Health Blogger Admits Faking Terminal Cancer

An Australian "wellness" blogger who built a successful business on claims that she survived terminal cancer has admitted she never had the disease. Bella Gibson, 26, told Australia's Women's Weekly magazine in an interview, "None of it is true."  She created a blog titled 'The Whole Pantry', to detail her battle with cancer which spawned into an app and recipe book.

Suspicions about her claims surfaced after she failed to deliver a promised $300,000 donation to charity.

"I am still jumping between what I think I know and what is reality," Ms Gibson said in the interview, her first since the story was called into question.

  "I have lived it and I'm not really there yet," she said.

She claimed she was treating her malignant brain cancer with whole foods and alternative therapies. This led  to a huge following on her blog, but when asked for medical records, she refused to show them.

"I don't want forgiveness," Ms Gibson told Woman's Weekly, adding that she was speaking out because it was "the responsible thing to do".

"Above anything, I would like people to say, 'Okay, she's human.'"

Belle Gibson's recipe book was withdrawn by Penguin in March and her app was removed by Apple from its online store.







Culled from Women Weekly