The "mum" at the centre of the fake baby scandal in Lanarkshire has shared a series of posts addressing the scam that shocked social media

Kira Cousins has been accused of duping those closest to her into believing her plastic Reborn doll was her tiny daughter, named Bonnie-Leigh Joyce, after wearing a prosthetic bump for months before pretending to give birth alone.

Opening on the hoax on Tuesday morning, the 22-year-old wrote: "I'm so sorry."

In a now deleted Instagram story, she said: "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.

"I know how bad it is, I f****d up. I just didn't know how to stop once I started.

"I don't have a proper excuse. I wasn't in a

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