How social media gave rise to fraudulent wellness influencers like Belle Gibson

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What is fact and what is fiction in Netflix’s Apple Cider Vinegar?

A new Netflix series dramatises the real-life story of Belle Gibson, the Australian wellness influencer who built an empire off the back of a non-existent brain tumour. Helen Coffey sorts reality from fantasy by digging into the bizarre true events that inspired the show

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How social media gave rise to fraudulent wellness influencers like Belle Gibson

Warning: This article contains spoilers for Apple Cider Vinegar. The story of Belle Gibson, ex-wellness influencer and convicted fraudster, is only the tip...

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By Madeline Holcombe, CNN Netflix’s new series “Apple Cider Vinegar” certainly takes a swipe at wellness influencers, but the Western medical system isn’t safe from criticism, either. The show is a dramatization of the story of Belle Gibson, a convicted Australian fraudster who claimed to have terminal brain cancer and is played by Kaitlyn Dever, and the impact she had by selling books and an app claiming clean eating would cure her. A fictional…

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New Belle Gibson documentary reveals how cancer patients were conned

After receiving a devastating breast cancer diagnosis in the prime of her life, Kate Thomas fell into Belle Gibson's intoxicating web of lies.

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Apple Cider Vinegar is an Australian television drama miniseries that premiered in 2025 by Netflix. Produced by See-Saw Films, the series stars Kaitlyn Dever and Alycia Debnam-Carey, who interpetate Belle Gibson and Milla Blak. Alycia Debnam-Carey’s character is diagnosed with rare cancer and faces the possibility of amputating her arm, and desperate, resorts to the Hirsch Institute in Mexico, where she undergoes a strict diet of juices and coff…

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She became famous when she claimed that she had defeated cancer with natural treatments, which led her to launch a successful application and a book. However, in 2015, he admitted that he never had cancer, which sparked the scandal.