A young woman has gone viral after announcing her pregnancy, having a gender reveal party, sharing an elaborate birth story, and sending people pictures of a baby — then admitting she was not actually pregnant. A 22-year-old named Kira Cousins had said she gave birth to a girl named Bonnie-Leigh Joyce on October 10, 2025. But later, her loved ones found out that Bonnie-Leigh was actually a Reborn doll.
In addition to having a gender reveal party, Kira also shared fake scans, posed with a fake baby bump, and even claimed that her baby had a hole in her heart.
Loved ones have shared their side of the story.
One friend of Kira’s, Neave McRobert, took to TikTok to share what happened from her perspective. She recalled feeling “so happy” for Kira when she found out she was expecting. At first, when Neave saw Kira’s “baby,” she didn’t have any reason to think the child wasn’t real. “Everybody believed her,” she says in the video. “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.”
In another video, she explained that Kira wouldn’t let people get too close to the baby, but they thought she was just being “an overprotective mom.”
Later, people started getting the sense that something seemed off about the whole thing.
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Neave says she “noticed Kira had deleted every picture and video of Bonnie-Leigh from our chats.” Because that seemed strange, she confronted Kira about it, but Kira didn’t respond. “I then asked the baby’s dad, ‘Is this a doll?'” Neave continues in the TikTok. “And he said, ‘Yes, it’s a doll.’ She even went to the extreme of texting him saying, ‘Bonnie-Leigh died.'”
Understandably, those who supported Kira throughout her pregnancy, like Neave, feel betrayed after finding out the whole thing was fake. “I can’t imagine how he must feel right now and everyone else who has been lied to for months and months,” Neave says.
Kira admitted that she faked the pregnancy.
After the controversy came to light, Kira took to social media to explain herself. She admitted that the pregnancy was not real and said she didn’t have “a proper excuse” for the elaborate lie.
“I wasn’t pregnant,” she wrote via Instagram. “There was no baby. I made it up and kept it going way too far.” She added that she “faked scans, messages, a whole birth story, [and] acted like a doll was a real baby.”
Kira acknowledged in her post that the lie was “bad” and “f—ed up” but said she “just didn’t know how to stop once I started.”
Elsewhere in the statement, she shared that the fake pregnancy has seemingly ruined her relationship with others. “I don’t have a proper excuse,” she wrote. “Yeah I wasn’t in a good headspace but that doesn’t make what I did okay. I know this is gonna stick with me for a long time and that I’ve probably lost friends I’ll never get back. I’m trying to figure myself out and get help because this version of me isn’t someone I wanna be.”
