After it emerged that a woman had pretended to be pregnant and faked the baby with a lifelike doll, one of the woman’s closest friends has spoken out on the bizarre saga
A close friend of the woman who faked having a baby and used a lifelike doll to feign as her daughter has broken her silence. She added that she was one of the first people to clock the deceit, but was “ignored”.
Thousands have been drawn into the TikTok drama that surrounds 23-year-old Kira Cousins after she fooled her family and friends for months into thinking she had given birth. Since then, people across the world have been perplexed by the bizarre saga, with one user joking it would be turned into a Netflix series.
Now, as the fallout from the reveal continues to deepen, an anonymous source has revealed that this is not the first time that she has tried to fool everyone. It was also unearthed that not even Kira’s closest family members had known about her devious plan.
Speaking to the Scottish Daily Record, Neave McRobert — a close pal of the accused — admitted she had clocked something was up when Kira began to delete photos of her “baby”. Having attended the fake “gender reveal” party, she opened up on the lies that she had been fed by Kira about the fake child’s life.
“I noticed Kira had deleted every picture and video of Bonnie-Leigh from our chats,” Neave explained. “I asked her why and she ignored me.
“I think I asked the baby’s dad, ‘Is this a doll?’ And he said, ‘Yes, it’s a doll’.”
Neave suggested that Kira had panicked about having to keep up the lie that she had given birth to the “baby”, named Bonnie-Leigh, and eventually devised a story to say that she had to be rushed to hospital. In a sick twist, Kira then went on to claim that “Bonnie-Leigh died”, thus bringing an end to the fake child’s life.
Speaking about the impact the deception had on the family, Neave said: “I can’t imagine how he must feel right now and everyone else who has been lied to for months and months. Everybody believed her.
“She posted scan photos and even said the baby had a hole in its heart,” she continued. “Then she texted me saying the baby was born; we were all so happy.”
After being rumbled by her friends and family, Kira would apologise in a now-deleted post on Instagram, admitting that she was never pregnant and had instead “made it all up and kept it going way too far”. She went on to say that she understood the concern and realised how easy it was to trick people into believing her, as she added: “In everyone’s defence, the doll could move.”
In the wake of the scandal, the story has since gone viral on TikTok, with several weighing in to give their takes. One user joked: “This will be the next Netflix drama.”
But speaking to the Daily Mail, one Facebook friend of the accused revealed that this was in fact not the first time that Kira had feigned getting pregnant. According to the anonymous insider, the first incident took place in 2023 and saw Kira steal photos of a child that was not hers.
Instead, it was allegedly the anonymous source’s own child whose photos Kira had taken to pass off on her own, named Aurora-Rae. This came as a huge shock to the woman, who had only ever met Kira “a couple of times”.
The source attempted to reach out to Kira for answers on why she had used the woman’s child’s photos. However, the insider said she knew it would be a lost cause to try to get the information out of her.
“I’ve tried to reach out to Kira for answers but I know she’s never going to answer me and give me a truthful response anyway,” she added. “So I suppose I’m always going to be left in the dark about the rest of what’s gone on.”
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