A woman identified as Kira Cousins has gone viral online after being accused of faking a full-term pregnancy and pretending to give birth, later presenting a realistic doll as her newborn baby on social media.
The situation began to unfold in early October when several Facebook users shared posts alleging that Cousins had fabricated her pregnancy. According to those claims, she held a gender reveal party, accepted baby shower gifts, and told friends and family that she had given birth to a baby girl named Bonnie-Leigh.
A woman who claimed to be good friends with Kira, Neave Mcrobert, said: “She received A LOT of presents for her “baby doll” anyway no one thought for a second that she wasn’t pregnant, or lying to everyone!
“She didn’t let anyone touch the baby not even me, when she was in my house, but we thought she’s just being an overprotective mum!” Mcrobert added.
Cousins’ Facebook page, which has since circulated widely online, featured posts announcing the supposed birth, including photos of a doll dressed as a baby in a car seat and bouncer. One post read, “Miss Bonnie-Leigh Joyce Gardner. Born 10/10/25 @ 2:46am. 5lbs 4oz,” while another showed the doll wrapped in blankets with the caption, “All warm and wrapped up today, equally as cute.”
In follow-up posts, Cousins, reportedly from Airdrie, near Glasgow, in Scotland, described her “daughter” as being diagnosed with congenital heart defects and undergoing specialist care.
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One lengthy statement claimed the baby had an atrioventricular septal defect and would require open-heart surgery, thanking the “midwife’s and sonographers” and asking others to “respect privacy on both sides of the family.”
Messages allegedly sent by Cousins to the child’s presumed father were also shared online, in which she told him that “something happened to Bonnie-Leigh” before later stating that “Bonnie-Leigh died.” In the texts, the man appeared confused and demanded answers, saying he had been “left in the dark for long enough.”
Other screenshots from the account showed her responding to growing backlash after family members reportedly confronted her. In one post, she wrote, “This is genuinely the last I’m saying in this as this is mine and my baby girl’s life now. Do not think bad of me when u don’t know what’s going on behind closed doors.”
Later, she appeared to acknowledge that relatives had discovered the truth, writing that her mother “came into my room and found it to be a doll,” and that she had since been “sat down and asked what had happened earlier in my pregnancy.”
The allegations have since spread rapidly across Facebook and TikTok, with multiple users reposting the messages and screenshots as evidence. At the time of writing, there has been no public statement from local authorities, and no official confirmation of any investigation.
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