The real-life story of Instagram con artist Belle Gibson that inspired Netflix's Apple Cider Vinegar
The real-life story of Instagram con artist Belle Gibson that inspired Netflix's Apple Cider Vinegar
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Gibson’s story sounds like the plot of a heartbreaking movie. A young, beautiful woman is diagnosed with terminal brain cancer and given four months to live. Worn down by two months of chemotherapy and radiation, she decides to abandon traditional medicine and take matters into her own hands, instead focusing on healthy eating and alternative treatments. Against all odds, she starts to recover. Somehow, her alternative techniques seem to actually work. Miraculously, she gets pregnant with her first child.
If this all sounds a bit far-fetched, that’s because it is. As it turned out, Gibson did not “cure” her cancer. In fact, she didn’t have cancer at all. One of the original wellness bloggers, what happened with Australian influencer Belle Gibson is a bizarre tale that’s full of outlandish claims, lies, and deception.
So compelling is her story that it’s now the subject of an upcoming Netflix drama, Apple Cider Vinegar, due for release on 6 February, in which she is played by Kaitlyn Dever. The tagline reads: “This is a true-ish story based on a lie, about the rise and fall of a wellness empire; the culture that built it up and the people who tore it down.” And with similar production to Inventing Anna, the story of fellow scammer Anna Sorokin, it looks set to be a major hit.
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Last year, an ITV documentary Instagram's Worst Con Artist sought to dig into Belle Gibson’s real-life story. It featured interviews with friends and family who spoke on the record for the first time since it was revealed that her story was all a sham. Plus it included footage of Belle in her own words.
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