Kira Cousins shared this photo of her “daughter” to Facebook. Photo \/ Kira Cousins<\/p>\n
Neave McRobert, a friend of Cousins, posted to Facebook and TikTok to detail the hoax.<\/p>\n
She said while \u201ceveryone got conned by\u201d Cousins, she felt \u201cworse because I\u2019m one of the few people to meet this baby\u201d.<\/p>\n
McRobert claimed Cousins had gone so far as to text the \u201cfather\u201d, Jamie Gardner, to tell him Bonnie-Leigh had died when the deception was uncovered.<\/p>\n
Another family friend told the Daily Record her suspicions had been raised when Cousin visited her home and she saw her \u201clumpy\u201d bump. <\/p>\n
\u201cWhen she posted the picture of her supposed baby, I knew it looked like a doll but I would have been slaughtered if I had spoken out about all this and said I didn\u2019t think any of it was real.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Daily Record reports Cousins has now apologised for the hoax in a lengthy Instagram post.<\/p>\n
\u201cI wasn\u2019t pregnant. There was no baby. I made it up and kept it going way too far,\u201d she wrote.<\/p>\n
\u201cI faked scans, messages, a whole birth story, and acted like a doll was a real baby.\u201d<\/p>\n
Cousins went on to claim she \u201cjust didn\u2019t know how to stop\u201d and admitted she had \u201cf***ed up\u201d, apologising to the father and his family for the lies.<\/p>\n
\u201cI made you out to be horrible people when really, I was the one in the wrong. Completely.\u201d<\/p>\n
She also responded to criticisms of her victims, stating the doll was able to realistically move and mimic cries. <\/p>\n
The Daily Mail reports a police complaint has not currently been lodged in relation to the incident. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kira Cousins shared this photo of her “daughter” to Facebook. Photo \/ Kira Cousins Neave McRobert, a friend…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":93560,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[16489,95,6794,69679,68189,69675,156,69677,69674,2109,2209,69676,78,296,69680,111,139,69,5994,6115,49926,69678,1354],"class_list":["post-93559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-admits","tag-and","tag-baby","tag-believing","tag-doll","tag-elaborate","tag-entertainment","tag-faked","tag-faking","tag-family","tag-father","tag-hoax","tag-in","tag-into","tag-lifelike","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-pregnancy","tag-real","tag-scottish","tag-tricking","tag-woman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93559\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}