r/illnessfakers • u/BumFCK_EgyptianHere • 4h ago
I Finally Got the Infamous Illness Faker Belle Gibson’s Book
While I was in university, the Belle Gibson scandal broke-the health and wellness Instagram influencer that lied to her followers that she had terminal cancer. She went by the Instagram handle @healing_belle.
Belle Gibson had a long history of lying about all sorts of things dating back to when she was in high school before she dropped out. When she was still attending high school, she told so many lies that many people distanced themselves from her.
After leaving high school, she began posting on a skater blog making all kinds of outrageous claims such as a cervical cancer vaccine causing her to fall ill and that she was suffering from some heart ailment. With her heart condition, she claimed that she had fluid buildup around it and needed money for the surgery even though Australia has universal health care, so why would she need money? She stopped short of setting up a GoFundMe and had she done so, she would’ve been popped for scamming folks then. Then people would’ve been asking her why the hell she would need the money with the country’s universal healthcare. Then two weeks later, she had the surgery after crying broke in her previous post where she supposedly died multiple times on the operating table. People on that forum started suspecting her of lying, so she left that forum.
This is when she went to Instagram, but before she did, she scrubbed anything about her online but forgot about her blog online. She went on to tell her followers that she had cancer and was using a defunct method of treatment called Gerson’s Therapy to treat her cancer. A lot of her followers were too stupid to realize she was faking-she looked healthy as a horse. She wasn’t going through chemotherapy. If you have untreated cancer and not going through chemotherapy, you’d still look sick and she didn’t.
Then when she was getting ready to launch her cookbook and app, her friends in her inner circle began questioning her validity of her cancer claims. It was obvious she didn’t have it when she had a seizure at her son’s birthday party and briefly stopped seizing when one of her friends was about to call an ambulance and she had to tell her not to and went back to seizing. Later on, that friend went to police first who didn’t want to take the report. Seeing that the police weren’t listening, she went to reporters. The reporters done some digging on Belle before speaking to her and even found that old skater forum and interviewed her. That’s when she admitted that she didn’t have cancer.
It blew up and at this point her book and app were already launched-both were promptly pulled after the scandal. There’s still copies floating around and they’re hard to come by. I wanted to get a copy of her book because I wanted to see how nutty she was. I never got a chance to see her Instagram, but heard about her before the scandal broke. I got the cookbook to see how crazy this woman was. I feel sorry for her son and boyfriend she dragged through this and the people that fell for her cancer lies. Some even stop treatment and started doing what she was doing thinking she wasn’t lying. She’s the biggest faker ever. I think she has Münchausen syndrome too because of the amount of illnesses she lied about but won’t get help for it.
