No bullying!! Honest Confusion.
What’s up with so many accounts on here faking pregnancies? It’s not even believable lies either! I can’t fathom why people would make such posts beyond being attention hungry. The point of this post is to spread awareness especially for those who would become too emotionally attached to these posts without knowing the truth.
If they notice little interaction/belief, they will post about being five weeks pregnant, 18 weeks pregnant, or 24 weeks pregnant back to back. The account shown (lemon1134032550) is one of the rare ones where they try to make a consistent timeline…It is inevitable that they will use maternity pictures from Pinterest to back up their stories.
Don't even get me started on those poorly written birth stories that sound like they were written by a preteen! The fake accounts normally don't bother me, but I've come across an increasing amount where users claim they just miscarried, but a day later post that they are 39 weeks pregnant at 15 and engaged.
It’s sad when people who’ve experienced genuine losses extend compassion to these liars. I don’t intend any ill will towards these accounts (the one shown is just one of many fake pregnancy accounts), but I do hope they stop lying. And more often than not fellow fake pregnancy users support them in comments to deter others from questioning the validity. #attentiontodetail #fakepregnancy #fakeaccount
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it’s actually crazy because the beach photo on the second slide I am 99% sure is a photo of an influencer I follow when she was pregnant with her daughter (& spoiler alert her name isn’t Jade)