What happens when your health and wellness advice comes from a fraudster?
Inspired by a true story, the limited Netflix series, Apple Cider Vinegar, is based on the book by Beau Donelly and Nick Toscano, The Woman Who Fooled the World.
Belle Gibson convinced the world she had healed herself from terminal brain cancer with a healthy diet. She built a global business based upon her claims. There was just one problem – she’d never had cancer.
Suddenly, journalists uncovered the truth- this hero of the wellness world, with over 200,000 followers, international book deals, and a best-selling smartphone app, was a fraud. She had lied about having cancer – to her family and friends, to her business partners and publishers, and to the hundreds of thousands of people, including genuine cancer survivors, who were inspired by her Instagram posts.
Now a stars Kaitlyn Dever as Belle Gibson, an Australian wellness influencer who claims to have cured her terminal brain cancer through health and wellness. Sounds unlikely? That’s because it is. As it turns out, Belle has never actually been diagnosed with – or cured of – the malignant brain tumor that she shares with the world through social media, the mobile app she develops, and its companion cookbook.
Read a book review of The Woman Who Fooled the World
