The woman who used a plastic doll to fake being a new mother has insisted she only resorted to the deception because she could not reveal she suffered a miscarriage.
Kira Cousins received global attention after it was revealed she tricked her boyfriend and family into believing she had been pregnant and given birth.
The 23-year-old former supermarket worker used a prosthetic to pretend her pregnancy was advancing and bought a life-like doll to celebrate the arrival of her ‘daughter’, Bonnie-Leigh Joyce.
Ms Cousins, from Airdrie, has accepted what she did was wrong but insisted she invented the ruse because she was unable
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