day-old baby was actually a doll and Kira’s mother found the prop in her bedroom.
In screenshots of messages reported to have been sent by Kira shortly afterwards, she appears to tell the man, who she claimed was Bonnie-Leigh’s dad, that their baby had died. 

Friends and loved ones have branded Kia Cousins a “serial liar.” after she used prosthetic bump, fake scans and a hyper-realistic doll to fool them that she’d experienced the rigors of pregnancy, becoming a young mom

The story quickly spilled out on social media as friends and loved ones branded her a “serial liar.”
Some loved ones have since claimed they started becoming suspicious when no one had heard the baby cry and that Cousins wouldn’t let anyone touch the newborn.
In her apology the pregnancy faker defended those she conned into believing the doll was actually real.
“In everyone else’s defense, the doll could move. You could change the facial features, arms and legs,” she said.
“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.”

Reborn Dolls which can retail for as much as $2000 of dollars, are hyper-realistic baby replicas used as a form of therapy, but became part of trend where people pass the dolls off as real children, even breastfeeding and snapping photos with their doll in public

Reborn Dolls, which can retail for as much as $2,000, are hyper-realistic baby replicas that are often used as a form of therapy for those struggling with infertility, infant loss or dementia. However, as exemplified, the dolls have become the essential prop in a social media trend where people pass the dolls off as real children, showcasing themselves breastfeeding and flaunting their ‘babies’ to the public.