Fake "Football Star" Cons British Model for 18 Months, Impregnates Her
It's a classic British tabloid love story: An aspiring model with government-funded fake tits falls for a con man posing as a famous soccer player, and only realizes her mistake 18 months later as she's about to give birth to his baby.
Josie Cunningham, 24, became a British sensation in 2013 after getting the National Health Service to cover the cost of her $8,000 36DD breasts. She's known for stirring up controversy, bragging "sticks and stones may break my bones, but taxpayers will always fund me" on Twitter.
Already a mom of 2 boys, Cunningham milked her 15 minutes by selling tickets to the birth of her third son—who she said she had previously considered aborting so she could appear on Celebrity Big Brother. Cunningham sold 4 tickets, making almost $50,000 in the process.
But that's far from the strangest thing about the circumstances of this baby's arrival.
Just hours before going into labor Sunday, Cunningham revealed that the baby's father, who she said she had known for 18 months, was not the famous soccer player he claimed to be.
She said she met the man on a dating site, and he told her he was Hull City captain Curtis Davies. Although she had her suspicions, and even asked him to "write a pin number on his cock and send me a pic with his face in" to prove his identity, the impostor looked enough like the real Davies to fool her.
"I feel so dirty, ashamed and devastated. I've been completely manipulated by a man for 18 months pretending to be a Premiership footballer," Cunningham tweeted.
"I feel physically fooled by him and had sex with someone who claimed to be someone he wasn't."
"We wasn't in a full blown relationship, so I didn't see him too much, thats how he managed to keep the lie going. I know I'm not that clever," she added.
Cunningham hasn't revealed anything about the man allegedly pretending to be Davies, leading some to suspect her stranger-than-fiction story about the father is actually made up.
The Daily Mail reports that the real Davies, who most likely had no inkling he was being impersonated, lives with his girlfriend, 25-year-old Laura Dearn.
