Let's be honest, women have been faking pregnancies for ages but cases of using a balloon to show that you are with child are almost unheard of. That is why we are all here.

A woman has found herself in hot soup after she was caught hiding a balloon in her clothes under the guise of being pregnant.

Purity Kiritu was admitted at Othaya District Hospital on Wednesday at 7:30 pm after pretending that she was about to go into labor.

After preparing a delivery room in readiness for her bundle of joy, the nurses the were shocked to find a red inflated balloon neatly tucked under her clothes.

It is then that they decided to inform the local police who came to the hospital and arrested the woman. The balloon was not spared either as it was taken in as evidence.

The 21-year-old woman reportedly travelled from Nairobi to Murang'a four days ago to stay with her mother-in-law Ms. Josephine Wairimu where she would deliver.

Other reports say that she was under pressure from her husband who works as a boda boda operator to give him a child.

Speaking anonymously, a police officer said the fake pregnancy was just a ploy to steal a baby from the hospital or seeking to be referred to Pumwani Maternity Hospital which has been nicknamed 'baby kiosk'.