Kira Cousins, from Airdrie, is accused of deceiving her friends and family by wearing a prosthetic bump before pretending to give birth.
A woman who sparked outrage for faking her pregnancy and pretending a doll was her baby has been accused of carrying out a similar plot before.
Kira Cousins, from Airdrie, is accused of deceiving her friends and family by wearing a prosthetic bump before pretending to give birth and parading a plastic Reborn doll, while claiming it was her daughter named Bonnie-Leigh.
The 22-year-old also allegedly shared fake hospital updates and hosted a gender-reveal party to reveal her “baby” would be a girl – while sharing snaps of presents, including a £1,000 pram.
However, in another twist, one of Kira’s pals has now claimed this is not the first time the supermarket worker has faked a pregnancy.
According to the MailOnline, one of her Facebook friends claimed Kira used “stolen” images of another child, rather than a doll, in 2023 and sent these to certain friends and family members.
The unnamed woman, who was mostly just Facebook pals with Kira, said: “It was my baby. She stole pictures of my child off my Facebook page and passed them off as her own.”
She claimed that, two years ago, another friend forwarded her screenshots of messages sent by Kira with a “picture of her daughter”. The unnamed woman said: “My friend said, ‘isn’t this your daughter?'”
Kira’s Facebook friend claimed that picture was of her own little girl and said she felt “sick” after seeing the messages. The unnamed woman said her partner saw their daughters pictures on TikTok with people asking if Kira had faked another pregnancy in 2023 and used dolls again too. She said: “I then commented on Facebook that it wasn’t a doll. This was my daughter.”
A friend of the supermarket worker said Kira messaged her in 2023 to say she had a baby girl named Aurora Rae and asked her to be the “girl’s” godmother before sending over pictures of a baby.
The unnamed woman said: “I asked how many photos she had been sent. She said she’d received about 15 or 20 pictures from Kira, starting with images taken from the hospital bed when “her” baby was born, up until she was maybe four or five months old.” This woman said every picture in those screenshots were ones she had posted of her own daughter on Facebook.
This woman said she has tried to reach out to Kira for answers but added “she’s never going to answer me and give me a truthful response anyway”.
Kira was accused of lying about her pregnancy this year when the baby’s “dad” discovered six-day-old Bonnie-Leigh was a doll when her mum found the prop in her bedroom. Screenshots of messages reported to have been sent by Kira shortly afterwards appear to show her telling the man she claimed was Bonnie-Leigh’s dad that their baby had died.
In a statement shared on TikTok she wrote: “In my own words let’s set this straight. I was in bed when my mother came into my room and found it to be a doll. Prior to this, I had been keeping myself away from literally everyone.
“The next thing I know, I was confronted by all the family. Don’t for one minute think they let me away with this, they haven’t. And none of them knew. Neither did the dad and his family.”
Kira refused to comment when contacted by our sister title the Daily Record.
Pal Neave McRobert said suspicions first arose after loved ones noticed no one had heard the “baby” cry and Kira refused to let anyone touch her as she claimed Bonnie-Leigh had recently visited Wishaw General Hospital for checks due to ill-health. In a video statement on October 16, Neave said: “I noticed Kira had deleted every picture and video of Bonnie-Leigh from our chats.
“I asked her why and she ignored me. I then asked the baby’s dad ‘Is this a doll?’ and he said, ‘Yes, it’s a doll’. She even went to the extreme of texting him saying, ‘Bonnie-Leigh died’. 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 had a gender reveal, she posted scan photos and even said the baby had a hole in its heart. Then she texted me saying the baby was born. We were all so happy.” Reborn dolls, which are designed to look like real-life babies, like the one used in the ruse retail between £30 to £2000.
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