The world is totally obsessed with a random girl from Scotland who faked an entire pregnancy, and she’s now shared a statement explaining exactly how she got caught.
Kira Cousins duped her friends, family and even the baby’s own “dad” Jamie into believing she was pregnant with a fake bump, then continued the elaborate rouse after the baby was “born” earlier in October using a realistic-looking reborn doll. She named it Bonnie Leigh.
The entire thing was outed by Kira’s’ cousin, Neave McRobert, on TikTok. In a viral video that’s now had more than four million views, she claimed that the fake plot was uncovered by Kira’s own mum, who found the doll in her bedroom.
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KIRA COUSINS AND BONNIE-LEIGH
She had supposedly become suspicious after the baby was “born” as Kira would never let anyone touch the baby, and she didn’t see it move. Now, the 23-year-old has shared her own TikTok statement explaining the moment she was caught titled: “Discovering the doll.”
“In my own words, let’s set this straight for the aunt or cousin that seems to be giving it bell and tinker thinking they know. I was still in bed when my own mother came into my room, stormed in and found it to be a doll and shouted downstairs. Prior to this it’s true I had been keeping myself away from literally everyone, went into my own bubbles, didn’t want anyone around me at all,” she said.
“The next I know I was sitting against my door wouldn’t come down to be confronted by all the family that had been assembled. I WAS NEVER IN THE SHOWER OR TOILET!!! My family then sent me down and asked me what would happen earlier in my pregnancy which I will come out on a dress when I’m also ready to die for one minute, think either they let me away with half of this. THEY HAVEN’T.”
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She also confirmed that none of her family or Jamie’s family knew the pregnancy was fake, and said: “While I’m not condoning any behaviour led by myself, I’d like to clear some things up for the people who were involved.”
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According to Neave, Kira’s mother had bought a £1,000 pram for the baby. A source close to the family told the Mail Online: “Her mum bought a pram for her, £1,000, her gran bought car seats and everything, one of her cousins from Wales supposedly sent her £500. She’s getting all this money.”
“I don’t know where she is now, but apparently some people say she’s still floating about other people say she’s left the country. I honestly don’t think the family knew. The very first post she put up, Bonnie-Leigh born such and such and all the rest of it had people commenting.”
Kira has posted many more statements online apologising for faking the pregnancy. In one, she said: “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. I know how bad it is. I just didn’t know how to stop once I started.”
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