I just love that no matter what scenario is the correct one of what's going on with this dude, they're all batshit insane.
Christ, you've got that right. I just finished reading this thread, and... what the fuck is going on? Every alternative offers more questions:
* If Ashleigh is fake/a realdoll, why are there real government records that match her name, a blog that extends back before she allegedly met Peter, and apparently real Facebook accounts for her family that seem to think this is legit? If it's a con, it's a long, careful con. (To be fair, that Facebook post from his mother-in-law seems fake as hell. Who names their son-in-law by name in a post like that and otherwise belabors the point that much?)
* If Ashleigh is a real person but doesn't actually live with Peter and may or may not be married to him, why does her family assume they all live together? This may actually be the most logical solution -- "she married Peter for a green card/to cover up an accidental pregnancy by someone else/whatever reason, he married her so that he could brag about having a hot nerd wife, she's lying to her family and supplying Peter with a weird supply of fakey photos to help build legitimacy" is a convoluted chain of events, but it's not actually as fucking insane as the realdoll theory, and it requires way less effort from Peter. That said, there's still one issue...
* If Ashleigh and Peter are actually married, especially if they actually live together and are a family, why can't anyone produce even a single not-fakey photo or video? If Peter and Ashleigh live together, it beggars belief that they can't cut a quick 15-second video where they and the baby are all in the frame at once and all obviously human. Even if they don't live together and the marriage is a sham, you'd think they'd at least prop things up with a wedding photo and a few candids where they're together, instead of Peter photoshopping himself into Ashleigh's extremely awkward-looking selfies. (Hell, don't INS officials expect these things as part of the process of demonstrating the validity of a marriage to get a green card?)
I think what really gets me about this is that, if Ashleigh is fake, this is an incredibly high-effort fake job: taking a name that would show up in real Scottish government records, creating social-media accounts with substantial activity that goes back years, setting up a realistic doll and doing stop-motion videos... and all this coming from a guy who, a year or two ago, couldn't be bothered to differentiate between Korea and Japan in his fake-girlfriend photos and wrote "dialogue" that sounded like him talking to himself. Unless he's gotten massively better at this or was playing a long con all along, it honestly seems most likely that there's at least a real Ashleigh involved in this, even if her photos are massively 'shopped and she and Peter won't do anything even slightly convincing. It's bizarre even by the standards of Internet performance art, that's for sure.
Tangential speculation time: is it possible Ashleigh is photoshopping her pictures so rabidly because of baby weight? I know every woman's body is different, but it isn't remotely plausible for her to have gained all her weight in the boobs and nothing in her hips or waist, and like someone mentioned, her waist looks even smaller than it did pre-pregnancy. If we assume that Ashleigh really is that self-conscious (and that Ashleigh really did have a baby, because who knows how far down the rabbit hole goes), that might explain the insane 'shopping. A little. Kind of. Seriously, what the hell?