The Absolute Craziest Lengths Women Have Gone In Order To Fake A Pregnancy
Faked pregnancies may seem like the stuff of Hollywood melodramas and beach reads, but they happen in real life more often than you might think. There are plenty of reasons why women have faked being pregnant, whether they wanted to get back at an ex or were looking for money.
These fake pregnancy stories have to be read to be believed. Many of the women don't seem to know what pregnancy is really like - if they did, perhaps they wouldn't be pretending to carry triplets for 10 months or disemboweling a pet dog to fake a miscarriage. Some faked pregnancies have even extended into fake childbirth.
Prepare yourself: These extreme fake pregnancies were motivated by everything from sheer pettiness to downright derangement. None of them are likely to inspire much sympathy for the people who pretended to have - or lose - a baby.
Anita Parker Disemboweled Her Dog To Fake A Miscarriage
Anita Parker was accused of committing a despicable act in May 2016. She had pretended to be pregnant in an attempt to get her estranged husband back but soon realized there was no way she could stretch the ruse out forever. Parker disemboweled her pet Chihuahua, Dolly, and smeared the dog's guts around her bedroom to fake a miscarriage.
Parker was taken to the hospital, where the staff told her husband that she had never been pregnant. Soon after, he discovered the dog's body in the garbage. Parker was charged with felony animal cruelty.
Leslie Wilfred Pretended To Carry Twins, Then Said They Were Stillborn
On November 10, 2008, Leslie Wilfred called her family from the hospital where she was supposedly giving birth to tell them the twins she was carrying had died. She said they had taken a single breath before dying, and returned home with a pair of urns.
The whole family mourned the loss, but the babies had never existed. Wilfred's tubes had been tied before her marriage to her second husband. Experts later determined that the woman had Munchausen syndrome, a condition in which someone invents medical problems due to severe emotional difficulties.
Yesenia Sesmas Faked A Pregnancy And Killed A Woman
A Texas woman named Yesenia Sesmas faked a pregnancy for several months before November 2016. That's when she traveled to Kansas, murdered a friend named Laura Abarca-Nogueda, and stole her newborn daughter.
The crime caught up with her quickly; Sesmas was arrested a few days later, and the baby was returned to the victim's relatives. In July 2018, Sesmas was sentenced to 55 years in prison.
A Woman Faked A Pregnancy, Then Returned The Surrogate Baby
In April 2017, an Italian woman allegedly decided to purchase another woman's baby after faking her own pregnancy with a false belly she bought on the internet. There was one small hitch in her plan: The baby was biracial. Realizing that she would be unable to explain the baby's ethnicity to her family and friends, the woman returned the infant three days later.
Seeing as surrogacy is illegal in Italy, she wound up getting arrested. The baby's mother and a man who helped put together the baby-buying deal were also brought in.
A Teenage Girl Faked Being Pregnant With Triplets For 10 Months
One Michigan teen used the power of the web to fake a pregnancy for a staggering 10 months. With the aid of FakeABaby.com, the girl convinced her boyfriend that they were expecting triplets. She had ultrasounds and everything. Their families and the community were supportive, giving gifts and donating money to the couple.
But after 10 months, the families became understandably suspicious. Then, a woman in a Facebook group called "Moms of Triplets" alerted the family to the fact that the ultrasound pictures were from a website dedicated to faking pregnancies.
The girl's story unraveled, though she maintained she had been pregnant; she said she lost the babies at six weeks.
One Woman Actually Faked Having A Baby
Writing for XO Jane, an anonymous author claimed she figured out that her friend was lying about having a baby. The author noted how "Leigh" allegedly staged the pregnancy for four months and, after supposedly giving birth, started posting photos online. Leigh only posted photos of the infant alone, never of her and the baby together. One especially professional shot seemed suspect, so the author ran a reverse Google image search:
Within .3 seconds, my search turned up professional photos of a popular blogger and her newborn daughter. On the blogger’s Instagram account, I found all the rest of the photos Leigh had passed off as her own.
The concerned author contacted the police to do a wellness check on Leigh, who responded by deleting the author on all her social media accounts - along with all references to the baby.