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A so-called young "mom” in Scotland has admitted to bizarrely faking her entire pregnancy — and even trying to pass off a silicone doll as her newborn.

Kira Cousins, 22, 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 story obtained by the Daily Record.

“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 had managed to fool her loved ones — including who she claimed was the baby’s father — into believing she was pregnant and had given birth to a little girl, who she named Bonnie-Leigh Joyce, on Oct. 10.

Cousins sported a growing prosthetic bump to fuel the ruse and held a lavish gender reveal party in the weeks before the “birth.”

The wild sham came crashing down, though, when her mom found the doll in her bedroom last week.

Just prior to coming clean, Cousins went as far as telling the supposed father that their newborn had died.

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 bizarre apology, Cousins defended those she’d fooled 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.”

Some have accused Erika Kirk of using forgiveness as a political tool, but anyone who actually listened to her statements knows her words came from faith, not hatred.

Forgiveness doesn’t erase grief or justice — it simply refuses to let bitterness take over the heart. Do you really think a woman mourning her husband would fake forgiveness just to ‘get back’ at anyone?


I personally think Erika Kirk’s decision to forgive her husband’s killer isn’t about politics or pretending — it’s about faith. In her own words, she said that forgiveness was the only way to keep hate from taking root in her heart, and that Charlie would have wanted her to lead with grace, not vengeance. Forgiveness doesn’t excuse what happened; it’s a declaration that evil doesn’t get the final word. She chose to honor her husband by living the values he believed in — courage, conviction, and mercy — even toward someone who didn’t deserve it. Condemning the faith of a grieving widow doesn’t prove moral strength — it reveals a heart hardened by anger. Forgiveness isn’t a political act; it’s an act of obedience and love. Erika’s response reminds us that faith can transform suffering into a testimony of grace.

At the end of the day, forgiveness reveals the condition of our hearts — whether we’re ruled by anger or guided by grace.