7 women on the biggest lie they've ever gotten away with.

Think you’re honest? Apparently we lie over 10 times per week.

Confession: I used to be a chronic liar. I would exaggerate everything. From blaming my brother for doing something that I obviously did as a child, to what I got up to on the weekend. I think I just wanted to embellish my not-so-exciting life.

The tipping point came when I was 16-years-old. My friends and I were at a house party, we’d had a few drinks like the naughty under-agers we were and while sitting on the beach, started sharing stories of what we’d done over the winter break.

I told my friends that I’d spent the night with my friend and her new friends (true). We’d driven round listening to Imogen Heap’s ‘Hide and Seek’ on repeat for hours on end (also true). I then told them, in my Passion Pop-induced-daze, that me and her new guy friend had fooled around; the ultimate teenage brag. Also (LIES).

Then, when I arrived at school on Monday, teenage me had unknowingly and unwillingly become the school “slut”.

That’s right, before Easy A was released to a global audience, it was my life.

My friends were kind enough to inform me that I was now known as the girl who’d had a one-night-stand with a guy she didn’t know, on a beach. At high school, this felt like a life destroying reputation – the only thing worse would have been admitting it never happened at all…

According to an article in the Telegraph, the average person tells 10 lies per week. Not even kidding. It’s easy to see how these lies slip off our tongues.

“I swear I didn’t have some of your chocolate!”

“You definitely can not see that pink g-string through your white skirt!”

“I can’t sorry, I’ve already made plans.”

These lies happen with such ease that we don’t even realise it’s happened.

Before you continue, here are some other liar confessions:

Dr Paul Seager, a senior psychology lecturer who specialises in deceptive psychology, told the Telegraph it’s healthy to tell lies.

“To keep society running smoothly, we need to tell white lies. If your partner comes home with their latest piece of artwork and says, ‘What do you think of this?’, it shows they want support. Whether you like it or not, you’re going to say it’s nice.”

So we now have permission to lie, right? Yeah, no. Lying can go beyond a few here or there into pathological territory.

Try this: “I have to stop lying so much and trust people.”

“Some people live in a fantasy world and don’t tell the truth – people who for various disturbed functions in their psychological make up feel the need to live a false existence,” says psychiatrist, Dr. Cosmo Hallstrom.

“Psychopaths, for example, have no remorse or conscience. They focus on the short-term gain, they have no guilt and they live for the moment impulsively and without thinking of the consequences.”

Well, that took a dark turn very quickly.

What’s the biggest lie you’ve ever gotten away with? Let us know in the comments.